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So little interest, and every attempt to play a better game falls apart. D&D is hardly my favorite RPG — it’s barely even top ten. I just stick around ‘cause I love the community and roleplay.
In my experience, most players haven’t even considered playing others RPGs. They generally go with what their DM wants, and their DM usually only cares about D&D.
For a while, I just wasn’t confident. I worried that no one would care about or even notice anything I said. I initially only posted in articles, and I still don’t venture out of the Kitchen often — I only do so when I’m bored and want to help someone else out. Or, y’know, when I wanna yell at someone because their orcs are different from mine.
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As a DM and a player, D&D is the first game I ever tried and I still like it the best. Plus it’s what all my friends play.
I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft and Forgotten Realms. My pronouns are she/they.
I like reading and writing too, but I’m not much of an artist.
It depends on where the party is. It starts out in a sort of post-apocolypse discover the world, then turns to more natural save the towns from the wild natives, to stop the invasion of those who think they really own the neighborhood, to apocolypse from happening again...
Some of my groups are running concurrently through the same areas and they suffer or discover what the other groups did or did not do.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
D&D was the game I started with, and it is also the one that my group knows the best, so I find it easiest to run short games and one-shots with this system. I still love to play games in other systems though, and my group does occasionally go for it!
As a player, I love D&D because of the variety of options and the flexibility of the core rules that allow me to design custom character options. Still, I love to get out of D&D and play new games.
Not lurking, but I was gone for a while because of work and a really complicated life situation that left me with no free time and I cut almost all technology and screens out of my life. I’m back though!
You guys, DUH.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
D&D is what I started with, what I know, and what my friends continue to play. The notion of having to learn another system and find more people to play with just doesn't appeal to me.
As for lurking, sometimes I start typing a reply and don't feel satisfied with what I'm saying, or feel like it's taking too much work to express what I want, so I don't bother. When I see something and immediately feel like I have a response, I'll reply.
DM - Well, the only place where I can currently DM games is here on DBB, so I can't really play others since they often have much smaller online platforms
Player - The only games I can ever find to play are DND, though if someone knows of a game I can join that uses a different system, tell me about it. I would love to try new things. Im in the process of convincing one of DMs to start a Cypher game. Fingers crossed.
Lurker - I don't lurk anymore, but I used to. I think it was like page 50 of the first thread when I posted my V1 of what I thought everyone was as a Character. since then, I haven't turned back. If you think that no one will care, you are utterly wrong. The great thing about the Anything But community is that we love to hear toher ideas. Even though we throw a lot of things out there that may make you think "wow. these guys are so awesome." (which is how I felt as a lurker) in reality, most of us (at least me) are just a bunch of nerds who roll weird math rocks. we don't judge.
Hey, It's me, RaccoonMaster! I'm back! I disappeared for a while there, but now everything's good and I'm trying to get into more games!
I'm an actor, writer, singer (opera, musical theatre, and rock are my preferred genres), backpacker, and tall person (6'5 and counting). Pronouns are whatever, I mostly use They/Them though.
My Characters: Elsenia Selevarum: The Popular Paladin, Aasimar Noble, Level 5 Paladin of Redemption;
Hope to see you around!
As a DM: Nothing. My at home game has currently switched to Cyberpunk for the time being. We still play D&D too, for like, one-shots and stuff, but we’re not married to D&D. In fact it’s not even everyone’s favorite game. But D&D was my first TTRPG, so it’ll always have a special place in my heart.
As a Player: ibid.
As a lurker: I typically lurk on a QotD either because I‘m too busy to answer, I don’t have a strong enough opinion on the subject to interject and would rather let those with stronger opinions have the spotlight, or because I asked the question and don’t want my opinion to influence others’ responses.
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Most of my players don't care to learn another system. I have been interested in other role playing games, but I don't have the time or money right now to learn a whole new system.
I need a DM to play and all my DMs stick to Dnd. I am in a Pathfinder 1e game though, so I will play other systems if I get the chance. I ain't married to Dnd.
I don't really lurk anymore. However I used to lurk on the forums more than the average bogeyman. I read through all the threads for about a year before I ever posted. I was content to be an onlooker for a long time.
