I find it unusual that I have never discussed my all-time favorite pastime, playing D&D, in a meaningful way on this blog. I’ve been posting for over three years now, and I find it surprising that I’ve never talked about it.
On my birthday we were at the local gaming shop picking up some books. I mentioned to the manager that I had not been in a game for a long while, and that I was looking to find a gaming group in the shop. He mentioned a meet-and-greet that was going to take place there in a few weeks, as well as his own campaign that he runs with his friends. They play in the town we live in, a short five-minute drive away from the house. He invited us to join, and we took him up on his offer.
After an almost two-year long hiatus from the game, Nad and I attended a character-building session; the first session of any D&D game is rolling dice and building your character. I tend to wait until everyone else chooses their character before I make my own, so that I can fill in any gaps. The D&D system is based around the four-person group: a fighter to lay the smackdown, a rogue to disarm the trap, a cleric to heal the wounded, and a wizard to blow the crap out of anything the fighter didn’t kill.
There are many different ways to play this game; our Dungeon Master (DM) has gone with the hack-and-slash Monty Haul style campaign, which means it is light on the role-playing but heavy on monster-slaying and treasure. I’ll post write-ups of the sessions as they come along.
Monty Haul is the best, except for the fact it makes Rogues suck even worse. At least when it’s story-intensive, they can be interesting. I mean really — how often do you need to pick a freaking pocket?
Sweet Will, I wish I live next to the shop also. Its also been a while for me. Its probably 5 years or more. But I really do miss a good monster bashing epic. Yea, its a good idea to keepo us informed. I once knew this Kat in colledge that played and wrote about the session, meeting after meeting. Turns around and make a book out of it. You never know, its probably on book shelves as we speak. His name is Robert Richardson.
Monty Haul campaigns are pretty much identical to dungeon crawl campaigns. So the rogue can’t pick pockets, but he can save the party from traps. I’ll go into it more in a future post, but we spent 30 minutes discussing how to enter a room that *may* be trapped.
I really should have made that rogue instead.
I’ve wanted to put together all of my past campaigns into a book, since all of the D&D games I have ever run take place in the same world. Sadly, I have two obstacles: (1) my natural laziness, and (2) my writing skills are not up to snuff.
Maybe we can do one together. I gonna need your help…
Congrats on finding a Game you two. I wish I could get into one around my way, Gaithersburg. Maybe “Lupo” can make a cameo appearance once and a while? lol
Joe…that is f’ed up!
DEATH TO LUPO!!!!!
Hey!!! I said cameo, not guest-staring
lol. Besides, by now he would be that unknown crime-boss who you’d go to for information and favors.
Anywho, when will Mr D be returning to the md/DC area?