I'm sorry. I have a live D&D game to go to on Saturdays. You know how that goes, BH.

~SE++

so bored..wish mroe folks here played d20 modern..but eh whatca gonna day lol

EDIT: I wonder if it would even be possible for someone to run a Paranoia game via PbP...

I dont play much live D&D... though I'm actually in a game at the moment and have been for the last....nine hours.

Lol

I dont know enough people IRL to play in meat space.

What kinda game? Skype?

~SE++

Nope. Single session IRL game.

One of the players is a "mostly new" player. She's played a few times but shes never really serious about it and never bothers to remember the rules. Shes like...a nerd by proxy...but not one herself; all her friends are nerds, and her boyfriend (our DM today) is an game / rpg nerd but she's not really. She occasionally holds D&D games at her house but its mostly three hours of building characters and fourty five minutes of actual play, roleplay is essientailly non existance, and every time she has to relearn the rules.... so normally I dont join. But today the game was at my place with her, her boyfriend, Roaring Mouse and I.

Characters were mostly built before hand, and so things went way smoother, and we ran way longer than we normally would have cause it was essentially a "final chance to hang out before BH deploys" game. But over the game was actually pretty fun considering... and even though she got bored and stopped really paying attention about halfway through the 8 hour game session lol. Roaring Mouse, the DM, and I definitely had a blast, and the final fight went from face roll easy to suddenly almost a TPK in a matter of one turn. Haha.

So, Garren and I did the PvP thread and it wasn't much of a success, as I basically won because I won initiative.

I was thinking there's a lot of newer players though, what if we made the PvP thread more of an encounter simulator thread? Like one person creates a specifically difficult encounter, and people use characters they already have rolled up to attempt to defeat it?

Actually I won initiative. My entire build was built around it. It was the range of your bow that got you the first strike after which it was all down hill.

I'd be down for random monster stomping though. Or even building one. If there's one thing 4e hit right outta the dark it was easy construction of monsters - especially if you know what pitfalls to avoid when doing so.

But I got to attack first or something, right? It was like a 3 turn battle, so it's kind of a blur, and I'm too lazy to reopen the thread.

We could even do a PvP school for D&D. I'd be down to kill some monsters, especially since it seems like all the campaigns I'm in are on hold except T_B's.

*Muses*

I've considered some sort of arena like the Dark Sun one. 5 players vs random encounters.... no real flavor, or having to go anywhere... just waves of enemies until you die.

I'm also considering a "NGA plays 4e" game...where no one person would be in charge of a character.

That does sound interesting. Maybe have some flavor in the form of some sort of announcer taunting the party who enters the arena. Or maybe the party has been sent there as a way of dealing with them?

Still some potential for flavor even with random encounters.

Edit: Also what is this NGA plays 4e idea? A fixed party, but those playing them change?

(Note: Hit submit a little prematurely.)

Arena:
Yup something like that, hell people could even take turns submitting encounters to the DM to run against the party and such.


NGA Plays
I'd basically make 4 or 5 pregenerated characters at a certain level...and then whoever wandered through the thread could post a turn for whoever happened to be up in the initiative order. Obviously I'd impose certain rules; no one person could make two turns in a row, if no one took a turn in a 48 hour span I'd just DM the turn, yadda yadda yadda. Just a minor idea, havent thought on it too much.

*goes back to wishing more folks played d20 modern*

Recruit more people to the site!

Get your IRL d20 players on here.

I'd definitely be down to play my Slaughterbeau character in arena fighting, and Garrbear already had a char rolled up!

On the note of arena fighting I actually already have a small collection of creatures built and ready to go. I built them as a training exercise for getting to grips with the 4E monster builder and while their flavour is entirely wrong for D&D they are mechanically sound. Just something to think on in a party vs monster scenario.

Hmm, now I wanna build a single encounter map.....

~SE++

Oh?

DO IT.

Level 5 fine? Honestly, based on thread reading, I'd love fighting beside squinty and Bounty and having Garren try to kill us all.

Oh yeah? And what did I do to deserve honorable mention? Lol

Bc I respect how unwaveringly accurate and inneresting to read your Sea Dragon character was, and wanna see you try that with some bloodletting

And maybe it's the IRL fighter in me, but I typically like people I've been in fights with more than ones I haven't.