Dungeon & Dragons memories

[Kaleva]

My character's name was Stai Radigan and I was a member of a group which had been contacted by a village being terrorized by a variety of monsters. We traveled to the village and spoke at length with the village Elders. Later, we retired to a camp set up on the outskirts to discuss the proposal.

1. The villagers were far weaker then the monsters. Otherwise, they'd have taken care of the problem themselves.

2. The village Elders figured we were more then a match for the monsters.

2. The village was offering us a great deal of money to rid the region of monsters which meant they probably had a great deal more on hand.

3. As far as could be determined, the monsters had no wealth and just liked to attack and kill villagers.

(See where this is going?)

That night, we attacked and pillaged the village and rode off rich beyond our dreams.

However, news of our misdeed traveled fast throughout the realm as we had spared the the women, children and a few of the men. Soon, a group of high level (higher then me and any of my friends) goody two shoes Paladins announced they had vowed to hunt us down and kill us without mercy. Hearing of this, I managed to sneak off from my group one night with my share of the spoils which I hid in various places. I traveled to the King's castle and enlisted as a common foot soldier thus hiding in plain sight. One by one, my former companions were killed until I was the only one that remained but was never found. An illiterate foot soldier with the name of "X" by day, I caused just enough mischief and mayham every so often at night to let the Realm know that Stai Radigan was still out there, somewhere.

[alphafemale]

1. I was an elf named Lola.

I was the "obsession" of the Dungeon Master. I pretty much could do whatever the hell i wanted in that world. lol

He rolled me a Unicorn and a Pegasus.

I doubt it was an authentic D&D experience. :evilgrin:

[Orrex]

5. "DM's option" refers to the DM's authority to tweak the rules as needed to facilitate play

"DM's girlfriend's option" refers to the DM's tendency to tweak those rules to keep his girlfriend (or would-be girlfriend) happy and playing, and to hell with everyone else.

[alphafemale]

14. lol!

[pitohui]

2. my memories a little different

the dungeon master proved to be a real world serial attempted murderer

i can't say more w.out violating the privacy of others who were taken in by the guy and are lucky not to be in prison with him now

[Mojambo]

3. Wow.

And I thought my DM was a douche for always drinking all the grape soda...

[Orrex]

6. Yeah, but was he a good DM?

[rbnyc]

4. I created a version based on the Evil Dead...

...and led the group in the Math-Science Resource Center during study hall in high school. Prior to that, I was an elvin thief who played with older men in the back room of a Chicago suburban game shop and slept with everyone.

EDIT: It would be awesome if I saw my typos in preview.

[Aristus]

7. I had two fighter characters.

A Crusader-era Arab warrior named Mohammed Al'Kish, and a Japanese samurai named Okada Yoshizumi.

My DM would replace the overhead light in his room with a blacklight. That's how we played.

[kentauros]

8. I don't remember details like that.

Only little things like playing on Friday nights at the Garriot's place in the late seventies. Dr. Garriot was pretty cool while Richard was difficult to figure out or get to know. Mrs. Garriot had a full pottery studio and was usually in it, while their garage was our gaming area for those evenings.

The really fun games were either test-gaming on friends' new gaming systems, or when we played things like Aftermath, Naval Battles, Nuclear War and Tri-ominoes

[HopeHoops]

9. We agreed (once) to let this guy DM a game - Beholder in the first room we entered.

First level characters (just created) really have no choice but to do what the damn eye says. He was not a good DM.

He was also a drooling Republican who wore polyester pants and dress shoes to high school.

Allowing in to DM was obviously a mistake and one that we did not repeat.

[Kaleva]

10. I had a Dm who made almost every NPC a high level something or another..

It was impossible to eat a good meal and drink some mead at any tavern without WWIII breaking out.

[ZombieHorde]

11. Disguise spells are available to first level wizards, but they always seem to pick magic missile.

What are one or two magic missiles going to do for the party?

Change appearance, sleep, spider climb, etc., so many better options than magic missile.

[Orrex]

19. Magic Missile sounds dirtier, though

And don't get me started about Tongues or Magic Mouth.

