DM themed play-by-post D&D game : OOC thread

[raixel]

"And now, auditioning for the part of the pit, we have VINE DRAGON."
*Dragon enters stage* "RAAARWWWWRRRRR!*
"Ah, yes, 5 years at Cornish Art College, very good. Go ahead please"
"RAAAARRRWWWWWRRRREEEEEEEE!" *RIIIIIIP THUMP CRASH*
"Next, please."
"RRRAAR?"
"Hm, no. It was just....lacking"
"RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHRRRRRAAAA! *breathes* *FOOOMMMP*
"AIIIIEEEEEEEEE" *cough, hack* *fleees*
*dragon slumps off dejectedly to a remote cave*

And that was how he ended up here...

[raixel]

Whats club?

Ameena constantly is mystifying me with her murafu-speak. Oh no, wait. That was Petal. Nevermind...

[beowuuf]

The first rule of the RPG club Ameena goes to is she can't talk about it. The second rule is...probably something to do with not eating the figurines.

[raixel]

Mmm. Lead. Oh wait, they banned lead a a while ago.

[Ameena]

Lol it's a gaming club I go to, and the reason I found out about it in the first place was through someone on here. but not one of the regular members - it was over a year and a half ago now, a new member joined and made a single post saying something along hte lines of "Hi, i'm thinking of starting up my own campaign - can you guys give me any advice?", indicating that said newbie had misunderstood the intent of the forum based on its title and thought it was to do with DMs as in the runners of DnD games, not DM, the 1987 FTL game we're all familiar with. The original poster has never replied or anything, but the thread he/she started turned into a discussion about tabletop RP among the rest of us, and I mentioned that I'd always fancied a go at playing some tabletop DnD but didn't know of anyone in my area who'd want to play. So someone else linked a Google map of the UK which had every single gaming club marked on it...so I just zoomed in on my area and found that there was a club running really quite close to where I live. So I looked up when the club was held and it turned out it was on Monday and Thursday evenings - my work hours had been cut just a few months before giving me..yep, you guessed it, Mondays and Thursdayd free . So I found the e-mail address of the person who runs it and asked if I could join or whatever, and so I did and I've been going ever since . We don't just do DnD - we do other stuff too. In fact, unfortunately not many people there are into Fantasy and prefer Modern or Sci-Fi-based stuff, but I'm not too fussed as logn as I get to do some Fantasy every now and then. And we have a DnD game running atm on Mondays (when the GM is actually there to run it) which is fun .

[beowuuf]

Don't forget what else that thread spawned

[raixel]

Do I even want to know?

[beowuuf]

Apparently, you're partcipating in it right now!

[raixel]

Thats what I figured, but I was hoping itd be some dark evil secret thread that destroys the minds of those who look at it.

Now youve gone and disappointed me...

[beowuuf]

The first rule of TDESTTDTMOTWLAI* is you don't talk about TDESTTDTMOTWLAI. The second rule of TDESTTDTMOTWLAI is something to do with making people eat lead figurines. We kinda lost track and just started playing D&D.

http://www.dungeon-master.com/forum/vie ... 11&p=97878


*Pronounced 'Too dested to Mot wall eye'

[raixel]

Eloheim Militant?! That's not cool at all... Personally, i think we should not allow user names that could cause mad offense/take the focus away from DM. Considering we are an international community and all. Unless the guy was just an idiot and thought it sounded cool. I'm kinda glad he only posted once. If he became a regular that name coulda caused problems, especially with members from certain parts of the world.

(Im not offended, cuz very little offends me. But still, if that means what I think it does. And I know what "Eloheim, most commonly spelled elohim" means...)

/endrant

[beowuuf]

Oh, I hadn't known that variant on the name at all. Name changed!

[beowuuf]

I've got a weird head cold thingie happening right now, so will uodate at some point today, I'm not sure but I think you guys are waiting on me.

[raixel]

I am. I keep on sneaking on the comp at work to check every so often. Hope you feel better soon. Stop breathing the Vine Dragon fumes so much and itll clear up!

[beowuuf]

Lol, just because you've set yourself to hidden frm normal view on the forums does not mean work people can't spot you doing it

I'm sorry my my update isn't a great one for Petal now!

[raixel]

Damn. And here I was thinking I was being all sneaky in case someone saw me. Oh well.

LOL at the rock comment. and UH OH at everything else. I guess thats what Petal gets for pointing and laughing at all the helpless fools in the pit.

[raixel]

Update to the bika culture doc coming soon!

