D&D confession/tabletop rpg thread

[Bingo]

You can play it online nowadays which is what we do...

Roll20 is the graphic interface and just use teamspeak to talk

 

[strung out]

Not sure how many regular players there are on the boards now, but my wife has written a DnD 5e horror one-shot, inspired by the Malaysian ghost stories her mum used to tell her as a child, called Mists & Shadows: Call of the Hantu

It's available for free PDF download on her Patreon (you will need to have a Patreon account, but don't need to subscribe). It comes fully illustrated and edited, and is extremely high quality. I hope anyone interested will be able to make use of it!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/mists-shadows-of-57965724

 

[xenon]

^ Cheers strung out
I'm gonna share that with our group. I've been playing on Roll20 since last spring. Originally as something to do during lockdown. Playing with a couple of mates I've known several years and some other guys they know. There's been a regular 4 of us with couple others now and then.

I've never played D&D as a kid, so still really getting my head round it. As long as I know what to role I'm good. I make notes. On our second D&D 5E campaign. Have done a Star Wars one, and a 1960s horror type one.

Highest role I've been is an 8th level chaotic good sourcerer.

It kinda struck home in the summer when I realised, here I was one of 5 nerdy blokes in doors playing D&D on the internet on a hot summer's night when the pubs are open.

 

[killer b]

Not sure how many regular players there are on the boards now, but my wife has written a DnD 5e horror one-shot, inspired by the Malaysian ghost stories her mum used to tell her as a child, called Mists & Shadows: Call of the Hantu

It's available for free PDF download on her Patreon (you will need to have a Patreon account, but don't need to subscribe). It comes fully illustrated and edited, and is extremely high quality. I hope anyone interested will be able to make use of it!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/mists-shadows-of-57965724

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ooh. my 11 year old plays D&D, will it be ok for him or too horrific?

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I met a group via a work friend and have been playing with them for the last few years.

The main campaign we have going is pathfinder. We have been using roll20 since the start of the pandemic.

Got to experience a couple of systems including warhammer fantasy role play, 4e (not a huge fan), conan, paranoia (briefly), LOTR, and 5e (although I have not playedthose last 2 yet).

It takes some time to settle into tabletop role play but the stories you get end up being great.

 

[Ming]

I met a group via a work friend and have been playing with them for the last few years.

The main campaign we have going is pathfinder. We have been using roll20 since the start of the pandemic.

Got to experience a couple of systems including warhammer fantasy role play, 4e (not a huge fan), conan, paranoia (briefly), LOTR, and 5e (although I have not playedthose last 2 yet).

It takes some time to settle into tabletop role play but the stories you get end up being great.

Tabletop‘s much more fun than computer. Something about physically rolling dice. I remember a great game as an undergraduate on Christmas break. One of my usual group brought a uni mate back to the Wirral and we decided to have a one day game (i was DMing). I told the new guy he was a doppelganger and to do his best to kill the whole party. This guy was a masterful liar. He ended up completing his task with relish. Maybe the best game I’ve ever refereed.

 

[Chilli.s]

Passed this on to the offspring thank you strung out, apparently your wife's fame precedes her as they know some of her work

 

[strung out]

ooh. my 11 year old plays D&D, will it be ok for him or too horrific?

I just asked my wife, and she reckons it will probably be fine - there is one instance of a monster coughing up blood, but mostly just gentle scares apart from that. If someone else is the DM, then it will also be up to them how scary they choose to make it with their descriptions etc.!

 

[strung out]

Passed this on to the offspring thank you strung out, apparently your wife's fame precedes her as they know some of her work

She was chuffed to hear that

If you're into the online/streaming world of DnD then it probably is likely you've heard of her

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

I spoke to my parents last week and they mentioned that they found a few boxes of my old stuff in the loft and brought it down for me to look into when I will be next down.

Now I'm here I've found that it was five boxes of my old D&D / AD&D / Warhammer figures I thought they had been thrown out decades ago.





It's going to take ages to go through and sort them, tempted to pick up the brush again start painting again now that I've quit my job

 

[locomotive]

I love D&D for about 5 sessions, then have to stop. I've played with 3 different groups and it's always been the same.

I begin to wonder 'Why are we doing this?' and 'To beat the bad guys.' isn't a good enough answer.


What have been good motivating factors in campaigns people have played?

 

[BoxRoom]

I spoke to my parents last week and they mentioned that they found a few boxes of my old stuff in the loft and brought it down for me to look into when I will be next down.

Now I'm here I've found that it was five boxes of my old D&D / AD&D / Warhammer figures I thought they had been thrown out decades ago.

It's going to take ages to go through and sort them, tempted to pick up the brush again start painting again now that I've quit my job

I've recently started painting these again, find it really therapeutic. I'm not fantastic at it but don't do too bad I reckon.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I love D&D for about 5 sessions, then have to stop. I've played with 3 different groups and it's always been the same.

I begin to wonder 'Why are we doing this?' and 'To beat the bad guys.' isn't a good enough answer.


What have been good motivating factors in campaigns people have played?

