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Post by aaron on Jun 16, 2014 12:29:56 GMT -9
ok I know this is going to be hard for many of you to believe I have never played Dungeons and Dragons .... or really any kind of roll playing game. So my friend Josh (who used to own a D&D store in Corpus Kristy )is going to teach me and my Nerd in training son! but he said we had to have our own dice... rather than go out buy a bunch of dice that I may or may not ever use again I decided to make my own. I like the whole Steam-punk thing so I made some Steam-punk D&D dice and I figured since many of you guys like to play ye old D&D I would toss these out to you guys as well! I think I have all the ones I will need if I'm missing anything be sure and tell me!
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Post by oldschooldm on Jun 16, 2014 13:16:12 GMT -9
aaron Those are awesome, but I highly recommend using a high-contrast bright color for the numbers. And for fun, you can make the highest digit (20) even more sparkley!
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 16, 2014 13:35:21 GMT -9
You'll be needing some more d6's, so you might as well stick another in the blank space.
I do like the look of these. With the numbers being small on the d20, you might have a little difficulty reading the throw.
Actually, you might consider making the d20 a tad larger.
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Post by oldschooldm on Jun 16, 2014 13:38:55 GMT -9
You'll be needing some more d6's, so you might as well stick another in the blank space. I do like the look of these. With the numbers being small on the d20, you might have a little difficulty reading the throw. Actually, you might consider making the d20 a tad larger. Here's a tight layout:
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Post by aaron on Jun 16, 2014 14:51:38 GMT -9
ya after I printed it out I was surprised at how small it is! so I will be making them bigger and brighter. what's with the D100? there isn't really 100 spaces why not just use a D10? thanks for showing me the way to do it guys I'm still learning.
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Post by mahotsukai on Jun 16, 2014 15:08:10 GMT -9
You can throw the D10 twice, but it is more convenient to throw two, either of different colours or with one marked as tens to generate percentage numbers.
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Post by aaron on Jun 16, 2014 15:14:58 GMT -9
I guess I just don't understand what it's used for yet? why would 00 on a D100 be any different than 1 on a D10? ok here's the salvage of my (obvious)hard work these dice took me a life time! well the life time of the common midge fly anyway.... I haven't printed it yet but I think it will be better... couldn't be worse LOL
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Post by WackyAnne on Jun 16, 2014 16:52:57 GMT -9
I guess I just don't understand what it's used for yet? why would 00 on a D100 be any different than 1 on a D10? D10 is rolled for 1-10, while the D100 is rolled for 10s (00, 10, 20, 30...) Rolling the two together is the most effective way to calculate percentile rolls (uncommon in regular D&D, but useful for random tables), but you could roll the d10 once for the 10s and then again for the 1s, or roll two d10s of different, designated colours at the same time, sure. You could also use a dice-rolling app on your smartphone, tablet, or laptop, too. That being said, I'm surprised that he doesn't have a couple of sets to lend you guys to try the game out. Especially since he once ran a game store ! . But you may find that you'll want your own soon anyway... They can be rather addictive all in their own...
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Post by aaron on Jun 16, 2014 17:16:34 GMT -9
leave it to my girl Ann to explain the teck stuff.... so really you could just use another D10.
ya he used to own the store but he finished up his masters and got a gig running databases for godaddy and making the big $$ so he subsequently sold off the shop and moved to San Antonio ... this is the firt time he will be playing in like 15 years and his wife (like my wife )HATES gaming stuff so she was glad when he sold it all off. I wanted to start a store but my wife was like oh HELLLLLLLLLLL no!! why not stay by the beach in Corpus I don't know, but his lovely wife and 4 daughters might have something to do with it LOL Im glad he did or I would never learn to play LOL
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Post by WackyAnne on Jun 16, 2014 18:50:29 GMT -9
Yeah, a good GM is worth their weight in gold. My roleplaying is 95% aspirational, as I don't have enough gaming experience under my belt to game master a group of my own, and finding an existing one to join has proven very difficult around here. Mostly I'm just playing the odd Pathfinder game via organized play, and that often becomes more roll-play than role-play (partly because of PF's OP time constraints, and partly the odd mix of players that turn up, leading to a difficult to control game).
I hope you have fun, and that you get some physical dice. There's something very satisfying about a good solid dice roll... plus the myriad colours and decorations of dice are an addiction in themselves!
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Post by Dave on Jun 16, 2014 19:33:37 GMT -9
Nice dice!
I've been playing RPGs since I was 10, so I'm excited for you. However, D&D is not very representative of modern RPGs and may give you a bad impression of what the hobby has to offer. I hope your dungeon master doesn't try to run you through a mindless "dungeon crawl" where monsters inexplicably live in chambers next to other monsters and sit on piles of gold and magic swords just waiting to be plundered. That's D&D at its least interesting.
There are some excellent story-rich RPGs such as Shadowrun, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Paranoia, Fiasco, Star Wars, World of Darkness, Eclipse Phase, Blue Planet, Mutants & Masterminds, Fading Suns, EarthDawn... too many to mention. While far less popular than D&D, nearly every other RPG does "roleplaying" better.
