Spoony was the one who got me interested in D&D with his review of the Essentials line. I have been attending every encounters night at my RPG store Dueling Grounds since Keep on the Borderlands A Season of Serpents week 13. Now I am reading up the Dungeons Master’s book to maybe start DMing soon

A New Spoony vid!?

Be…Sure…To…Drink…Your…Ovaltine…?

Spoony, you got me hooked on Reb Brown. I got a fever, and the only cure is more Reb.

Alright, Spoony, you’re still alive. And as time goes on you’ll get over what’s-her-name? But I saw you are still
wounded. I could see the pangs looking at the video. Did his hat, or perhaps the dragon delve a little too deep?
You should have asked him to remove his hat, and taken down the dragon and not even touched the box. You should remove that color from your life, and say the only color you see is “black!” – Hell, paint everything black!

Stay strong brother, and best of luck to you on all your future endeavors! We (the anyonmous users, internet white-knights, tolls, the unemployed, the ones who still live at home, and your more moderate fans) are here for you.
Although, I am not sure what consolation that brings, when you think of it.

Namaste.
P.S. – AD&D 2nd Edition4LIFE

Fuck yeah, Chris Perkins!

Dungeons and Dragons is an amazing game. I play 3.5 because it’s the most customizable, though it gets very convoluted very easily.

To be brutally honest, Virtual Table is far too long overdue. 4e came out just as I was finishing college, saying goodbye to a group I’d been running for a year and a half. I was elated at the prospect of having the virtual table, and I rushed out to buy the 4e books when they came out… only to discover that the -promised- content was being delayed. And delayed further. And delayed even further. It was only last year that I found a gaming club the next city over, which was the first time I ever got to use the 4e books. We need better networking for gamers, and from experience with gaming clubs, even Encounters won’t be enough for the serious D&D players. I’ve spent the last four months recruiting new players for my game at this club, having to bring in new people almost every session. That’s no way to run a -proper- D&D game. Maybe once Virtual Table is out, I can re-capture a reliable group experience. I love WOTC and all, but after four years, they’re going to have to work to regain my faith in them. We’ll see how VT works when it comes out… who knows, it might even be here before next year.

Aww man I pictured something totally more awesome when you said the words virtual table. Like…special LCD table and you would roll these special mini LCD sided dice and everyone could see the result via their tables, and had a built in webcam and mic…damn you D&D always stimulating my imagination

Because this is what D&D really needs right now… more accessibility and card shit!

heh, cards, really? This sounds like a rip off, of the already preasent in pathfinder here: http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/p/paizoPublishingLLC/gameMastery/itemPacks

And the VT I’ve been waiting for ages. I was hoping that it would broaden my horizon of gaming as I have limited access and England really isn’t that good of a gaming area in my opinion.

Basically it seems that:
1. VT hasn’t come out so they’re scraping the barrel and stealing other ideas
2. the picture spoony showed of VT looks no more advanced than maptools which is FREE. I remember the 3D look when it was announced by at the moment and that appears to be the only thing going for it. Besides that, it’s all very unimpressive, though the live-sized playing looked funny.

I love how u try to sell the game. xD

I love how u try to sell the game. xD

It’s not that I don’t like D&D anymore… …It’s just that I like Pathfinder Fantasy Roleplaying a lot more. And I think Wizards of the Coast is just going all out, shilling out so many “cool” accessories for the game, that are really just superfluous.

Any idea where we may be able to pick up those ridiculously large d20s? Wizards should market those as well.

Any idea where we may be able to pick up those ridiculously large d20s? Wizards should market those as well.

Any idea where we may be able to pick up those ridiculously large d20s? Wizards should market those as well.

Ooh. Nice.

I remember back when me and my friends thought Neverwinter Nights would be the solution to our organizational problems. How we’d theoretically just take the experience online and…yeah.

Didn’t quite pan out that way.

Live dungeon looks fun though.

Was that Colette Bennett with the D&D group?

I’ve played in the encounters program. It wasn’t my scene. It felt a bit like prostitution going to a store and buying a DM for 2 hours, and then I ended up with a pretty bad group. The pregenerated character with little options so I can’t flex my munchkin bones, and as 2d as the card their printed on so I’ve got no room for deep RP. I’ll admit it may work for some people but I rather prefer the meatup.com way about it. whatever.

Key is to get people into RP. If the encounters program does it mores the better. If the pseudoLARP works that’s cool too. If someone picks up a copy of kill puppies for Satan and can’t stop laughing at it I heartily approve. The key is that people enjoy the hobby and propagate it. Otherwise I end up with 2 people turning up for a half assed game that no one enjoys.

And then they put the Tiefling in the Players Handbook. I had a hard enough time back when I lived at home trying to convince my parents that DnD wasn’t going to turn me to Satanism. If they’d seen the option to play a Demon-Blooded character in the player’s handbook, they would have burned my books rather than simply requiring me to keep them locked in my car.

Way to pimp for D&D dude. I know you love the game and hate to harsh your mellow… but God dam I really hate 4th edition. It’s an all right game, and my complaint isn’t so much that it’s turned into a WOW boardgame (although I thinks that’s true) But it’s all so munchkin. I run a gaming club in which one of our members is currently running his 4th ed Keep on the Shadowfell. It’s fun, but it seems like the game is geared toward loot hounds and stat whores. Part of it is that the DM is an IT numbers guy, but I think that the game encourages that type of thinking. And yeah the old argument is it all depends on the type of DM & players, but like I said the mechanics encourage a certain mindset. That and the company doesn’t help either. I mean come on, I can almost hear the suits in the Hasbro boardroom cranking out these money sucking accessories in their pitch meetings: Oooh you know what would sell well? Another book of powers and card sets to go with it. Yeah the kids will shell out more dough for more “options”. Why not, it worked for Magic the Gathering! What are they on now? Players Handbook 27?

7:54 Harry Potter!