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D&D today was pretty funny. i accidentally threw our mage into a river. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> it started when we stopped our raft for a while at the river's coast, when we saw a wrecked rowboat. inside the rowboat was a pair of magical boots. our mage wanted them for herself, and our other characters, being all goody-goody, allowed her to have them. me, not so much. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" /> being an unaligned barbarian, i wanted those shoes for myself. that very quickly became a tug of war for posession of the boots, where the mage threw a somewhat average number for strength, and i threw the maximum possible, flinging her straight into the river, boots and all. xD actually, my character is so strong that i could have picked our raft up with everyone on top of it and just carried us through the rapids up ahead.

those rapids were pretty funny too. for some bizarre reason, my barbarian was the only one who didn't fall of the raft, and was lying on his front, head forward, laughing stupidly at the carnage around him. the other guys fell of because first the two on the left fell off, and then the two on the right, because the raft went off balance, while i happily stood there in the middle with my sword-turned-into-a-paddle.

incidentally, we forgot to change my paddle back into a sword at the fight happening later, so i somehow hacked an orc in half with a paddle. i've also discovered that jumping is just as fast as running in my case. i jumped straight over a 16-foot wide river without a running start, flying straight over our dwarf standing on the other side.
 
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<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/24.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rofl" border="0" alt="24.gif" /> Reminds me of a bug in Just Cause where, if you shoot pieces of the cement barriers left behind after town sieges with your rocket launcher while you're standing on them, you get launched so high, you loose sight of everything on land. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> You can traverse whole islands doing that, and I once landed on top of a plane. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/urgh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":urgh" border="0" alt="urgh.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
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okay, that's something i can't do. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> i did run straight up a cliff though. i also ran straight OFF a cliff, going so fast that i flew straight over two fighters and an orc. charge + cliff = fun. our dwarf tried more or less the same thing, but he made a rather unspectacular bellyflop.
 
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<!--quoteo(post=325903:date=Jun 6 2009, 07:18 PM:name=Morgan Terror)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Morgan Terror @ Jun 6 2009, 07:18 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=325903"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->13498

D&D today was pretty funny. i accidentally threw our mage into a river. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> it started when we stopped our raft for a while at the river's coast, when we saw a wrecked rowboat. inside the rowboat was a pair of magical boots. our mage wanted them for herself, and our other characters, being all goody-goody, allowed her to have them. me, not so much. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheeky" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" /> being an unaligned barbarian, i wanted those shoes for myself. that very quickly became a tug of war for posession of the boots, where the mage threw a somewhat average number for strength, and i threw the maximum possible, flinging her straight into the river, boots and all. xD actually, my character is so strong that i could have picked our raft up with everyone on top of it and just carried us through the rapids up ahead.

those rapids were pretty funny too. for some bizarre reason, my barbarian was the only one who didn't fall of the raft, and was lying on his front, head forward, laughing stupidly at the carnage around him. the other guys fell of because first the two on the left fell off, and then the two on the right, because the raft went off balance, while i happily stood there in the middle with my sword-turned-into-a-paddle.

incidentally, we forgot to change my paddle back into a sword at the fight happening later, so i somehow hacked an orc in half with a paddle. i've also discovered that jumping is just as fast as running in my case. i jumped straight over a 16-foot wide river without a running start, flying straight over our dwarf standing on the other side.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/24.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rofl" border="0" alt="24.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/24.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rofl" border="0" alt="24.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/24.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rofl" border="0" alt="24.gif" /> Cutting a orc in half with a paddle? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/24.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rofl" border="0" alt="24.gif" />

What is THAT game and where can I get it?
 
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it's dungeons and dragons, the grandfather of all RPG's. i can hardly imagine you haven't heard of it. also, it's a board game. you know, oddly shaped dice, insanely thick rulebook, figurines, the lot. fortunately, i don't really have to learn that much of the rules. just the hit-something-with-something-else kind.

what's so funny about D&D is that almost anything's allowed, as long as you can justify the way you do it. one of our fighters tried jumping off a cliff to grab a harpy and bring it down, so we could slaughter the bugger. unfortunately, he missed. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
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Sounds funny. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

Hey.. where can I get that game and which game? there's some old D&D Eye of The Beholder and somekind of new 3D D&D Online. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0" alt="blink.gif" />
 
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what i think you found was a single campaign for D&D. there are a lot of campaigns made by people for the game leaders to use. these include maps and such. you might be able to get a set from a more hidden-away game store, although the best thing might be to download a rulebook and print a simple campaign. the figurines and dice can be ordered online, i think. i've heard version 3.5 is the most fun.

better yet, Justin recently found a steampunk version called Steam and Steel. i'll be designing characters and armament. we're going to use loads of outrageous scenes, such as battling (in?) a giant clank and an airship battle.
 
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WHAT!?! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blink:" border="0" alt="blink.gif" /> It isn't a computer game you are talking about? what the heck? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/piratesing.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shock" border="0" alt="piratesing.gif" />
 
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what part of 'board game, figurines and dice' didn't you understand? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":blah:" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />
 
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<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mybad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":facepalm" border="0" alt="mybad.gif" />
 
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