[Ameena]

Ohh that reminds me, I will be getting on with my own murafu write-up thingy at some point...unfortunately my current game-I'm-playing-at-the-moment is rather addictive so I try to spend as much time playing it as possible, riding around with my army all on horses and kicking the crap out of bandits and enemy caravans and lords and stuff .

[beowuuf]

Cool!

[raixel]

LOL anyone notice someone named 'fademaster' spammed the custom dungeon thread with links to DnD maps? Werent we just discussing how this game started cuz some guy thought DM was referring to DnD?

[ian_scho]

@Ameena. Is it Mount and Blade? Its a fantastic 3rd person medieval RPG but really hard when starting off. Highly recommended!

[Ameena]

Hehe yes, good guess Ian i it is indeed Mount and Blade...I'm not gonna bother getting Warband since I'm having enough fun playing the basic version. I didn't really find it hard starting off, since I stayed away from the steppes at first so didn't have to worry about anything being able to outrun me. Once I'd got myself a few levels, though, I went down there and started recruiting troops, because I'd already decided I was gonna join the Khergits. I got the game for my dad a couple of years ago as a birthday present, and he's been playing it on-and-off ever since (it's kinda like Frontier, but with horses ), and recently I'd finished the game I was playing and was watching my dad play this and so decided I might as well give it a go 'cause it looked quite interesting. I now have an army of about 70-80 (max is over 90 now but I don't rush to reach the cap since I can manage fine enough as I am), Renown enough to be almost more renowned than all the rulers (I've beaten King Graveth of the Rhodoks already as his Renown is only 900-and-something, and I'm only about 20 behind Sanjar Khan, my own ruler :O), and I seen able to terrify pretty much anyone into running away just by goign near them - yesterday I noticed a Swadian army of about 115-ish troops (compared to my 70-ish) running away from me, despite the fact he outnumbered me by quite a lot. Must be the Renown . My first "uber-battle" that I can remember was when I had an army of 45 and picked a fight with a Nord lord who had an army of 110. And I won. With only 12 deaths on my side (all Lancers, I think). He had 90 deaths and 20 wounded . I've fought bigger armies since...like when I had around 50-60 troops I ganked someone who had about 184 or something. Ahh, fun times . What I haven't done yet is taken over a castle - in a siege you don't get horses and they're kind of a pretty big advantage to me, so all my little bowmen have to run on foot and shoot up at the people in the castle whilst getting shot and and stuff. I have helped take a castle, when one of my lords (as marshall) told me to, but I've never gone up to a castle (or a town, comes to that) and besieged it all by myself. Maybe I will when I have about fifty zillion troops, find a not-very-busy castle/town, and have actually bothered to put more than about two points into Tactics so I get to start with more troops than the enemy .
Ummm anyway...yeah, to not drag this thread too far off-topic with talk of how much fun I'm having ganking Nord and Swadian caravans and lords and stuff, yaaay, DnD is cool, woot-woot let's raid dungeons and fight monsters and solve puzzles and stuff .

[beowuuf]

LOL anyone notice someone named 'fademaster' spammed the custom dungeon thread with links to DnD maps? Werent we just discussing how this game started cuz some guy thought DM was referring to DnD?

Oops, yeah, meant to see if he was for real or a weird spammer, and gently move the post from the maps post to the creative forum.


And hmm, mount and blade. Is it an older game? I got something that sounded like that in a steam sale. I kinda lost interest durign the tutorial, even though it seemed interesting enough having the combat/defense thingie.

[Ameena]

