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Getting my geek on...

So, today was spent playing my first ever game of tabletop D&D. It wasn't half as scary as I thought it would be and I quite enjoyed myself. Even with the non-stop running nose of doom. There was dungeon-crawling and then later pirates. I'm still getting used to the whole dice and numbers thing, but the adventuring itself was a lot of fun.

So yeah, crossing over to the geek side, slowly but surely. Although Dex is still working on getting me into the video games. ;)

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Are ninjas and dinosaurs and robots.

You've got pirates covered.

Redhawk

Well, considering my character is a monk of the unarmed arse-kicking variety, I think I've got ninjas covered too. ;)

Although I'm not allowed to have escrima sticks. *pouts*

Provided Dex is using the same rules we are (D&D, 3.5), monks get weapons, but only -very- specific ones. I don't know if there's an equivalent for escrima sticks.

*nods* Yeah, I do have access to some stuff, although there's no escrima equivalent. I do have kama and shuriken, tho'. ;)

Dual-wielding sianghams.

Is that what those are? I looked in the weapons guide and couldn't find an actual description beyond "exotic weapon monks can use". And I forgot to google it every time I was actually near a computer. *wry*

It's a made-up weapon. Think those little flexible batons with a weighted metal tip. If you want to house-rule in escrima sticks, the easiest way to do them is identical to clubs for damage and such.

That would explain the complete lack of knowledge then. *wry*

Think I'll stick with my enchanted quarterstaff and kama. Besides, I have Stunning Fist and that's actually going to be a lot of fun when I'm not fighting barrow wights...

*grins* Told you it wouldn't be that scary. Long as you get a good group of people and a good DM/GM to run the game then it can be loads of fun.

Well, the first time ever I played Rifts, I was hopelessly out of my depth and nearly got us all killed with a bad roll and some of the people I was playing with were more than a little itimidating. This time, three of the four of us playing hadn't really played much before, and Dex was GM-ing, which made it much easier and much more fun. I didn't feel like a nong for not knowing which dice to roll and all the rest of it.

*grins* Never feel like a nong for not knowing these things. Every roleplayer has to start somewhere and if you tell people at the beginning that you're a newbie then a good group will be ready for the questions and will usually give you tips and hints about your character class/ what different phrases mean and the like.

At least, that's what my first gaming group was like. :) Glad you had fun this time, mate. :)

D and D? Bah! You haven't gamed till you run three completey different campaigns in three completely different game settings in one night... and managed to make a running joke about weasle guns in all of them.

One of these days, I'm going to coerce my sister into doing her "Shady Dwarf" routine as a phone post. You'll split your sides laughing. :)

Baby steps, Jess. *grins* Considering the only other gaming I've done is LJ RPGs (with mixed success) and RRs, getting the hang of the whole tabletop thing will take a little bit of time...

It took me a month to get to that stage. Granted, I started gaming on a regular basis when I was 14 and during the summers gamed 5 days a week in three and a half different games.

*wry*

Jess? I've been gaming for over half my life and still not done that. Not everyone wants to be Hardcore. We're still gamers.

..

On the other hand, I did run a game where in the course of the session, every player broke into song at one point or another.

Jess? I've been gaming for over half my life and still not done that. Not everyone wants to be Hardcore. We're still gamers.

It gives you something to strive for doesn't it. :0) Or maybe my old campus buddies are a little weird.

On the other hand, I did run a game where in the course of the session, every player broke into song at one point or another.

That is just as bad. And has happened in one of our games too. Though it was once the Necromancer began belting out 'Hakuna Matata' that I had to bribe the players with more character points to finally got them to stop.

*laughs* I don't intend to =ever= run three sessions in one day with 3 systems. One 9 hour session? Sure. But that much changeup would break my brain. Or prevent eating. Both are bad.

*laughs* I don't intend to =ever= run three sessions in one day with 3 systems. One 9 hour session? Sure. But that much changeup would break my brain. Or prevent eating. Both are bad.

My games work better as 1-3 hour long excursions. I've done longer but I've found after five hours it breaks down into arguments. Sometimes, I hate having to be the voice of sanity in the group.

*waves*

My sister and my brother-in-law ended my D&D virginity this summer. My character is a bi-sexual, human ranger (she's into human women and elven men. ;) ).

I wish I lived closer to the farm so we could play more often. Especially since Zac is about to throw some romance Taala's way in the form of a broody Drow.

*grins* Mine's a male half-elven monk from the Order of St Cuthbert - lawful neutral. I'm basing him personality-wise on one of my karate instructors...

When we started gaming in the system you guys are using, Red's PC was a monk of St. Cuthbert. Thre's a couple of good gaming stories in there.

I got the Holy Paladin Of The Light that time. Karla -i can never ever remember her last name-, Cleric/Paladin of Pelor (who is the sun god, so literally, a Paladin of the Light). She was... well, basically Buffy. Complete with both moments of Tough Girl and Just a Bit Dim.

Karla didn't have a last name. :) I remember this because I have her sheet not ten feet from me.

"I turn undead!" "You do 80 points of damage each, 5 skeletons die"! "... GO ME!"

I'm sorry, dude, but I've got to break it to you. You've been a geek for many, many years already. ;) It's time to admit it and embrace the dark side. It really is kinda fun?

Uh-huh. Well, if you get a good group, or so I'm told. My first outing in tabletop RP wasn't quite so fun.

*nods* And the first (and only time) time I went to an II meeting, it was the same, even though I knew half the people there already. The other game collapsed after a few weeks because we only had two players and the GM and it was bloody Wattle Park.

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