Dungeons & Dragons is DEAD, Long Live D&D
So, I played D&D since it was AD&D back in the early 80s. I had the dungeon masters guide with the Efreet on it. My first box set was the Expert Set with the Isle of Dread module.
The Basic set was old out, and I always want to jump ahead of the curve..lol.
Fantasy films such as Conan the Barbarian, Excalibur, Hawk the Slayer, Hearts & Armour, and the Sword & the Sorcerer fueled my imagination. I joined fighting groups such as SCA and MMS. the latter was a bunch of costumed crazies bashing each other with foam swords and throwing kush balls as fireballs.
I go home and greedily make my first 10 characters!! At least, that's how many I made before my sadistic DM finally couldn't kill my, bestest!! Half-elf fighter mage...he survived the Keep on the Borderlands...The Drows in Demon pits, the Giants, The Kutoas, the Tombs of horror, And then there was the Expedition.... something's amiss in the Land of Greyhawk. Something wonderful? So begins our biggest adventure. What kind of magic item will we plunder here? What race shall we destroy? Even the gods shall tremble before our *shakes fist to sky*...er.. Wait...I'm dead!? Damn you laser weilding Mind Flayers in the Barrier Peaks. Of course it would be an evil octopod race to kill me.
I stopped playing D&D back in the mid 90s. Vampire was the thing for us goth types. So I said goodbye to the old fantasy friends...that and my first ex kept all my books. She never liked the gothy vamps anyways... she was all D&D. I met her during a battle at a Ren Faire. Eventually Fantasy gotten stale and too much drama developed in my fighting group.. So with a tear in my eye I said farewell...to the books, not the girl. I was happy to be departed from her.
Flash foward to the 2001. When I make my move to LA from San Diego. FINALLY!
I find 3 of my old Vampire friends were up here, and they helped my climatized to my surroundings. Lord of the Rings was big, and it helped fuel my lost love to D&D. Things have changed since last...it's 3.0 now! I met new people like, Coleman and Paul's room mate. But, again times are like the wind...and I say goodbye to my friends Nico and Paul as they move away.
It wasn't till I met Sara, and her friends from Rocky horror that I would get aquainted with roleplaying again. Chris, Drunk Richard, Jason, the ever absent Josh and his Mountaindew Blade! This time it's 4.0. NEW..IMPROVED..POLISHED...VIDEO GAME..controllers not included! Wait! what!? This new game doesnt feel like D&D. It's worlds of warcraft on paper!!
Everything now is balanced, cleaned up, homogenized, and just plain bland!!
Damn you TSR...er...Wizards of the coasters. You ruined my childhood!!! *insert typical fanboy whine here*
Thats when I discovered Pathfinder 3.5!! D&D like it used to be...fueling my imagination once again. I want to play again...to DM again!! Barbarians and Monks are back! All your dust collecting 3.5 books are usable again, and fighters don't have damn spells...leave that to Bards or elf fighter/magic users!!!
where's my foam sword!?
So for your info this is what Pathinder is all about:
The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (PFRPG) is a role-playing game published by Paizo Publishing that extends and modifies the Dungeons & Dragons rules from the 3.5 Edition of the game as published under the Open Game License. The PFRPG would remain backward-compatible with the 3.5 edition, while addressing some issues of that edition.
Announced in March 2008, the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game was released in August 2009.
The PFRPG supports Pathfinder adventure paths as well as other works set in the 'Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting'.
The Basic set was old out, and I always want to jump ahead of the curve..lol.
Fantasy films such as Conan the Barbarian, Excalibur, Hawk the Slayer, Hearts & Armour, and the Sword & the Sorcerer fueled my imagination. I joined fighting groups such as SCA and MMS. the latter was a bunch of costumed crazies bashing each other with foam swords and throwing kush balls as fireballs.
I go home and greedily make my first 10 characters!! At least, that's how many I made before my sadistic DM finally couldn't kill my, bestest!! Half-elf fighter mage...he survived the Keep on the Borderlands...The Drows in Demon pits, the Giants, The Kutoas, the Tombs of horror, And then there was the Expedition.... something's amiss in the Land of Greyhawk. Something wonderful? So begins our biggest adventure. What kind of magic item will we plunder here? What race shall we destroy? Even the gods shall tremble before our *shakes fist to sky*...er.. Wait...I'm dead!? Damn you laser weilding Mind Flayers in the Barrier Peaks. Of course it would be an evil octopod race to kill me.
I stopped playing D&D back in the mid 90s. Vampire was the thing for us goth types. So I said goodbye to the old fantasy friends...that and my first ex kept all my books. She never liked the gothy vamps anyways... she was all D&D. I met her during a battle at a Ren Faire. Eventually Fantasy gotten stale and too much drama developed in my fighting group.. So with a tear in my eye I said farewell...to the books, not the girl. I was happy to be departed from her.
Flash foward to the 2001. When I make my move to LA from San Diego. FINALLY!
I find 3 of my old Vampire friends were up here, and they helped my climatized to my surroundings. Lord of the Rings was big, and it helped fuel my lost love to D&D. Things have changed since last...it's 3.0 now! I met new people like, Coleman and Paul's room mate. But, again times are like the wind...and I say goodbye to my friends Nico and Paul as they move away.
It wasn't till I met Sara, and her friends from Rocky horror that I would get aquainted with roleplaying again. Chris, Drunk Richard, Jason, the ever absent Josh and his Mountaindew Blade! This time it's 4.0. NEW..IMPROVED..POLISHED...VIDEO GAME..controllers not included! Wait! what!? This new game doesnt feel like D&D. It's worlds of warcraft on paper!!
Everything now is balanced, cleaned up, homogenized, and just plain bland!!
Damn you TSR...er...Wizards of the coasters. You ruined my childhood!!! *insert typical fanboy whine here*
Thats when I discovered Pathfinder 3.5!! D&D like it used to be...fueling my imagination once again. I want to play again...to DM again!! Barbarians and Monks are back! All your dust collecting 3.5 books are usable again, and fighters don't have damn spells...leave that to Bards or elf fighter/magic users!!!
where's my foam sword!?
So for your info this is what Pathinder is all about:
The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game (PFRPG) is a role-playing game published by Paizo Publishing that extends and modifies the Dungeons & Dragons rules from the 3.5 Edition of the game as published under the Open Game License. The PFRPG would remain backward-compatible with the 3.5 edition, while addressing some issues of that edition.
Announced in March 2008, the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game was released in August 2009.
The PFRPG supports Pathfinder adventure paths as well as other works set in the 'Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting'.