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Post by enpeze on Jun 17, 2014 1:44:47 GMT -9
Well I am playing rpgs since several decades now and I think the simple approach of D&D is good intro into the hobby. (at least 1st, 2nd and 4th edition - 3rd edition of course not)
In this sense a fun and easy dungeon crawl is fine because not every adventure can be (and is in fact) like enemy within and not every player likes the intense playing style which such campaigns requires.
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Post by WackyAnne on Jun 17, 2014 3:48:48 GMT -9
Well, you're timing _is_ perfect, as this very Saturday is Free RPG Day. If you visit your FLGS (& they signed up to participate) you could pick up one or more QuickStart rules &/or adventures to try out... While D&D itself doesn't participate, its (full-grown) child Pathfinder is in it in a big way, as are old school revivals Castles & Crusades (leaner & cleaner), Lamentations of the Flame Princess (deeper, darker, weirder), and Dungeon Crawl Classics (mostly self-explanatory, but waaaay too many weird dice). Mage: The Ascension, 13th Age and (newcomer ?) Godsfall round out the fantasy RPG contigent. Then there is Cosmic Patrol, Valiant, and a Shadowrun/Battletech flip book... Heck, just visit their damn web page already ( FreeRPGDay.com), then your local game store this weekend. And/or checkout DriveThruRPG (or RPGNow or Wargame Vault, all the same family where your Splinterwood children now live) for some free quick starts... and go from there! Ummm, that's if you don't feel overwhelmed by your choices already... Ya, so just play the one, first, and realize that there are a hundred different ways and games to play if and when you want to... So HAVE FUN!
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Post by aaron on Jun 17, 2014 5:19:10 GMT -9
ya my folks saw that movie about the kid who plays D&D and gets all Skitso and ends up in a mental home thinking it was all real and my mom even told me that D&D was run by satanists who's whole goal was to get you to kill some one for real at the end of the game. needless to say I wasn't allowed to play it LOL though I think if any of that were true and with the millions of players world wide there would be a lot more Skitso murderers out there.... oh well I was always into modeling more than roll-playing anyway so it was ok I suppose. but now that my son has come to me and said hey dad what's D&D all about I was like I don't know something about Satan and killing people I think ... wanna try? when I told my friend Josh that Niko wanted to know how to play he said "so your going to teach him then ?" and I said I have never played. he just got really quiet and looked at me like I had some weird alien on my face. So against his wife's(and mine)wishes he's dusting off the old manuals and busting out some dice and were going to learn. He's already warned me that he's a terrible DM and that he's just teaching us how to play after that were on our own because his wife would kill him if he got back into it again... to deeply.... LOL. I have the feeling that in a few months we'll probably have a shop again lets face it once and addict always and addict am I right? So I will probably take over the roll of DM at some point (once I know what I am doing) and I always thought of an RPG like an open world Video game where the DM has to know the world rather than just a seniero. so you make a world and let the players loose in it. kind of like what I am doing with Splinterwoods. I made a world and if you want to go anywhere it's there for the going and I already have an idea about what's going on there at any given point it's just a matter of fine tuning the details. I also like stories with lots of plot twists and turns like how Erasabeth and Ellasaph are sisters and Barnlof is still madly in love with Erasabeth but secretly he's making a wepon to kill her so she doesn't destroy the world. Erasabeth is still in love with Barnlof only her addiction is stronger than her love and it's driving her to madness that she can't have power and the man that she loves. though she thinks that Barnlof will never hurt her this is why she's never openly attacked the clockwork elves and they have never gotten into a conflict with the Falien elves only what she doesn't know is that Barnlof can see the writing on the wall and when the final moment comes if he can't convinces her to stop he will have to kill her. then there's the whole side story of Tanellerell and his sisiter who is a powerful Dawn elf and quiet insane. He's trying to find her and help her before she can wreak havoc on the world like Erasabeth only she's not as sane as Erasabeth and so the things she deos are more sparatic and it doesn't help that she has a flying mount that can take her just about anywhere she wants to go and quickly. all of this is going on while Erasabeth attackes the splinterwood looking for the last tome of sealing to bring about the end of the world. so Tanellerell has to stop looking for his insane sister and fight the splinter wars which is now starting to involve the whole world as just about every sentient race is starting to understand what Erasabeth is up to and the consequences of her success. on top of all of this the woods themselves have been cursed by Erasabeth when she unleashed madness as a disease into the woods. leading to the vigulant a cult of hybred elves both clock work and Splinterwood they seek after the aflicted to eradicate them but many have slipped into the deep (a nexsus created when the seal of madness was broken by Erasabeth )it's expanses are nearly endless and few who have entered have ever returend with their sanity in tackt (can you say hero quest type game in the making ) and that's only the Splinterwoods ! there's the Parduvan mountians and the Kelthosians empire and even the sea elves.... the Falien islands the great plains with the Iron rend Barbarians and the centuars and not to forget the Rhinox they will be fun ..... so now all I need are some players to step into this world and deal with all the stuff going on around them.
