Comments | cygna_hime: Fun with D&D.

cygna_hime

Fun with D&D.

Sep 23, 2007 20:48

I think I'm starting to get the hang of this system. Just starting, and it involves a lot of frantic page-ups and -downs to get to the place I put the information I need at any given moment. I'm working on it ( Read more... )

rl, d&d

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dkellis September 24 2007, 08:07:30 UTC

3.5 Edition rules, right? I don't think I'm too familiar with Modern Ravenloft, so I might be completely wrong about all this. Usually a bard is best when buffing the party, but in a low magic campaign, this may not be possible.

As for useful items, a friend of mine once played a Barbarian who carried around a goblin corpse. Whenever the party encountered a suspicious corridor or room, he'd toss the corpse ahead of him, and trigger all the traps and ambushes. The party lost all semblance of the element of surprise, but what the party Barbarian wants to do, the Barbarian gets to do.

The closest I did for that was picking up small rocks, casting Light on them, and then tossing them into darkened rooms and shadows for illumination. More prosaic, but also more hygienic.

(You'll notice that tabletop roleplayers tend to have plenty of in-jokes we'd be happy to share, plenty of gaming stories we'd be happy to share, and plenty of superstitions about dice-rolling we'd be happy to share.)

cygna_hime September 24 2007, 11:06:10 UTC

Yeah, I do a lot of buffing. And just shooting things, because why not? I have a decentish attack bonus for dex-based things. (Whoo for distance weapons!) I wonder what Rogue-like skills I can pick up, as our party doesn't have one.

You know what was seriously depressing? I rolled natural 20s on all my Search and Spot checks--when we had plenty of time to look around. Every time the DM decided to screw with us while walking through the woods and make us turn around and do a Spot check for harmless wildlife? Yeah, I rolled a 20. Can I roll above a 10 on Will saves to save my...well, will? No!