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Anyone remember Lee's abortive IRC D&D game? I do. The flaming owlbears. The anime-inspired characters. The long, drawn-out, over-descriptive, extremely DETAILED descriptions. Ah the memories.

But I digress. For the past month or so, I've been running a Dungeons and Dragons character on SA, using the latest edition, version 3.5. The game is titled "Insert Coin to Continue". It's a game unlike your standard D&D, in the sense that there are no NPCs except enemies, no locations except battlegrounds, and nothing to do except fight.

The game is entirely focused on combat. Free-form roleplaying *is* possible on forums, but it takes forever and I find it hard to get into, as a player or as a DM.

Insert Coin is set up like the old-school beat 'em ups that were so popular in the late 80s, such as Double Dragon. The players face multiple waves of enemies, followed by a boss. After the boss, they level up, get some treasure, and start again.

The other focus of IC is the humor. Each player's post is typically followed by a brief monologue, usually humorous in nature. The enemies tend to be a bit absurd as well. My players on SA are currently facing a small army of explosive kobolds, much like the headless kamikazes from Serious Sam. The kobolds are currently using catapults to hurl themselves at the players.

If anyone is interested, I'd like to start up a game here, on WHS.  Even if you've never played D&D before, but want to play, let me know.

The new rules for the new edition are avaliable free of charge. These core rules are known as the System Reference Document. You can find the SRD right here (http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/srd.html).

For those of you who are familiar with the sytem, here's the rules you'll need to know. "Core" refers to the three main D&D sourcebooks: the players handbook, the dungeon master's guide, and the monster manual.

Starting level: 1
Starting wealth: standard (see class descriptions)
Stats: 32 point buy  (see D&D Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5 page 169).
Hit Points: Max at first level, 75% of max thereafter
Races avaliable: Any core race
Classes avaliable: Any core class

For those of you who are NOT familiar with the system, but want to play, post here and I'll help as much as possible. I'll expect everyone who plays to post in a timely manner, to keep things moving along.

This sounds like a fresh and exciting game totally unlike anything I've played before!

yeah sure i'll play

i'm a mad D&D Nut

and regularly Play D&D Adv, plus Neverwinter nights

NO ONE CAN BEAT THE DWARFS

mwhaaaaa haa haa

seriously though if your starting why not

Sounds interesting. I'll give it a whirl.
 :zzz:

Neat...I've played AD&D for almost 20 years. 15 of which as a DM. I'm intrested. Though I've never played the 3rd edition. I'll have to check out the rules. :thumb:

Yay, I've got at least four players then.

Anyone else interested?

If it's not too complicated i'll try it if you want.

So Con

will we have the same scope for multi-classing like the original 3rd Edition

as my old Fighter / Rogue / Black Guard Combo will be cool in this instance

speaking of Black Guard

will we be allowing prestige classes, such as the Blackguard or not

cause it will really throw a spanner in the works for my usual

sneak attack 5x Damage, plus Contagion = Very Weakened Anything (Inc the old Balrog) :D

as if Blackguard isn't allowed i may just have to come up with something different which will kill my usual strategy of Weaken then Cripple :(

so con i could really do with knowing before we start :thumb:

Anything from the core 3.5 books is game, including the blackguard. You just have to meet the requirements for any prestige class you want.

All of the game info is above. Everyone be making with the character creation, please.

Anyone who wants to play, but doesn't know how to make a character, contact me ASAP and I'll help. You can email me at confusedus@gmail.com or PM me here on the boards

Excellent

so how do you want the information

a Standard Txt Document

or Microsoft Word Based affair

and like Con if anybody needs help with Creating Evil Characters (My Speciality)

then I'll Help

Oh Con

do we need to come with a back story for the characters or will just a stat sheet suffice

as if it's a full sheet

i already have one ready, as it's just my usual template

of Disgraced Dwarfen Priest

renounces Helm and begin the path of darkness, being evil and vengeful against the religon he used to serve faithfully

which is the whole Fighter / Rogue / Blackguard thing.

due to the fact there are a few people who have never played. will we be doing Stone Keep

as it's usually a good training campaign

especially the room with the rust monster

just let me know what's going to happen and i'll sort out what i'll need  :smirk:

HTML or TXT-based for the character sheets

No backstory needed (but you might get a bonus item for a good one). Evil is OK, but you are not allowed to kill your teammates on purpose. If you become disruptive you will be eaten by a grue.

There really is no story worth mentioning, you just  beat up monsters in humurous ways.

No Killing your Teammates

what kind of D&D game would that be

One in which annoying, angsty "I'm evil so I kill anything that breathes" players are not welcome.

Well i'm not talking random slaughter as that's insane

it's just if were keeping to AD&D

then to become a Blackguard

i need to murder at least 1 innocent person

it's like the assasin prestige class in that respect

when i said Killing Team Mates

I mean't the above thing

as once you hit around lvl 12 - 13 you usually have all the requirements

such as

Cleave
Hide ( 8 ranks)
Move Silently (8 Ranks)

the only thing you have to do is make sure your an evil alignment

so Lawful Evil, Neutral Evil or Chaotic Evil

and to murder an innocent

then volia you can become a blackguard

as long as i don't have to kill a team mate it will still work

heh, whatever.

If anyone's still interested in this, please be making your characters

Heh, I'll give it a go. Its been a long while since I did anything DnD. I don't know anything about what's changed in 3.5 though, will that be a problem?

Casts Harpers Call on the thread.


Whatever happened to this?
I'd be interested if your still thinking about running with it Con

EDIT: Also, check out OpenRPG.com
Its an opensource online pnp-style client.
I'd say check out Fantasy Grounds as well, if it didnt cost $20

I will try it out, but how do you make a character?
P.S. I'm a lam3r at this stuff. ;^p