Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition Release (1 Viewer)

[Buddy Ball 2K3]

Less than a month away! Who's in!?

 

[WampusCat43]

Led a game with the starter set last night. Universal favorable reviews.

 

[Mad Cow]

Just finishing the Dragonspear Castle adventure next week. Hadn't played since my teens. Interesting to play again. We started a couple of months ago.

 

[Freelove]

I mostly only know these rule sets through their implementation in video games. I found 3rd ed. implementations useful, fun, easy to understand, and well integrated into the gaming universe. I found 4th ed. implementations to be a total cluster #### that detracted from play and had little relevance or effect on-screen.

I imagine we'll see these trotted out in some incarnation of BG/NWN/Pool of Radiance/whatever in the not-too-distant future. So I'll be keeping an eye out.

 

[hagmania]

I had never played DnD before Fifth Edition's beta, but was familiar with how p&p gaming worked. This is a very good set of rules IMO.

 

[NewlyRetired]

Have they added tablet/smart phone support so that if you want you don't need pen/paper to keep track of things?

 

[Jobber]

I used to play, way back in the early 80s. I still have a bunch of hardcovers and I think some of my characters.

So how does one get back into D&D? Do I need to wander out to the mall or Reniassance Festival to find players? Maybe I can recruit my kids.

 

[Buddy Ball 2K3]

I used to play, way back in the early 80s. I still have a bunch of hardcovers and I think some of my characters.

So how does one get back into D&D? Do I need to wander out to the mall or Reniassance Festival to find players? Maybe I can recruit my kids.

Getting the kids into it would be key. Being with out kids it would be very tough to explain to my wife that I am going over Mikey's house to play DnD. "

Hey Hun do you know where my dice bag is?"

 

[Evilgrin 72]

I used to play, way back in the early 80s. I still have a bunch of hardcovers and I think some of my characters.

So how does one get back into D&D? Do I need to wander out to the mall or Reniassance Festival to find players? Maybe I can recruit my kids.

Getting the kids into it would be key. Being with out kids it would be very tough to explain to my wife that I am going over Mikey's house to play DnD. "

Hey Hun do you know where my dice bag is?"

"Sure, it's in my purse, where it's been since we got back from our honeymoon."

 

[Evilgrin 72]

I haven't played D&D in about 30 years. Do people really still do the whole pen/paper/dice thing? I figured it's be all computerized by now and that MMORPGs pretty much rendered this kind of stuff obsolete. Kind of nice to know there are still analog dorks out there.

 

[RC94]

I used to play, way back in the early 80s. I still have a bunch of hardcovers and I think some of my characters.

So how does one get back into D&D? Do I need to wander out to the mall or Reniassance Festival to find players? Maybe I can recruit my kids.

Same here, although if I still have any materials it's in storage and I haven't looked at that stuff in about 20 years.

I would be interested in trying to get back into it, but I don't have kids. I don't have any friends who play it at this point either so I am most likely out of luck. Some good RPG video games have basically taken it's place, but it's not the same thing socially.

 

[NewlyRetired]

I haven't played D&D in about 30 years. Do people really still do the whole pen/paper/dice thing? I figured it's be all computerized by now and that MMORPGs pretty much rendered this kind of stuff obsolete. Kind of nice to know there are still analog dorks out there.

I asked this earlier. I would be more inclined to play if some of the recording was done on tablets/smart phones.

 

[Jeremy]

Still playing 1e here. None of that Unearthed Arcana crap either.

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

Still playing 1e here. None of that Unearthed Arcana crap either.

first edition only please

THAC0!!!!

I havent played in about 8 years, would love to dust off the old dice

 

[OC Zed]

I used to play, way back in the early 80s. I still have a bunch of hardcovers and I think some of my characters.

So how does one get back into D&D? Do I need to wander out to the mall or Reniassance Festival to find players? Maybe I can recruit my kids.

Getting the kids into it would be key. Being with out kids it would be very tough to explain to my wife that I am going over Mikey's house to play DnD. "

Hey Hun do you know where my dice bag is?"

"Sure, it's in my purse, where it's been since we got back from our honeymoon."

 

[OC Zed]

There was a decent indie comedy last year on adults keeping the D&D torch alive...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFmlWHwoFCo

 

[Mr. Know-It-All]

Funny, this is making a resurgence. My daughter and her fiancé started playing with a group of friends last year and have recruited my son and his fiancé into their little D&D clan. I didn't know it was still around, but it is and apparently thriving.

 

[Drifter]

Was somewhat familiar when 3 ed came out. What the hell were 4th and 5th? I don't understand how you got 10 years from 1->2 and 20 years from 2->3 and then go 3->5 in 10.

 

[bicycle_seat_sniffer]

Was somewhat familiar when 3 ed came out. What the hell were 4th and 5th? I don't understand how you got 10 years from 1->2 and 20 years from 2->3 and then go 3->5 in 10.

Wizards of the Coast trying to sell more books and stuff

back in the day each kid would buy 1 book, DM guide, players handbook, monster manual, and then you were done.

need to re-invent that every few years to generate more sales.