Sleep Interrupted » dungeons and dragons http://ccgi.masterclose.plus.com/weblog The blog of Andrew, Louise, Ben and Jess Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:10:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Activities non-productive http://ccgi.masterclose.plus.com/weblog/2009/04/16/activities-non-productive/ http://ccgi.masterclose.plus.com/weblog/2009/04/16/activities-non-productive/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:41:54 +0000 Andrew http://ccgi.masterclose.plus.com/weblog/?p=667 Pretty quiet round these parts, eh? This has mostly been due to me wasting huge amounts of time playing Arcanum (something I last did a few years ago) to get some sort of RPG fix after my recent D&D revelation. This time I’m playing a couple of different characters in parallel, including a thief, which is turning out to be more enjoyable than I expected, as well as showing an entirely different facet of the game.

This post is brought to you, again, by the D&D podcast. Today I went back to the first Penny Arcade / PvP podcast. This is a really good introduction to the world of D&D as it features some new players learning to play the game for the first time, having never rolled a D20 in their lives. For veteran players this also has some commentary by the DM on the changes present in 4E.

Now, if anyone out there is interested in giving this D&D lark a go, please let me know!

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When I was younger and actually playing these games, I always preferred to run them, be the GM. I guess that way I could never suffer the lows of losing but the flip side was I never got the highs of winning. So, part of me would love to be just a player now, but if I have to run things myself to make it happen, that’s fine too. I dreamed of becoming a proper DM. Maybe I’ll get there, albeit 20 years late.

I also think this would be something awesome to get Ben and Jessica into, something fun for us to share. Clearly they’re years away from it currently but the years tick past quickly enough, so perhaps I should start preparing now.

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