Sunday, February 23, 2014

We have see the character sheet and a little about D&D. There is more to D&D  then telling a story or creating a character. D&D is finding the right people to hang out with to play because how the game flows also determines how people interact with other in the group. the mood of the group dictates how the game will go if the GM/DM is in a foul mood be ready to say good by to your character.
here is a picture that shows the characters were not sneaky enough to not wake up the dungeon of skeletons.  when entering any place you should always be aware that there are dangers around every corner and traps every were. Having a good rouge in your group or ninja, ranger or scout any one who  disarm traps find traps is a must in the group so is a good healer. other wise you need to bring a lot of healing pots and herbs to keep you butt from dying. The problem with traps is that they can age you. Some traps can reduce your level., and others are just damaging traps like acid fire or some other hit points damaging trap. to get a character sheet to start working on creating your character you can got to  http://www.wizards.com/dnd/ or you can buy one from any game shop and write it down. The people in my group have gotten a little more high tec then that. We have gone to the wizards of the coast and downloaded their character sheet and used it in adobe reader and set up a working template sheet and pasted it around the group to use on there laptops or tablets. We also have downloaded a dice roller to help keep down the amount of dice you need to roll. The problem is the higher the lvl you are the more dice you use for damage if you hit the creature. For instance if you hit a dragon and you are lvl 12 you may have a weapon that dose 10d8. That means you have to get 10 dice that are 8 sided to roll for damage, that is a lot of dice to carry around with you to your group. That is why a lot of use  the apps that allow for you to use multiple dice.http://www.wizards.com/dnd/dice/dice.htm. the next step is how to get our maps on the tv so that everyone can see at the same time or the lay out of the dungeon we are about to embark on. That is the next step. I already have two friends of mine that Skype in to the game every Friday. so we are a tec group of gamers plus we are hard core gamers some of us have been playing since we were 12.

Sunday, February 16, 2014

What is D and D

You may ask  what is D and D or Dungeons&Dragons? Well D&D is a game were you invent a character by reading the players handbook. you also need to find out if the people you plan to join are playing 3.0 or 3.5. This matters because the rules of spells change and the duration of them. In D&D the character matters for in every campaign what the characters are helps the Dungeon Master or Game Master how every you want to call them plan the monsters to throws at the players. One rule that every player needs to be aware of is that rule zero the GM is god and they rule the game. I means don't make your GM/DM mad. D&D is about telling a story with real characters. The GM tells the story and throws the player in a world for them to manipulate. The best thing in D&D is no matter what you do to plan the way the game ends or begins is always different because of the live player factor there have been times when a DM/GM planed to have the players go one way and the players decide that they want to do something totally different. There was one time that the DM/GM threw a couple of large frogs at us and a Blue dragon at us and one of the characters decide to take over one of the frogs and the commence to eat the dragon. This is an achevement in its self for Blue is hard to kill for frichtful presents makes it hard to kill a dragon unless you beat it by making your will save which is a state that every character has and you roll a D20 or 20 sided dice and see if you beat the spell. once you do then you can kill the dragon just watch out for it breath weapon which is lighting ouch. But the GM/DM was surprised that we did this so anything can happen. Once you get you your character sheet and your set of 7 dices which contains one D20, one D12, two D10's, one D8, D6 and D4. Each dice is use for skills or your damage once you roll to see if you hit the monster. here is what a character sheet looks like.

 
once you have character and dice its time to put together where you character is from and why it is on this adventure with the others. Some times the DM/GM likes to throw the characters in together in a bar or in a fight right away. just so the characters have away to interact with each other in the story.