QotD from recent D&D Beyond Articles:
Have you ever run (as a DM) or played in (as a player) a Murder Mystery for a D&D Session? If so, what was it, how did it go, etc?
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1654-how-to-run-murder-mysteries-in-d-d
I know Strixhaven is very much like a D&D Harry Potter type setting - have you ever run any sports games (as a DM) or been in any (as a player) in D&D? If so, how was it, how'd it go, etc?
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1657-the-fantasy-league-a-guide-to-running-sports-in-d
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I Never have run a murder mystery or played in one, sadly.
Once, I particapte in a fantasy hockey game with penguin people. I don't remember much, except that the party destroyed them. not literally, of course, we were just better than them at hockey.
Hey, It's me, RaccoonMaster! I'm back! I disappeared for a while there, but now everything's good and I'm trying to get into more games!
I'm an actor, writer, singer (opera, musical theatre, and rock are my preferred genres), backpacker, and tall person (6'5 and counting). Pronouns are whatever, I mostly use They/Them though.
My Characters: Elsenia Selevarum: The Popular Paladin, Aasimar Noble, Level 5 Paladin of Redemption;
Hope to see you around!
I tried to run one once. I made it way too complicated and none of my players wanted to play anyways.
I played in one once. It was the opening adventure for Icewind Dale: RotF. It was fairly straightforward. He just followed the trail of clues in a pretty straight path until we found the murder.
I ain't ever done none of that. I do have Strixhaven though and I've read a lot of what is in there. The mechanics for the different events were practically all the same and they didn't interest me much.
There was a short quasi-mystery in one campaign, this sort of spiritual trial on a ship as we traversed to a mysterious island. I honestly don't remember much about it other than it being confusing and unclear what we were supposed to do to resolve the situation. I was pretty checked out to be honest.
I'm afraid to do either. Both require a certain amount of buy-in from the players and I'm not sure if my groups would go for it.
For sports I would also look at games like Bloodbowl for inspiration.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
1. No and no. The murder mystery looks cool though, and I might try running one at some point in the future for my players.
2. Dm'ing, no. Players, sorta? The first time I played was a session run by some relatives, and it was set at a festival. So if you count some activities there like tug-of-war or something as sports, then yes.
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I have never run a murder mystery, but I have played in one. And I also played in the Mage Tower game in Strixhaven. Both were pretty fun. In the murder mystery, we were trying to solve the murder of a wealthy shipping tycoon who had hired our party to clear out some abandoned ruins that belonged to her family so she could build a new trading post there. The Mage Tower game was pretty much by the book, but I really enjoyed it.
I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft and Forgotten Realms. My pronouns are she/they.
I like reading and writing too, but I’m not much of an artist.
Sort of -- there was a murder mystery storyline going on for a while in the Twinkling Stars Tavern. I've never encountered a murder mystery in a traditional campaign setting, though.
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QotD for DMs and writers: Name a few of your campaign and world inspirations!
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Hmmm… for my currently unnamed world I’m still working on, tons of European myths and stuff from that general area, like from Mesopotamia.
For most campaigns I run, every fairy tale under the sun from Hansel and Gretel to Reynard the Fox.
Only inspiration I've taken from other sources so far is using the Universe Smorgasboard thread as a pantheon for my world (albeit some tweaks and also added some of my own gods to fill domains there aren't really gods for, but more or less the same). It's a nice source to use (can even throw in some myths about events that happened in it), and it's much easier for me to remember the name of a god I've rp'ed with or made myself then some random list in an appendix in the Players Handbook.
Hello! I am a perfectly sane gibberer. Hi! :D
Locations are dead, the Temple of Potassium has fallen but its ideals live on
A mysterious link of chain... (Extended signature). PRAISE JEFF THE EVIL ROOMBA! REALLY cool video.
One of the Warlock Patrons on the forums. Low, low price of your soul, firstborn child and liver!
Titles: The Echoing Story Spewer (Drummer), the Endless Maws (Isis), the Mad Murderer (PJ), more on my extended sig