Anyone interested in running a plain-vanilla D&D campaign here on the boards?
I’m fairly sure this has been done before here, but I’m a rank newbie looking to play a 1st-level Human fighter, so I’m hoping some wise, kindly and patient soul will be interesting in being the DM. Anyone else up for this?
Maybe a fairly standard Forgotten Realms setting and a shortish campaign that’s suitable for starting players? I have a character I’ve put a lot of backstory into (indeed he’s the subject of a short story I’m writing), so I hope there are other players out there who’d be interested in joining the adventure.
Are there any decent online tools to manage combat/play? I remember wizards working on something, but I cant find anything other than a few DM helper tools to create monsters and print out character sheets.
What are you looking for? A forum-based game is generally going to be rather light on rolls and heavy on RP. The players usually say “I’m going to try and do this and this” and then the DM rolls the relevant dice and describes what happens.
I might be willing to run something if smiling bandit doesn’t want to.
I’d love to play as well, if there’s room. There are tremendous resources available for 3.5 at http://www.d20srd.org/, and for Pathfinder at http://www.d20pfsrd.com/ . No idea about 4.0, as I’ve never played it.
EDIT: Oh, and I’d be happy to run any class we need, though I’d prefer a cleric.
I always wanted to play D&D…how would one get started on this over a forum?
Please explain in the noobiest terms available…
If I can do this over a dumb phone I would like to try a rogue!
Some while back the long-running SDMB D&D game moved over to the Mellophant boards, where it ran quite successfully for a couple of years before petering out. There are two current games over there, neither D&D, and one of them (run by yours truly) has a slot open for another player, if anyone’s interested. The other, run by Elendil’s Heir, may have a slot or two open; you’d have to ask. They’re both good examples of how play-by-post can work at its very simplest.
it would be for complete newbies (though experienced players are welcome too)
it would be a simplified version of 1st Edition (yes, I’ve never changed )
players wouldn’t need rulebooks
players would need to be keen (say for 30 minutes every 2 days)
I’m on UK time, but that shouldn’t be a problem
Some details:
we would spend some time designing characters, with the emphasis on interesting roleplaying rather than ‘power gaming’
you would get a character sheet (so newbies can see how it works), but all die rolls are done by me
there would be two threads: the actual game with my adjudications based on your Private Messages and a thread for questions, explanations, comments and humour
you would need to send me a Private Message every two days (if you were stuck for time, I’d make your character do something obvious)
The main things about thread based games:
text based (though if somebody wanted to host it for me, I could post maps)
straightforward (I do all the calculations)
need player commitment (each adjudication only moves the game forward a bit, so you need to keep sending in orders)
NAF, you’re an experienced player. Would you kindly wait to choose your character until any newbies have chosen theirs?
That way, I can get a reasonably balanced party…
I’ve just started the companion thread to the game here:
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