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. "Magic missile" is known as the "spell that shall not be named" around here, because if I call it

I always botch the roll. Yep, I definitely do better on rolls when I don't say the name. LOL

[jobycom]

12. One of my best characters was TuDagger, a fighter-thief-magician.

He sucked. I rolled average everything, so I picked the triple category, figuring he'd die off soon anyway. Even for starter money I rolled practically nothing, so his weapons were two daggers--hence the name.

That character stumbled across every valuable item in the game. He found an invisibility ring, he found a some cursed sword artifact that had bonus points but wouldn't stop until the character or the opponent was dead (and if he tried to fight with another sword, this sword would materialize. He found some ancient water bowl he couldn't use, but donated to a temple for experience points. He found a stone that gave him protection. Pretty soon he was a higher level than the others, even though he had to earn triple experience points.

By the end he was invincible. He could climb walls, cast spells, backstab with mega-bonuses.. It's been decades so I don't remember the numbers and terms, i just remember starting out having to hide from almost every fight and ending up as the one everyone hid behind.

And the best part was, I actually had a girlfriend in real life, and I didn't have to be home until hours after the game ended. :)

[Love Bug]

13. Played a ranger/bard once who was an ex-musketeer

There was a very good reason why he was an EX-musketeer: every time our group got into a melee, I'd roll and he'd always manage to hit someone in our group. It got to be pretty funny, actually. He was a good bard, though.

[Throd]

15. "When is something interesting gonna happen?"

Pretty much sums it up for me. I like the idea of the game in theory, but in practice it did little for me.

[Orsino]

16. Last week's:

Cruising through the lower two levels of the sahuagin stronghold in U3 while polymorphed into a shark, with the pseudo-dragon (bonded to me since U1) at my side, polymorphed into a remora. I essentially mapped out the whole place, in plain sight of the hundreds of enemies.

1979: Getting fried by a hell-hound as my very first character tried to leave the dungeon after a (otherwise) successful adventure.

[Hayabusa]

17. Some of mine

Getting so fed up with the actions of one player who had it out personally for me (not my character) that I fireballed the entire small room that we were in once. Two other members of the party saw where it was going and gated out of there. I ended up killing everyone else, my own character included. We were raised afterwards and nothing happened again (in character-wise) for a while.

Recently, in the D&D Encounters games, I've had quite the reputation for being sneaky. I sneak into an area, scout around and then go to tell the party what's going on. This has been going on for two seasons, the Dark Sun one where I played an Elven ranger and the current one as a Halfling thief. The thing is, about 75% of the time, I can sneak in quite well. It's the sneaking out part that always gets me...

In the second season, the entire party had been captured by halflinge, who are cannibals in the Dark Sun setting. Not wanting to be part of the soup pot, I snuck out. Turns out the party managed to get out on their own, bribing a high-ranking halfling with a good show during our escape attempt. We went to go get our weapons in the store room and find it guarded by halflings. Armed only with clubs, we charged into battle as we were spotted. The halflings raced towards a large gong that would summon the rest of the tribe when rang. I had the initiative and charged towards the halfling closest to the gong. I roll a natural 1... Fortunately, I have one more chance: when rolling a nat 1 in 4e Dark Sun, you can roll again and break your weapon. I hit and do mega damage, enough to kill the guy, if I remember correctly. Yeah, I broke a tree branch over his head.

[Kaleva]

20. "I fireballed the entire small room that we were in once."

I didn't do anything like that but a friend who was playing a magic user did. We were in a cave fighting a small band of orcs and he tells the DM he's going to cast a fireball spell. I was familiar with it and told him the spell would create a fireball much larger in volume then the cave we were in. He couldn't be dissuaded and I told the DM my character was running as fast as possible out of the cave but alas, I didn't make it and was turned to ash along with the rest of my companions, the orcs and the crispy fried magic user.

[TheMightyFavog]

18. From my d20 Modern: Urban Arcana game in college

The scene: Ex-cop and self appointed group prankster, and best friend to the group's Kender (I was bribed to allow Kender into this Particular Urban Arcana Setting... Long Story) He plays a prank on our female martial arts expert:

Martail Arts Expert (MAE): "That's it! I punch him in the balls!"

