# Who wants to be the Dungeon Master?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 17, 2005, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657 "2005-06-17T05:09:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/1 "2005-06-17T05:09:34Z")
Once upon a time, on a message board just like this one, _but in a parallel universe or something…_ There was a thread, in which the posters were D&D characters, and _someone_ was the dungeon master.
And it was funny as hell!
But, I can’t find it.
So, if somebody wanted to, they could volunteer to start a new one…
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### Author:  [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/2 "2005-06-17T05:28:42Z")
That sounds like fun.
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### Author:  [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/3 "2005-06-17T06:53:38Z")
As long as this isn’t a nerd trap…
If you need a DM, I can do it. OItherwise, I’m in as a player… what do we do, post a character sheet?
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### Author:  [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/4 "2005-06-17T15:16:18Z")
So, I guess nobody wants to entertain me.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/5 "2005-06-17T15:24:56Z")
Well, due to the traffic usually involved in such things, I believe the PTB discourage this type of thing here. There are plenty of other boards out there that support online RPG’s, but I don’t know much about them.
But for entertainment purposes…
A dwarf, a human and a gnome walk into a bar. The dwarf says “Ow! my nose!” The human says “Ow! My nuts!” The Gnome says “What bar?”
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### Author:  [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/6 "2005-06-17T15:29:39Z")
It was done in the style of the “new-ness” thread, not an actual RPG. I’m beginning to think I dreamed it.
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### Author:  [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/7 "2005-06-17T16:24:51Z")
:smack: More than likely, it probably started as a completely different thread, and then got hijacked into a D&D thread. That would explain why I can’t find it.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/8 "2005-06-17T16:38:53Z")
Well, if we’re talking about this in a loose, free-flowing style like “new-ness” has become, then sure…I’m down.
As I mentioned in that thread, however, you do _not_ want me to [be the DM](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5012583&postcount=98). 🙂
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### Author:  [@Corii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corii)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/9 "2005-06-17T16:44:23Z")
I cast magic missle at the darkness!
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/10 "2005-06-17T16:47:40Z")
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So much for this not being a nerd trap…
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/11 "2005-06-17T17:16:19Z")
Can I bring my changeling paladin with a pet good red dragon in from my little brother’s game? He’s only eleventy fifth level…
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### Author:  [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/12 "2005-06-17T17:28:00Z")
Which edition are you going to run? I won’t play in 2nd Edition because then fighters are screwed if they don’t have percentile strength, because then they’re completely screwed, and magic-users get screwed too at higher levels if they don’t have max intelligence, and there’s no point in playing a magic-user unless you can get level 9 spells, and you can’t get those without 18 intelligence, but fighters get screwed unless they have percentile strength, and they get screwed earlier in the game too, like at level 1, because a magic-user with a 17 intelligence won’t get too screwed until he gets to level 17, but a fighter with only a 17 strength gets screwed on every attack, because he doesn’t get the extra bonuses, so I won’t play in 2nd Edition. And d20 is also stupid because…
…oh, just fill in the rest. There’s that guy in every. single. goddamn. group.
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### Author:  [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/13 "2005-06-17T17:41:05Z")
> [@Corii](#):
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> I cast magic missle at the darkness!
I viciously attack the Gazebo with my +5 Sword of Hack-ness!
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### Author:  [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/14 "2005-06-17T18:22:24Z")
I made myself some Dungeon Master business cards in high school print shop. The guy running the press set one of the color plates wrong despite my careful layout, so I had to turn him into a floor tile.
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### Author:  [@comrade33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/comrade33)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/15 "2005-06-17T18:35:05Z")
> [@Corii](#):
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> I cast magic missle at the darkness!
i am galstaff, sorcerer of light!
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### Author:  [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/16 "2005-06-17T22:44:44Z")
> [@Corii](#):
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> I cast magic missle at the darkness!
Darkness: Owwwww, stop being a jerk.
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### Author:  [@Yamirskoonir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yamirskoonir)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/17 "2005-06-17T23:27:06Z")
_WHERE ARE THE CHEEETOS?!_
snrk
Since it’s doubtless been a while for some of us, I humbly submit [8 bit D&D.](http://www.cybermoonstudios.com/8bitDandD.html)
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2005, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/18 "2005-06-18T01:21:22Z")
**Yamirskoonir,** thank you. That was… dude.
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### Author:  [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/19 "2005-06-18T02:31:14Z")
> [@Yamirskoonir](#):
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> [8 bit D&D.](http://www.cybermoonstudios.com/8bitDandD.html)
::sniff::
That was awesome, man. 🆒
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### Author:  [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2005, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-to-be-the-dungeon-master/308657/20 "2005-06-18T05:40:29Z")
[This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=113824) one?
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