emulegs
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Post by emulegs on Dec 25, 2014 3:01:25 GMT
I always like hearing about how everyones first time playing a tabletop RPG, especially those moments that get you hooked on it. Figured I'd share mine to get the ball rolling.
In highschool I joined halfway through my friends D&D 3.5 campaign. It was a largely silly affair. My character was a 21st century office clerk who liked camping a lot (hence his ranger class), sent through time/dimensions (cuz magic) who was locked in the same jail cell in the basement of a crystal tower.
I told you it was silly.
What got me hooked was shortly after we escaped the tower when I, using a bar of soap in a sock as an improvised weapon, climbed a giant spider mount and started bludgeoning the sorceress riding it. At least until our parties "pyromancer" clung on to the belly of the spider and cast a self destruct spell, launching the spider and the sorceress farther than any of us could see.
Then the DM killed us in our sleep at the next local inn.
So how about you?
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Post by yd12k on Dec 25, 2014 13:41:19 GMT
My first experience was/is (it's ongoing) my friends homebrew system. I played a marine that had every single superhero origin story. I was one of the less silly characters. The least silly must have been super average dude, who was average in every way, and also simultaneously Jesus and Snow White. Other characters included a perpetually high aristocat [sic], a spacebear with bladder issues and of course the lawful good skeleton with the superpower of having watched all anime ever.
Our exploits include: skipping a dungeon by infighting so hard we punched eachother through the wall, getting stuck behind an energy field that turned out just not to interact with matter (It didn't matter at all!), stealing bikes from heaven and managing to go weast.
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Post by Moonjuice7 on Dec 27, 2014 3:06:29 GMT
My first campaign was a pathfinder with a few amount of homebrew rules thrown in. Our party had a lot of fun. I was a rogue, and we had another rogue, a ranger, and a monk in the party. At level 5 the two thieves managed to raid the shipping warehouse of the largest port in the campaign, making off with +3 level weapons. Over the course of the campaign we talked our way out of almost every encounter, managed to make nobles of half the party, and by the end, 3 of the four became gods. Too bad one of the three decided to detonate the planet by planting a crystal that grew as it absorbed energy, usually from magma. The crystal than shattered the planet and killed all non deities. It got me hooked.
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Post by annajiejie on Dec 27, 2014 3:21:11 GMT
Those all sound fantastic.
While not the first experience I had in the game, exactly, I had a lot of fun with my PC's character arc in my introductory D&D game. He was a rogue, cynical and snarky, with a very weird set of values. He didn't get on that well with some of the other PCs (though the other players and I got along well), and the game culminated in him running off with the antagonist's daughter. I think the most memorable scene for me was him running through the back alleys of the city, pulling the daughter behind him, as one of the party mages slung fire spells at them.
The funniest moment, though, was when we found a library tower in the middle of nowhere. The other party mage decided to steal all the books she could - 60 pounds of them, after we worked out the math with her mage hands - despite there being numerous signs saying "don't take the books." After the librarian caught us in the act, he asked us why we had so many books.
"Well," said the mage, "You see, I have a disease..."
Without skipping a beat, the librarian replied "Is that disease stupidity?"
He then revealed himself to be a lich and very nearly wiped the floor with us.
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Post by frostedcupcake on Dec 27, 2014 3:28:57 GMT
The funniest moment, though, was when we found a library tower in the middle of nowhere. The other party mage decided to steal all the books she could - 60 pounds of them, after we worked out the math with her mage hands - despite there being numerous signs saying "don't take the books." After the librarian caught us in the act, he asked us why we had so many books. "Well," said the mage, "You see, I have a disease..." Without skipping a beat, the librarian replied "Is that disease stupidity?" He then revealed himself to be a lich and very nearly wiped the floor with us. That lich sounds like a baelnorn or something. Protecting the library and then these adventurers come there to ruin his day XD |
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Post by annajiejie on Dec 27, 2014 3:36:14 GMT
That lich sounds like a baelnorn or something. Protecting the library and then these adventurers come there to ruin his day XD Not a baelnorn, sadly. Just a crotchety old man who liked books. He ended up being one of the primary antagonists, too. |
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Post by emulegs on Dec 27, 2014 5:19:09 GMT
I think the most memorable scene for me was him running through the back alleys of the city, pulling the daughter behind him, as one of the party mages slung fire spells at them. True love knows no bounds |
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Post by annajiejie on Dec 27, 2014 5:30:20 GMT
I think the most memorable scene for me was him running through the back alleys of the city, pulling the daughter behind him, as one of the party mages slung fire spells at them. True love knows no bounds No it does not. And oh what fun we had when my character was fighting alongside the villains during the final session... |
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Post by Martian on Feb 11, 2015 13:52:53 GMT
I am pleased to say that I had the stereotypical intro to DnD way back in the 90s. I think it was grade ten or so when my best buddy invited me out to try this different kind of game with his older cousin.
Four of us all told- me and the cousin were the dorks, then my buddy who was slightly a jock, and another guy who I only knew from high school who would have been entirely comfortable with being called an edgelord- satanic shirts and all that. We got together in a dingy basement, settled around the table with plenty of pop and chips (yes, doritos too,) and started to roll dice in an ADnD game.
It was glorious. Never had such fun been had, and never again have I come close to that dorkly nirvana, though I have tried.
The cousin was the prototypical munchkin, with his very own GM-NPC that embodied everything awful about GM-NPCs. A warrior wizard with his own castle, leading us level-ones into dragon lairs for no other reason than 'because'. My warrior got a sword of Sharpness the first day out.
Good times. We played all through the rest of high school, was good fun, though I came to desire more in a storyline and less deus ex machina.
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