Try to run campaigns where the lines between good and bad are a bit more blurred, in both the story/plot arcs as well as the player characters and NPC’s. Good people forced to make tough choices, enemy of my enemy is my friend etc.

I’m currently playing a halfling rogue whose moral compass is… flexible at best, and it’s great fun.

 

[Ming]

Quite a few Hollywood types play D&D.

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[Ming]

Just bought the 5e rule set! Can’t fucking wait to start again. Got a DM and I’m playing. just need to get three more players (tabletop). I’ve got Curse of Strahd and Hoard of the Dragon Queen to play. Rolling dice is way better than computer gaming. And the DM’s just got me back in to Warhammer (tabletop) so much painting of tiny lead orcs is also on the horizon. Stoked. Love his stuff.

 

[furluxor]

I’ve got Curse of Strahd

I'm playing that now!
I've been playing on-and-off for years, the longest campaign lasted three years. Tried playing online as well but in the end decided against it, I struggle to maintain focus and the energy is not the same. But in person, with a good group, oh it's total magic!

 

[xenon]

Still playing. Been on the same campaign for about 9 months now. My mate the DM< has written a good story, horror elements, more scope for exploration and non combat puzzle solving / interaction. I'm a rogue, with no magic powers but quite handy with short bow and mimick / disguise skills. This has lead to some really hammy acting on my part.

 

[xenon]

We've played a few table top games IRL too. Again new to me but quite enjoyed a war Hammer sub game, gang warfare thing we did the other week.

 

[DotCommunist]

We've played a few table top games IRL too. Again new to me but quite enjoyed a war Hammer sub game, gang warfare thing we did the other week.

necromunda or mordhiem? of all the warhammer games the only I'd be keen to look at playing again is those two. Or possibly Kill Team. Skirmish wargames rather than full war.

 

[xenon]

necromunda or mordhiem? of all the warhammer games the only I'd be keen to look at playing again is those two. Or possibly Kill Team. Skirmish wargames rather than full war.

Yep was necromunda. I was on the Eshers (SP) side. We lost but it was close... Mates have got Kill Team and Blood Bowl too.

Heroes Quest is quite good as well for a quick D&D style table top. Much simpler rules and spell options.

 

[Crispy]

I lost my D&D virginity at the beginning of the first 2020 lockdown, when I started running the 5e starter campaign for a group of current/former urbanites (who are free to conceal/reveal their identities here ). Some of them were veterans and some were also virgins. We got through that adventure in six months of weekly sessions on Roll20 and it was great. The highlight of my week in those dark times. I rolled my own continuation of the plot, which led to making up a whole large town with political intrigue and a looming external threat being used/manipulated for nefarious purposes.

That Halloween we took a detour to a spoooooky mansion 3rd-party adventure where I nearly killed them all with a Zombie Beholder. lol.
Around this time I switched over to FoundryVTT (self hosted) instead of Roll20. It's not got the closely-linked 5e content that Roll20 has, but the interface is miles better and it's much less buggy.

As the culmination of a long plot I sent them all off on what was supposed to be a reconnaisance mission to the big bad's HQ but they decided to fight him there and then in a real-months-long and gloriously tense battle during which two PCs died. This entirely negated the 3rd Act I had planned (building and driving an enormous golden golem in a fight against a giant walking tree, power rangers style) but this is a Story We Tell Together so no hard feelings. That took us up to June 2021.

New characters rolled and introduced, I sent them off for a palate cleansing adventure to what turned out to be an ancient crash-landed alien spaceship, where they picked up all sorts of weird gadgets and a new player joined the party. Also someone got a pet baby manticore for reasons.

Since then, we've been playing Into Wonderland, a 3rd party campaign setting in the Feywild. All sorts of weird settings and characters. I ended up adapting/modifying it quite a lot, including a whole new subplot for our new player who is a Warlock with a Fey patron. They're currently just starting the final confrontation and it's going really really badly for them. I misremembered the recommended player levels and almost killed them all in the first round I'm sure we'll figure something out.

I'm going to have considerably less time soon, so will have to hang my DM hat up after this battle, but it really has been a lot of fun. Wish I'd picked it up earlier in life.

Some random highlights:

Getting a blacksmith to make wheel clamps for the baddies' wagon
The pickled Drow head that just wouldn't go away
The Siege of Tillbrook complete with squad-level units
That time all the barbarians kept falling in the river
Getting shrunk and blinded, so she had her familiar sit on her head and do all the seeing for her
Becoming a god for a small band of fish-men
Training that bloody manticore
Shoving a grenade down a giant boar's throat, which I had to admit would concentrate all the potential area damage into one target. A bit messy, that one
Being transformed into a menagarie of previous foes, in a map made of previous encounters all smooshed together, then having to fight their own player characters.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I lost my D&D virginity at the beginning of the first 2020 lockdown, when I started running the 5e starter campaign for a group of current/former urbanites (who are free to conceal/reveal their identities here ). Some of them were veterans and some were also virgins. We got through that adventure in six months of weekly sessions on Roll20 and it was great. The highlight of my week in those dark times. I rolled my own continuation of the plot, which led to making up a whole large town with political intrigue and a looming external threat being used/manipulated for nefarious purposes.

