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It is days away, I know devout vets (and devout greenhorns) often get RPG stuff for Christmas. Anybody expecting anything? I will be getting some books.

Is anybody a member of any good RPG organizations. The ones I researched (RPGA and OGREs Inc.) are both derunct, and WotC*s Adventurer*s League seems stupid. Any suggestions? My friends and I want to join a group.

For anyone who plays on Lichess, I just made an account over there (with the same name), and made a D&D group. It is named The Knights of the Blue Axe, after the name given to the group containing the wielder of Azuredge in Waterdeep. Feel free to join! https://lichess.org/team/the-knights-of-the-blue-axe

Do you play BTB (by the book) or do you use your own house rules when playing D&D? I know in the nearly 40 years I've been playing we've had numerous house rules, some of which have fallen by the wayside. I thought this would be a good place to post and discuss your house rules. I guess the most obvious one is full hit points for first level characters. Another we've adopted is when rolling a new character we don't start recording the stats until the player rolls a 16 or more. Changed the title to include all weird things us DMs do

Hello all, I was thinking about starting an online, forum based D&D 5e game - I posted about it in the Notes, and regimental and glafnazur were our only takers so far, which isn't really enough. If anyone else subsequently comes along and is interested, please post here, and we can review it and see if we have enough to get one started. Cheers ~ Caedrel

So I have tried AD&D 1st and 2nd Forgotten Realms, read a decent amount of Spelljammer, Battlesystem and Ravenloft, and read some DanDWiki 3e homebrew campaigns. I really liked FR, and I want to try the others (maybe excepting the homebrew) What do other people like, and have any of you tried any of these? Also, what are your favorite editions? I think mine is AD&D 2nd (though 3e is very compelling).

Cleric - flail fighter - trusty long sword or sometimes a two handed sword dwarf fighter - battleaxe magic user - dagger I once had a magic user who used a quarter staff and we came across a cage of baby badgers. I thought that they'd make a nice pair of soft gloves so I walked up to them and bashed them on the head with my staff and killed them. Seriously you'd think I'd murdered the pope, a baby and a half a dozen saints by the way the party acted! These normally butch 'put it in front of me and I'll kill it' guys went all soft coz they could picture these baby badgers with their soft brown eyes. I'll tell you those gloves kept my characters hands warm on many a cold nights!

Do you recall the first beastie you saw, the first time you played D&D? Mine was memorable, although not too romantic: an otyugh. (I'm actually pretty sure it was a neo-otyugh, but why split hairs..)

What is everyone's favorite class?

Ok I know the list is probably endless but I'll start us off. Most undead creatures were to be feared due to the possibility of being level drained. I used to hate shambling mounds too as they were immune to most magic and if they hit you with both appendages then you were smothered in 2 - 8 rounds unless it was killed. I mean, the things were immune to fire, lightning caused it to grow and cold was at most half damage and how many people actually had things like Plant Control? Oh and if I remember rightly all weapons did half damage too! Where's the weedkiller............... I hated Cockatrice too as although they didn't do much damage there was always that fear of failing your saving throw and being turned to stone.

I have always had a fascination for dice and other stuff like them, does anyone else feel that way? My current collection (not counting the around 20 lost dice) includes 64 dice: -1 large d20 -1 d30 -1 mini d4 -1 mini d6 -1 mini d8 -2 mini d10s -1 mini d12 -1 mini d20 -7 d4s -6 d6s -7 d8s -11 d10s -8 d 12s -8 d20s -7 Magic: The Gathering life d20s and (not included in the count) -1 deck of Curse of Strahd tarokka cards -3 decks of Bicycle cards -3 DM screens -30+ books -hundreds of maps -1 set of map tiles -a lot of notebooks and binders -over 50,000 pages of notes (at least 5,000 new ones made per each year, I may have a problem) -1 Pokemon coin (d2) -1 bouncy ball (d1) -and 1 googly eye (I listed this because it is kept with my dice) There are also tons of other things that I did not list, does anyone else have a situation like this?

AD&D was sooo much more complicated that the Basic and Expert sets, but I was really glad that race was no longer a "thing" in itself - or that Elves were so much slower in their XP progression. I was listening to a review this week that pointed out some of the parallels between The Keep on the Borderlands and The Village of Hommlet, which I'd never noticed before. I really liked how well fleshed out the village itself was - names of villagers, the different personalities. The moathouse itself was always interesting, as was the final protagonist, Lareth the Beautiful, but there wasn't a lot of it - which can be a good thing if you're not wanting to spend too many sessions on it. The rogue in my group loved his slippers of spider climbing and thought he'd avoid the cockatrices by walking on the roof - in a 10' x 10' corridor, though, they could still attack someone on the roof because they're in an adjacent square: the thing flapped up and struck him anyway, and he was turned to stone. It really established a tone for the group and my friend's power gamey but sometimes getting it wrong sort of method. My main hassle with it was there was such a big gap between this and The Temple of Elemental Evil - this was a 1st-4th level adventure, and the other was a really high level 10th-14th level type adventure, I was never sure what the party should do in between. Lareth was a great opponent, but they would have forgotten all about him by the time they came back around to the same theme.

As wonderful as the Basic set was, it only took you up to 3rd level - hardly scratching the surface! The D&D Expert Set followed While X1 Isle of Dread was okay, I found the mechanics of getting a boat and getting to the island difficult; and I found the ultimate encounter a little disappointing, I absolutely loved X2 Castle Amber I mean, sure, the first part of the adventure in Castle Amber made no sense - the rooms were completely unrelated with no real logical ecosystem to it - but there was so much cool stuff in there, from the very first boxing match with a golem through to the deadly gardens through to the colour coded rooms and the horrible brain collector in the dungeon. And the Amber family! Colourful and crazy and quite deadly, I hadn't read Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber yet but they stood wonderfully apart. I loved the locations in Averoigne but could never flesh out the rest of the land, and the tomb of Stephen was fabulous - the rewards were pretty amazing too. It was just always so hard to fit it in with anything else, though - it's definitely Mystara and doesn't really play that well with Greyhawk or Faerun, which were the later 2 favoured settings for the game. But it was So Much Fun.

I've always been a fan of adventure modules - I've always been the DM, and constructing completely new worlds a la the Malazan Book of the Fallen has never been my thing: I'd much rather fit something together into an overall arc. There will be spoilers in these posts! The red box D&D Basic set was my first ever D&D I loved Jeff Dee's art in particular. B1 In Search of the Unknown had some massive blank spaces for the DM to fill in, and I have to admit that didn't appeal to me. B2 The Keep on Borderlands left the keep itself a bit light on in terms of details, but the caves themselves were complete and I loved it. Will post some more about it later.

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Hello! I'm here because I'm interested in playing and simultaneously learning to play D&D. I'm new to D&D, extremely new, so I have no experience in how this game is played at all! Is this still alive anyways?

An Elf, Human, and Dwarf order a beer. When the beer arrives, a fly lands in each one. The Elf shoves the beer away in distain. The Human flicks the fly away and drinks the beer. The Dwarf picks the fly up by the wings, holding it over his glass and screams, "Spit it all out you little *******!"