"Why are you casting Magic Missile? There's nothing to attack here."

"I'm-I'm-I'm attacking the darkness!"

...and yes, I had that memorized off the top of my head.

anyone who wants to talk shit on D&D... i pity you for many reasons.

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Gyrojet pistols are locked and loaded!

40ozToFreedom is the reason Sebastian was needed to save us from the Nothing. "They looked like such strong hands"

My wife, who has played 3.5 with us for years, never felt comfortable with it.

In D&D, after a certain point, your character practically becomes a god. He can't be killed, and he can kill anything in a few rounds. Generally, the battles stop being fun. Our group was always more about roleplaying anyway, but when you think about it, the rules didn't make that much sense. (We started with v2 rules, then moved to 3 and 3.5.)

Warhammer Roleplay just makes more sense to me. I'm not crazy about the setting, but the rules are better. They make more sense. Someone just starting out can get a lucky shot and kill a character that has been around forever. It makes you actually think about tactics instead of just relying on your massive amount of hit points to save you.

For the record, I would just like to state that I do have a girlfriend, and that I do have sex with her often. The last two paragraphs would seem to indicate otherwise, but I swear to Pelor it's true.

D-20/D-8/D-4 on YOUR SORRY ASS!

YOU FUCKING TROLL!!!!!

;-)

but to each their own.

Stop throwing ping-pong balls at me dammit!

The Samurai thing was called the 6 Rings or something like that.

"Everybody wants to be a hero!"

more gold!

Thanks for the tip Jonah!

So, thanks for that WOTC...

Now, they laughingly try to have similar content online, but it comes out slower and more disorganized than they print issues...and soon they are going to make people pay for online content...

So, screw that. I hope the game is good, but something tells me the days of D&D are almost over...

Will Time-Warner settle with the Tolkien estate and get the damn Hobbit ball rolling?

First off, calling someone a geek or a nerd is mainly a sign that you're stuck in the '80s. That stigma is pretty much gone... in fact, geek is used as much as a self-descriptor as anything else.

I don't play D&D, haven't in a decade or two. Neither does my girlfriend. She and I would be willing, though; she's the same sort of hot geek girlfriend that many of you don't seem to believe exists (sad for you).

Also: I'm pretty sure 95% of the people who have played D&D have never, ever, dressed up as a wizard or warrior.

Also: Playing a role-playing game around the kitchen table is a far more social event than playing something like World of Warcraft would ever be. Why not characterize WOW players as antisocial rejects?

Thanks for the review, Massi. I'm sure I will never actually buy the books, unless the online stuff they come out with is really cool. But it's good to know they're taking the game in the right direction.

It's funny to read all the snide, cooler-than-thou posts here along the lines of, "you guys are all such nerds and losers for liking D&D!"

Message to everyone posting that stuff--you're posting to a comment board on Ain't It Cool News, a geek site, on which you have registered and taken a screen name.

YOU ARE A GEEK AND A NERD.

Accept it and be proud! This is a place to do so without shame. There's nothing wrong at all with enjoying this nerdy kind of stuff. I do. What's pathetic is a nerd trying to be the uptight high-school bully in a geek-approved place like this.

Save us your personal issues, go play your game or watch your movie of choice, and enjoy it!

Is it the geek backlash?

I can't help it, I still like the old-school stuff. For me, the first printing of Unearthed Arcana is too modern. The old system is clunky, but a big part of what kept me from moving on back then is the aesthetics of the books. The photo-realistic, Photoshopped, bland imagery and illustrations that pervade all modern books leave me cold. I know that has nothing to do with the game play itself, but for me it's part of the whole experience.

Give me the Dave Trampier ink illustrations from the original books anyday. That stuff was brilliant, evocative of old myths and storybooks, and so artistic.

But to all those on the new system: excelsior and play on!

The whole point of roleplaying is the social interaction. To unplug from the digital world and play games with people, have fun (and occasionally haggle over the rules), but do it in the presence of real people. As to "gamer funk" and the smell of cheetos... a bath/deoderant requirement was always in effect in any gaming group I used to be in, which were also suprisingly co-ed.

I wonder though, how many people bring laptops to gaming sessions these days?

I'll just add-NEEDS GIANT ROBOTS. Just because.

my wife will be glad to hear i only play online games...

Sorry, couldn't resist! He eats lemmings too don't he-?