First D&D product you ever bought. Do you still have it?
The first product I ever bought myself was the 3.5 Players Handbook. No fancy story here or anything; my father-in-law was the only one who had one in our group of about 6 players, so I wanted to buy one for myself and so we would have an extra one to pass around. Luckily now there are more copies owned between us so it makes it easier during play. I still have it and use it quite a bit when we play D&D, or my wife uses it when I'm running the game.
A sci-fi tabletop role playing game with fantasy elements; using the Savage Worlds Deluxe rule system.
Friday, February 7, 2014
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Day 6 - D&D 40th Anniversary blog hop challenge!
First character death. How did you handle it?
To be honest the only character I have ever had die was the Druid/Psion that I messed up and my father-in-law killed him so I could build a full on Psion instead. So I don't think that one counts much as it was a willing death. The group I normally play with (my in-laws) don't really do the character deaths much and tend to gimp the damage to instead incapacitate the character rather than kill.
To be honest the only character I have ever had die was the Druid/Psion that I messed up and my father-in-law killed him so I could build a full on Psion instead. So I don't think that one counts much as it was a willing death. The group I normally play with (my in-laws) don't really do the character deaths much and tend to gimp the damage to instead incapacitate the character rather than kill.
Now I did actually kill my first character while I was running a game the other weekend. I killed 2 actually and they surprisingly took it better than I expected them to, which was great of them.
One was my father-in-laws character who fell from a trap that did more damage than I felt comfortable gimping; so I just let it go through and it dropped him.
The second was a friend that plays with us, and his character dropped something like 15 minutes after the first. He got the attention of a Death Giant they were fighting and the Giant ran up ad smacked him full on and did 164 damage on a full attack and dropped him to about -60 something.
They got resurrected so they were fine, and they took it well when their characters dropped which surprised me.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Day 5 - D&D 40th Anniversary blog hop challenge!
I guess I should actually write what the question is supposed to be in here before I answer it.
First character to go from 1st level to the highest level possible in a given edition (or what's the highest level character you've ever ran).
Although I've never had a character reach a maximum level I have had a character go beyond level 20. Our DM (my father-in-law) ran a 2 session run with our epic characters but didn't like trying to handle everything the party could do, so it was a short run sadly.
My character to reach a level beyond 20 is also the favorite character I've played. Ganitari was her name and she was a True Neutral Kalashtar Psion (shaper)/Ectopic Adept/Dragon Rider. Sounds silly, but with the Draconomicon book my father-in-law let me get a small Silver Dragon Companion. I like pets and so she was focused on using constructs over other powers, although she still could hurt enemies pretty well with her own powers. By the time we reached the end of the game the Silver Dragon had just barely gotten big enough for my character to ride (hence the Dragon Rider prestige class). By the end of it she could summon two Huge Astral Constructs, along with the Silver Dragon companion, and of course her own powers. She could definitely survive by herself for a while when necessary, which she actually had to a couple of times. Her hit points were low so usually 1-2 big hits would do her in, but luckily massive constructs make very good distractions, so she never got hit hard enough all at once to do her in at least.
By the time we ended our short epic run the party had reached level 25. All in all a fun game, but for my first completely psionic character I thought it was awesome.
First character to go from 1st level to the highest level possible in a given edition (or what's the highest level character you've ever ran).
Although I've never had a character reach a maximum level I have had a character go beyond level 20. Our DM (my father-in-law) ran a 2 session run with our epic characters but didn't like trying to handle everything the party could do, so it was a short run sadly.
My character to reach a level beyond 20 is also the favorite character I've played. Ganitari was her name and she was a True Neutral Kalashtar Psion (shaper)/Ectopic Adept/Dragon Rider. Sounds silly, but with the Draconomicon book my father-in-law let me get a small Silver Dragon Companion. I like pets and so she was focused on using constructs over other powers, although she still could hurt enemies pretty well with her own powers. By the time we reached the end of the game the Silver Dragon had just barely gotten big enough for my character to ride (hence the Dragon Rider prestige class). By the end of it she could summon two Huge Astral Constructs, along with the Silver Dragon companion, and of course her own powers. She could definitely survive by herself for a while when necessary, which she actually had to a couple of times. Her hit points were low so usually 1-2 big hits would do her in, but luckily massive constructs make very good distractions, so she never got hit hard enough all at once to do her in at least.
By the time we ended our short epic run the party had reached level 25. All in all a fun game, but for my first completely psionic character I thought it was awesome.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Day 4 - D&D 40th Anniversary blog hop challenge!
The first dragon that comes to mind that I fought was a blue dragon. I don't remember much about the fight itself, the only thing I really remember was my father-in-law looking at me funny because I wanted to take some of the dragon scales and sew them into my robe. They didn't give any benefit but the thought was amusing at the time.
Monday, February 3, 2014
Day 3 - D&D 40th Anniversary blog hop challenge!
The first dungeon I remember exploring was as a level 1
druid. I don’t remember the whole thing exactly, but it was full of undead
(Zombies and Skeletons), and after a while that gave way to Kobolds. It was fun
and painful at the same time as I was still learning and got hit quite a bit.
But still fun.
Day 2 - D&D 40th Anniversary blog hop challenge!
The first person I think I introduced to D&D would have
been my friend Timothy (Timmy as we called him). It was 3.5 edition also, and
his first character was a Druid. Sadly he didn't play with us for very long
(his wife didn't like it apparently).
Day 1 - D&D 40th Anniversary blog hop challenge!
I suppose that the first people to introduce me to D&D
would have been my wife and my father-in-law. So yeah, I wasn't playing
anything even closely related to D&D while I was younger.
The edition they introduced me to and that we still play
mostly is 3.5 edition.
My first character that I actually made started out as a
Druid. As I got more into the game I found my father-in-laws Psionics books and
loved them. I multi-classed my Druid into a Psion (shaper) as well which
completely destroyed the play-ability of the character from what I could tell.
He let me kill it off and replace it with a full on Psion which is still my
favorite character at this time.
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