Me: Init!

MAE easily beats the Ex-Cop, then rolls a nat 20 on her attack roll and barley confirms the crit, after penalties, then rolls max damage.

Ex-Cop barely makes his Massive Damage Save...

Me: "You are in pain. Lots of pain. You swear you heard something go "crunch" on impact. Perhaps your future ability to ever have children. Unfortunately, fate has not blessed you with the gift of unconsciousness. It hurts. A LOT. You try to scream, but unfortunately the only ones able to hear you are dogs and other species capable of hearing extremely high frequencies.

*The player playing the Group's catfolk attorney now takes this opportunity start howling in pain*

Catfolk (who happens to be the girlfirend ofthe guy playing the ex-cop: ) I unsheath my claws and say "STOP. Now. Or I will do the same thing to you... *She nat 20's her intimidate check, he rolls a 1 to oppose.*

Me: "Your balls may feel like they've been hit with a sledgehammer, but at least you're still able to piss!

[Kaleva]

21. Just for fun, friends & I ran characters with the lowest abilities possible

Our adventure ended before it began as some of us were killed outright and the rest were mortally injured by a herd of cows as we attempted to cross a farmer's field.

[GreenPartyVoter]

22. My Dad let me play a Tinkerbell-style pixie. She was actually extremely handy, much like the

same little critter that shows up in the "NeverWinter Nights" video game. I also played elven rangers, bards, and wizards.

I currently am playing an elven wizard. My older son is playing an elven ranger, while also running the halfling we stumbled across recently. My younger son is playing a goliath melee dude. We lost our lady dwarf cleric recently in a fight, which totally sucks because she was our healer. x(

As far as game memories, I didn't play much because the boys involved always wanted to go hack and slash, which ironically is the same situation I now find myself in. :eyes: I do have fond memories of just hanging out when my parents were gaming, though. My kids are now 3rd generation gamers, so it's a pretty neat thing to have kept going in the family. :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. ***If you haven't discovered them yet, there are awesome gamer movies out there that

are a lot of fun!

"The Gamers" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiTEHqAeanw

"Dorkness Rising" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwtH5oQqHPg

[JCMach1]

25. Some time in the 1970's ca. about 1977-78 I was introduced to D&D

by my cousins... this was before the AD&D ruleset...

Hours of fun killing orcs and kobolds...

I still have some of my AD&D metal diecasts,,,

[GreenPartyVoter]

26. I actually got started on the board game around that time. :^)

[Kaleva]

27. The evolution of Stai Radigan

Later on, I created my own world. One that I never used but spent a great deal of time developing. Here is a short synopsis of that world and Stai Radigan.

Long ago, there was a great Empire which ruled all the known land. This Empire was constantly under strife from armed rebellion and civil wars so the Imperial Family decided to gather its best magic users and instruct them to create a being that was invincible and that would crush the rebels and usurpers once and for all. It was to be a Stai Major which contained the power of a tornado, earthquake and lightning storm. The magic users were also instructed to create Stai Minors which were to act as the personal body guards and enforcers for the military governors and members of the Imperial Family. After much work, it was done and one of their creations was a Stai Minor who was named Stai Radigan who was assigned to the governor of a backwater province and that governor was General Radigan.

With the creation of the Stais, an uneasy peace came to the Empire as it was considered futile by the rebels to try an fight a Stai Major which could knock down towers, punch thru castle walls and wipe out sections of an army with apparent ease. Years passed but the rebels were not idle as they got together their best magic users to create their own Stai Major to counter the Imperial Stai. In time, they were successful and widespread rebellion broke out again in the Empire. It wasn't long before the rebel army faced the Imperial Army, each with their respective Stai Majors. Each side had just assumed that their Stais would do their bidding but the unthinkable happened and the Stai Majors went completely out of control upon their meeting of each other and the devastation was horrific. Both armies were destroyed by the fighting Stai Majors and the calamity spread thru most of the Imperial and rebel lands. Cities, towns, ports and castles were no more.....