Showing posts with label dungeons and dragons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dungeons and dragons. Show all posts
Trashy dance music leads to D&D spoof
I know these things are kind of a dime a dozen, but they did a pretty good job here...
(and they had to use a D6 instead of a D20 to fit the song's cadence, cut 'em some slack!)
Original video for reference!
(and they had to use a D6 instead of a D20 to fit the song's cadence, cut 'em some slack!)
Original video for reference!
The new Dungeons and Dragons Red Box Advert
...is FUCKING METAL!!!
I was watching a show I refuse to admit to watching on Hulu just now and saw an advert for the Dungeons and Dragons red box... and totally had to share.
I was watching a show I refuse to admit to watching on Hulu just now and saw an advert for the Dungeons and Dragons red box... and totally had to share.
Old Skool Nostalgia
I was doing a computer back up and I found some old pdfs of Chainmail and 1st ed D&D (little brown books) that I bought at Drive Through RPG (http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/index.php) back when WOC was selling all the old TSR stuff in pdf several years ago. I was glancing through and I got a bit nostalgic:
Remember when there were only 3 classes (Fighting Man, Magic-User, and Cleric)?
Remember when there were only men, elves, dwarves, and hobbits?
Remember when all weapons only did 1d6?
Remember when there were no prestige classes? No splat books? Green large print character sheets? Only one blue stapled together rulebook?
Those were simpler, magical, times for me. When my imagination filled in what my character carried and no need for an Arms and Equipment Guide or encumbrance . One set of dice (the DM's). No miniatures. No multiple copies of rulebooks and laptops filled with rules. The DM was law. He set my imagination in motion and anything he said was cannon. I lived the adventure in my head. My mind's eye saw my Prince Valiant like fighter (he didn't even have a name) fight terrible goblins and scary animated skeletons each encounter a near-character-death experience. 45 minutes of excitement until I had to get off at my bus-stop. The thrill of my first real game session that lasted an evening! I cherish those first role-playing experiences and miss the simplicity and innocence/nativity of rules. Part of me wishes to go back to 1983...wipe my mind of all things rules, game systems, business of gaming, marketing, popular opinion, media, and movies and to experience it all again for the first time and FEEL the magic again.
Props to the old Skoolers Gygax and Arneson. I met them both before they passed and that I treasure. I even gamed with Dave Arneson back in the day at Origins. They were guys like me just wanting to have fun and experience the magic.
My first D&D book, $2 at the Montgomery Wards mail order damages store:
Old D&D parody
I'm sure this has been posted before but watching the retrojunk D&D commercial reminded me of it.
Old school D&D commercial
It's awesomely cheesy, but I imagine if I'd watched it as a kid it would have looked like the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
Porn Stars Playing D&D
for serious and for reals, not a gimmicky porn vid. totally safe visuals, miiiiildy sketchy language, prolly a PG-13 if it were a movie
March Movie Night
Partly in tribute to the fallen Gary Gygax but mostly because Dave was in a fantasty mood, the theme this month is fantasy, so we're going with Dragonslayer (which I've never seen) and Stardust (which neither Dave nor I have seen, so if it sucks, we take no responsibility). We'll probably open with Stardust. As usual, it's the last Sunday of the month (March 30th), at my place (11205 Bending Bough Trail) starting at 8 PM (although Rock Band starts at 5:30 or 6:00 or whenever people show up, and showing up early is welcomed and encouraged.)
Wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, gimp love slaves that are usually locked in the basement, etc. welcome.
RIP Gary Gygax
www.newsweek.com/id/118775
Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.
Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.
Maybe it'll be cooler in practice?
Because the screenshot previews of the online component of D&D 4th Ed. don't looks so hot.
On the plus side, the game itself looks to be shaping up really nicely.
On the plus side, the game itself looks to be shaping up really nicely.
4.0
So I've gleaned precious little info in regards to the latest revision of D&D. Here are a few new and interesting tidbits I've picked up. Apologies if this is common knowledge:
1) No natural immunities
2) No natural weaknesses
3) Dragons will no longer be capable sorcerors
4) No monks, barbarians, bards, or druids (at first, anyway)
5) When your hit points are cut in half, you reach a stage called 'bloodied', which in some cases grants you (or an NPC, natch) with free interrupt (?) abilities.
6) Yama will be on the cover of Deities & Demigods 4.0
I'm not even sure what all of that means, but thought you guys might be interested. And apparently, WotC sends out updates/changes to the play-testers on a regular basis.
1) No natural immunities
2) No natural weaknesses
3) Dragons will no longer be capable sorcerors
4) No monks, barbarians, bards, or druids (at first, anyway)
5) When your hit points are cut in half, you reach a stage called 'bloodied', which in some cases grants you (or an NPC, natch) with free interrupt (?) abilities.
6) Yama will be on the cover of Deities & Demigods 4.0
I'm not even sure what all of that means, but thought you guys might be interested. And apparently, WotC sends out updates/changes to the play-testers on a regular basis.
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