That Halloween we took a detour to a spoooooky mansion 3rd-party adventure where I nearly killed them all with a Zombie Beholder. lol.
Around this time I switched over to FoundryVTT (self hosted) instead of Roll20. It's not got the closely-linked 5e content that Roll20 has, but the interface is miles better and it's much less buggy.

As the culmination of a long plot I sent them all off on what was supposed to be a reconnaisance mission to the big bad's HQ but they decided to fight him there and then in a real-months-long and gloriously tense battle during which two PCs died. This entirely negated the 3rd Act I had planned (building and driving an enormous golden golem in a fight against a giant walking tree, power rangers style) but this is a Story We Tell Together so no hard feelings. That took us up to June 2021.

New characters rolled and introduced, I sent them off for a palate cleansing adventure to what turned out to be an ancient crash-landed alien spaceship, where they picked up all sorts of weird gadgets and a new player joined the party. Also someone got a pet baby manticore for reasons.

Since then, we've been playing Into Wonderland, a 3rd party campaign setting in the Feywild. All sorts of weird settings and characters. I ended up adapting/modifying it quite a lot, including a whole new subplot for our new player who is a Warlock with a Fey patron. They're currently just starting the final confrontation and it's going really really badly for them. I misremembered the recommended player levels and almost killed them all in the first round I'm sure we'll figure something out.

I'm going to have considerably less time soon, so will have to hang my DM hat up after this battle, but it really has been a lot of fun. Wish I'd picked it up earlier in life.

Some random highlights:

Getting a blacksmith to make wheel clamps for the baddies' wagon
The pickled Drow head that just wouldn't go away
The Siege of Tillbrook complete with squad-level units
That time all the barbarians kept falling in the river
Getting shrunk and blinded, so she had her familiar sit on her head and do all the seeing for her
Becoming a god for a small band of fish-men
Training that bloody manticore
Shoving a grenade down a giant boar's throat, which I had to admit would concentrate all the potential area damage into one target. A bit messy, that one
Being transformed into a menagarie of previous foes, in a map made of previous encounters all smooshed together, then having to fight their own player characters.

It’s been fun

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Sounds epic.

I really need to get a campaign going.

I have roll20 and foundry.

I'm thinking of doing call of cuthulu but more as a horror comedy.

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

Down at my parents again and have found a pack of Games Workshop's 'Citadel Combat Cards' at the back of a cupboard that I was clearing out.

Must challenge my nine year old neice to a game the next time I see her.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Nice, looks like one I had back in the old days

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Down at my parents again and have found a pack of Games Workshop's 'Citadel Combat Cards' at the back of a cupboard that I was clearing out.

Must challenge my nine year old neice to a game the next time I see her.

I had that very pack when I was younger

 

[kalmatthew]

I play one game and GM another the one I run started as phandelver and then hopped into tyranny of dragons. The game I'm a player in is entirely home brew.

Not sure how many regular players there are on the boards now, but my wife has written a DnD 5e horror one-shot, inspired by the Malaysian ghost stories her mum used to tell her as a child, called Mists & Shadows: Call of the Hantu

It's available for free PDF download on her Patreon (you will need to have a Patreon account, but don't need to subscribe). It comes fully illustrated and edited, and is extremely high quality. I hope anyone interested will be able to make use of it!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/mists-shadows-of-57965724

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Is this still available somewhere? I'd be really interested to see it.

 

[strung out]

I play one game and GM another the one I run started as phandelver and then hopped into tyranny of dragons. The game I'm a player in is entirely home brew.


Is this still available somewhere? I'd be really interested to see it.

She's moved it to her website now for free download

Mists & Shadows: Call of the Hantu (5e D&D adventure)

Deep in a decaying rain forest, another child has gone missing from a village haunted by a shapeshifting undead Darklord, the Pontianak. The charming chief of Darul Naim Kampung promises riches and rewards for the girl’s return, but secretly is a second Darklord, whose mutual loathing of the...

www.nanokim.co.uk

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I couldn't find any similar thread so here I am starting one.

The term "tabletop RPG" really means traditional RPGs that you could play with people around a table - the most famous example being D&D of course but there are far more (and far better IMO). Nowadays you don't have to sit around a table to play them - there are VTTs, virtual tabletops, those really took off over lockdown, but had become more popular anyway because grown-ups have a lot of trouble scheduling time and can't just pop round to each other's flats so easily once they have jobs and kids and all that.

I find it hard to believe that there are no other people here with this sort of classically nerdy interest. It has kept me going a lot over the last couple of years - I ran a Starfinder game for a long time, and am now running CY_BORG. So anyway, TTRPGs, if you're interested or play them or don't know what I'm talking about why not post.

 

[maomao]

I'm supposed to be starting an RPG club where I work in November despite not having played in thirty years so interested in participating. I only played briefly but I spent a year aged twelve poring over AD&D books.