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 17, 2014 6:45:04 GMT -9
I never did much DM'ing, but between dungeon scenarios, we would have to get from one place to another, or at least head back to civilization and restock and heal up a bit. Our primary DM would have me DM for those. It was actually kind of fun to trade off DMing. Paul was excellent for dungeons. Lynn and this other guy would trade off for one-off designed adventures, then me for the out-and-abouts.
You don't really have to have a lot of experience to DM. Like most things in life, you just have to know a little bit more than the folks you are leading. And if they know more than you, then trade off.
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Post by aaron on Jun 17, 2014 7:30:15 GMT -9
LOL well right this moment I don't know anything so I will have to see we meet tonight at 5 pm central time were scheduled to go to 9 but we shall see.
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Post by aaron on Jun 17, 2014 8:14:06 GMT -9
check it out some one built my dice !
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Post by dungeonmistress on Jun 18, 2014 20:44:43 GMT -9
Very Cool, aaron! I think you're going to have a blast learning the game! Just don't get too stuck on the rules and go with the flow. You should check out the DM'S Craft , DM Scotty has a whole huge set of videos including stuff about DMing! I've already told them about your Splinterwood creations, so they know something about you. You'd like them, they are as wonderfully nutty as this group is, so I know they'll love you!
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Post by aaron on Jun 19, 2014 4:21:56 GMT -9
Awesome !! I will head over there and check it out ! we didn't get to play very long because I found out it takes 20 years to make a character with TONS of reading! I made the mistake of being a Drow assassin and I had to read the history of Drow and the Gods they worship and ... on and on and on LOL I don't remember Hero Quest being like that LOL
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Post by Vermin King on Jun 19, 2014 5:42:05 GMT -9
The first game I played the DM basically gave me an NPC to be my character. He still had to explain a bunch of stuff, but that is still less time-consuming than generating a new character. After that, we had a character-generating session before the second trip out with the party
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Post by enpeze on Jun 19, 2014 23:12:24 GMT -9
well. Aaron the amount of time you spent for making a character is not typical. If your GM would have chosen a rules lighter system like some old school rpgs on the market (eg labyrinth lord) then character making would have lasted maybe 10minutes.
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Post by aaron on Jun 20, 2014 4:17:09 GMT -9
well the guy who is GMing the game wants me to do it so I think that's why he wanted me to be familiar with the hard core rules I guess.... I still kind of like Hero Quest better LOL especially when you have some one like me who has taken the game to an extremely unhealthy level. lets just say that a game of Hero Quest in my house takes up three tables and has been known to take over 3 months to complete a quest. I have a whole town where the hero's can buy gear, get side missions, go and prey to their gods (mostly for the Paladins)theirs a thieves guild and even a castle section when they have to talk to the king (which happens far more than it should *stupid king*)or they can just hang out and get drunk. which usually leads to fighting off assassins hired by the husbands of the ladies they were parting with *oooohhhh!* it's hard enough to do that when you don't have a raging hang over but the barbarian can usually shake it off pretty well and the dwarf fights better drunk so they just give him a few more rounds! of coars their nothing more dangerious than a drunk wisard fighting assassins in a crowded tavern. "don woorry boyz I'm *hic* I'm gonna fire ball 'em to the face!*hic* stan back! " "no that's the bar keep and his wife!!" shouts the elf who hasn't been drinking and is actually amused at the whole affair. "oh... well in that case keep it flowin! *wizard passes out on the floor. I use 3rd party floor tiles so when some one randomly finds a secret door in a long hallway of nothing, they spin off into a whole other dungeon series and take on side quests with sub plots and game changers at every turn.... it sounds like I have turned my Hero Quest games into D&D without all the crazy dice.
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Post by migibb on Jun 20, 2014 9:49:23 GMT -9
Right everyone - when we all going round to Aaron's for a game of Heroquest? ??
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Post by WackyAnne on Jun 20, 2014 10:14:51 GMT -9
I agree with migibb - HQ @ aaron's sounds like a blast! (You may want to check out The Lost & The Damned - a forum dedicated to customizing and expanding HQ and its like, where BilliamBabble Inked Adventures got his start) As for your first D&D experience, your GM should have started you off with a pregen so you could get a feel for the fluff and crunch of the game before getting overwhelmed by the options.
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Post by aaron on Jun 20, 2014 10:51:38 GMT -9
Lost and the Damned .... ya sounds like my life in a nutshell I'm going to head over and move in LOL and your all welcome to come! fist one to Texas gets a deep fried scorpion on a stick!
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Post by wildagreenbough on Jun 20, 2014 11:00:25 GMT -9
Oooooooo and being offered local delicacies too, - I'll just dash out to the garage and dust off the autogyro
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Post by dungeonmistress on Jun 20, 2014 11:34:38 GMT -9
I'll show up with my players in tow! aaron...how big is your B-B-Q grill?
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Post by aaron on Jun 20, 2014 12:48:01 GMT -9
I'm a Texan ..... do you really need to ask that question?
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Post by dungeonmistress on Jun 20, 2014 13:30:27 GMT -9
Yes! I some Texans and the biggest thing there are in Texas are the tall tales! So, if I show up with half a red dragon, will it fit?
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Post by WackyAnne on Jun 20, 2014 13:30:53 GMT -9
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