Currently have a Barbarian 3/Druid 2 Half Orc. He's the super tank. Totem path with bear for first pick. Half damage from everything non-psychic when raging. Wildshape 2/day with the ability to heal while wild shaped. Still plan one day to take Barbarian 3/Rogue 17....new special edition of fun

Someone hasn't seen a Halfling rogue steal every coin in a town before.

why not a halfling barbarian. nothing more intimidating that a half pint out drink everyone in the tavern and proceed to body slam that asshole who dares call him "short"

everyone's seen that.

Pen and Paper RPGs can either be like the steroetypes where there is dudes in a basement using figurines and talkin with ****** accents, or it can be a group of people sitting back and talking out a story with their characters using only their imagination or dice. All groups are fun and different, you just need to find a group, set up, DM, and setting for you. The settings or set up are easy to do because your going to agree to that before anyone even rolls characters. DM and group are a bit trickier, the real issue is making sure that DMs dont pull the "special snow flake" or "rail roading" BS that they can pull. Power gaming players are annoying but easy to deal with. The biggest issue is making sure everyone is into it, especially new players. It really sucks to start a group and have half of them leave by the third session.

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I only played about 30 Minutes of a practice run tho. :c

Ok, we got a good foundation then.

Edition? Idk, the DM Made one up.
It was like 2 Years ago my memory isn't so good.

I don't remember much about it.

Yeah the guy was pretty chill about it.
He even made everyone in the party a character.

Here's how the game works, at least for 4th Edition D&D There's lots of versions out there

There's a DM and some players, the DM is in charge. The DMs power is absolute, if you don't like it then you have to talk to them out of the game or leave. The players can try to do anything they want, and have to roll to see if they succeed on the more difficult tasks.

Rolling works like this - You have a set of skills. Your stats affect your skills, for example having a high dexterity improves your thievery skill. You can also train your skill, or have a background benefit, or some such. All of which increases your skill. Suppose you had a total of +10 to your thievery, and you wanted to pick the lock of a door. The DM decides on a Difficulty Check (DC for short), say that it's 25. You roll a 20 sided dice and add your bonus. In this case, if I rolled a 14 I would barely fail to unlock the door, whereas on a 19 I would easily do it.

Sometimes the DM decides the outcome of a success, sometimes you have to roll other dice. For example, in the example of unlocking the door, the DM would just tell me it was open now. In a fight however, I would have to roll other dice to see how much I hurt them. In this case, the enemy would have a defense that I would roll against. If their defense was 20 and I rolled a total of 25, I'd hit. I'd then have to roll another dice, say an eight sided one, to determine how much damage I actually do.

Nice, sounds fun!

Thanks for explaining it to me,

Oh, it's great. We have a text file full of out of context quotes said in full seriousness during a game. Here's a couple of my favorites.

"This is all well and good, but she's not lactating so it won't work."

"You disgusting mammals with your nipples and your menstrual cycles."

"You discover the trees are quite placid."
"I thought you said flaccid."
"Yes, flaccid oak trees."

"It shows up on his book as ink, not semen. You cannot transmit your semen across the kingdom."

I say "Hail!"
The guard replies, "No, it's a clear day."

"I am the noble Lord Theren. And this is my gigolo."

"Ever since I was born, I've felt like I was never really valued by the world."
"Sorry, what was that?"

IIRC there is, on the opening page of every D&D rulebook a little blurb saying that these rules are fully up to the interpretation of the DM at any given time and that the DM is always right

Fire and Webs...don't mix. One of our sessions the spellcaster tossed fire at the webs in the giant spiders room..except there were captives we were supposed to rescue on said web as the fire was spreading. Good thing my character took levels of druid so I was able to wildshape into a spider and get to them.

Aw, that cute almost normal dnd player and the bookish "normal" girl. How starcrossed.

You're late for the party.

Isn't it fundamentally just rolling skills/stengths or whatever they're called, knowing racials and stuff, and picking out special skills (out of a huge ass list) alongside like classes

Out barbarian once woke a dragon...when we where level 5. It was a map from the internet with a story by our DM - it was sheer bad luck that we even entered that part of the map
Only our magician died, tho.
I (thieve) talked him into letting me go by telling him I´m just a messenger by some other monster we killed in the adventure before.
Our cleric took the time to subdue himself in the ground, only his nose showing to breathe (he lost the nose, though) and our other characters managed to flee while I talked to the dragon and our magician heroically gave his life to buy them time.

it was neat.