It's been out a few years, I think. There's a recent expansion called "Mount and Blade - Warband" which I think only came out a few months ago. My dad went and got it (Warband) a few days ago but from what I've seen it's not different enough from the normal version that I'd fancy getting it - I think the main difference is the addition of multiplayer mode (I think it's one of those where you join a server and create your own room to have single battles and sieges and stuff with other people, rather than actually playing on the big proper map), which I'm not really interested in. When I got the original Mount and Blade I'm pretty sure it was in the cheap section (ie "£4.99 each or three for a tenner", or similar), so has probably been out a while or just hasn't really attracted as large a player base as soem other games. Well, whatever - it's good fun. I think there's a free, downloadable trial version you can get from the website in which you can do everything but there is a level cap of six for your character and so you need to buy the full version in order to carry on. I think my character must be around level 30 by now - last time I looked she was levl 24 and that was a few days ago. Levelling doesn't take too long if you spend enough time riding about and hacking at people .
As for the tutorials, yeah they're just to show you the basics of how combat works. I didn't have any trouble with any of them, really, though part of the horse-riding one took several goes before I got a halfway decent score. I will add to that, however, the comment that it is substantially easier to hit a person than it is a clay-pot-on-a-stick . I tend to solo half the combat, leaving my troops behind sitting forlornly atop a nearby hill, to watch as I ride in circles around the advancing army hacking at them and downing many in one hit (because my skill in my chosen weapon type is pretty good by now and I have a pretty nice sword). I also got myself a new toy the other day, this being a lance, with which I can clonk people pretty good as couched lance damage seems pretty hefty - when you deal it you get a message in red informing you that "You have delivered couched lance damage!" - conversely, you get the reverse (also in red) if you receive couched lance damage from someone. I took about 77 dam in one hit from some bastard once (and my hp max is currently only about 50) . But yeah, it's nice for taking down people on horses. And the horse, actually. Both in the one hit, usually .
But umm yeah...it's a cool fun game, and the kind of thing I'll probably go back to repeatedly in the future once I reach burnout on this first run of it - I'll play some other stuff and then get back to it and carry on riding around the map ganking enemy lords and stuff .

[ian_scho]

You've covered my experience with Mount and Blade perfectly, Ameena. But with one exception.

Modules!

Eventually I got a little bored with the native game... And that was after a *long* time playing so I checked out some modules and can recommend Prophesy of Pendor which is really hard yet very rewarding. Try the modules out after you've exhausted your expansionistic illusions in the native game.

A great game, available on Steam. I wonder if it's cheaper buying it directly from the developer?

[Ameena]

Oh yeah, I forgot about mods - there's plenty of those out there, I'm aware. I suppose that playing a mod would require starting again. Should I decide I fancy doing so, I might start a mod but I dunno - I can't normally be arsed with that kind of stuff since I'm normally happy playing the normal game and once I reach burnout with that it means I fancy playing something else entirely, not the same game in a slightly different setting or whatever . I read somewhere that there's even some kind of Sci-Fi mod for it, presumbly with laser guns and light sabres or something. I think I just skim-read it on some random forum somewhere. Anyway, when I'm done with Mount and Blade, it's the Witcher for me - I've sort of been eyeing it up for a few years and found the (presumably recently-released) Enhanced Edition for a tenner, which has loads of extra stuff like a map, art book, and soundtrack and stuff, as well as the actual game with all its extras and stuff in it. So I'll be giving that a go when I've worn out my temporary Mount and Blade addiction .
For now, though, I'm happy enough riding around at speed-faster-than-everything-'cause-my-whole-army-is-on-horses-with-no-infantry-thank-you-very-much and watching as the sun rises and things scatter before me like little ants running about (because I tend to have the main map zoomed out quite far now I don't have to worry too much about how many are in a group of bandits). It's quite amusing in the steppes, actually - that area seems to have more armies of bandits than anywhere else (even more than the northern coast with its Sea Raiders), and of course they're all Steppe Bandits on their horses, and when the night is over and the land lights up again and so my viewing distance expands, I suddenly see zillions of them all scattering in all directions away from me. It's quite amusing, actually . I don't bother fighting them, becuase enemies on horses (particulary Khergit-type ones) are really annoying. But hey, it's not like I'll ever have to fight against a Khergit lord, is it? .

[ian_scho]

I wanted to play The Witcher as well... Sounded interesting.

As for the mod - I waited about 9 months before I got 'the itch' again!

[beowuuf]

Yeah, it sounds like the very first mount and blade I tried out. Interesting to see there's a modding community and expansions to it! Maybe one of these days I'll go back and play a lot of the games I got on steam ages ago

[Ameena]

The tutorials for Mount and Blade are really only to show you the basics of combat - I don't fight that way most of the time anyway, since I'm always on a horse when in a normal battle and so I get to charge around like a maniac hacking at people, trampling them, or spearing them on the end of my lance . The only time I fight on foot is when practising in the arena or during a tournament. Oh, or during a siege but I only take part in those if I get told to by the current marshall of my faction.
Mount and Blade is a great game to just load up and arse around in if you're got even ten minutes to spare - you can ride about and find some bandits to kill, or something, or do a quick task for a nearby lord if there's one about (either in a town/castle or roaming the lands on patrol or whatever).

[oh_brother]

@ Beo and money: sorry for the lack of posts, just no time atm. Tomorrow is a write-off too, but it will improve on Thursday!