As I’m sure you are all aware, this past Saturday was my 23rd birthday. And while I was flattered by the nation-wide ticker tape parades, newspaper headlines, and laser carvings on the surface of the moon, I’m afraid my birthday may have eclipsed other, less worthy news items.
So now that the Cristal stains are all steam-cleaned out of the carpet (my Mom got me a new steam cleaner!) and George Clooney’s finally woken up and staggered home, I think it’s a good time to talk about a little story that you may have missed on Saturday.
Namely, the release of Dungeons and Dragons: Fourth Edition, which caused quiet, dusty nerdgasms all across the blogosphere.
My thoughts on the matter can best be summed up by my hope that Gary Gygax’s recently inhabited coffin’s got some padding in it, so he doesn’t hurt himself when he starts violently rolling over.
I’ve long had the sneaking suspicion that the bastards at Wizards of the Coast were just waiting for the G-man to go tits up so they could gut the franchise, and Fourth Edition finally proves me right.
Now, I’m sure I’ll take a lot of flak for that sentiment, especially since every geek outlet and Wizards devotee on the net has been singing the praises of the new edition, and why? Just because a massive streamlining has changed the game’s rules from a horrendous chore that only the most dedicated nerds could navigate without spewing out Cheeto powder in frustrated impotence, to a fun role-playing game that nearly anyone can pick up in an afternoon.
To paraphrase Dr. Malcolm from that Youtube re-enactment of Jurassic Park: these saboteurs were so excited to see if they could make D&D more accessible that they didn’t stop to think if they should.
I mean, how many fun, easy-to-play RPGs are out there? Lots. That’s why video games were invented…to roll dice behind the scenes while our various anime characters shoot things with swords somehow.
But how many, dense, torturous analog RPGs–where your life and death can hinge on any number of obscure modifiers hidden in any number of monolithic tomes large enough to crush a man’s skull–are sitting on the shelves?
One. Dungeons and fucking Dragons. And now you’ve ruined it.
I ask you, where are we to go? We, the people who play because there’s nothing sweeter than flipping through a book for five minutes to prove that our Halfling’s Alertness feat counteracts the 16 move silently check from the Undead Priest.
We, the people who live for the opportunity to hunt through the Monster Manual to find out whether Delvers travel alone or in pairs, and if they’re intelligent enough to be mindlinked. You know, so you can gain its vast knowledge of dungeoneering.
We, the people who make scrupulous notes about every crossbow bolt the enemies fire, and force the DM to roll every time to see if they break (taking into account the hardness of the surface being struck).
We, the people who screech incoherently at the DM about a rigged game if a Kobold so much as thinks about firing more arrows than he had on his person when the battle began.
In other words, the totally unrelenting dicks for whom the game was designed in the first place.
That’s why I’ve written the following list of demands for D&D Fifth Edition, which Wizards will probably release later this year, after a mob of angry, fifty-year-old fat guys in cloaks charge their offices and claw them viciously with their finger-length silver rings, spilling Mountain Dew absolutely everywhere.
Don’t disappoint, Wizards. Otherwise I’ll only buy a single copy of all the Fourth Edition books, rather than my habitual three. And please, those of you readers who dabble in the D&D (and I KNOW you’re out there) feel free to add anything you’d like to see in Fifth Edition. The revolution starts now.
When not blogging for Cracked, Michael rides his birthday jet skis around his birthday lake as head writer and co-founder of Those Aren’t Muskets!
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September 11th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
TSR ftw
It was just a better game back then. I want to play an RPG not an MMO on paper.
September 5th, 2008 at 9:08 am
>But how many, dense, torturous analog RPGs–where your life and death can hinge on any >number of obscure modifiers hidden in any number of monolithic tomes large enough to >crush a man’s skull–are sitting on the shelves?
>
>One. Dungeons and fucking Dragons.
Ever heard of Rolemaster, mate?
August 21st, 2008 at 4:55 pm
They had it good in 2nd edition - lots of room for most anything the players felt would work, HUGE options for roleplaying (if you thought that 2nd was restrictive, you just don’t have a good enough imagination, inventiveness, or creativity to roleplay or complain about roleplaying consctrictions, as if you are bound to the game system for roleplaying, LOL), a strong system that wasn’t overcomplicated, and things made sense.
Then, they pumped out a “must-be-run-on-a-computer-unnecessary-bullshit” when 3rd came, and 4th just takes that cake and runs with it.
If they wanted to make a game meant for computer gaming, then they should have just come out and fucking said so, because that’s exactly what 3rd and 4th are.
Wizards of the Coast?
Moar liek Wiztards of teh Co$t, amirite?
Please, WotC, give us some of that old time awesomeness, without this excessive, bulky, and downright stupid flair tacked on.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:48 am
By making everyone super special, the gave each class a vest of flair covered in buttons, pins and knick-knacks. And look… everyone has a vest.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:42 am
5th Edition must require
1. A chapter in the DMG that is specially for XP bonuses that will be awarded to any player that can overpower a character using completely legitimate rules.
July 26th, 2008 at 2:03 am
I have run a game VERY successfully for around 15 ish years,, when 3.0 came out we grudgingly converted, but in the end were happy for it. Like every other great campaign, It has spanned several charicters from each player and run the gambit from 1st to epic levels….. There is no real possability for conversion to 4.0….at all…. I wish it just had another name.
This system is so dramaticly like an MMORPG and so dramaticly unlike a tabletop RPG I just cant like it. All my friends do. They say I’m insane. WTF! I FEAL LIKE I”M TAKING CRAZY PILLS.
Adimittedly 4.0 is easy. Far more so than 3.5 BUT at what cost. 3.5 sparked imagination and creativity in a way that 4.0 just cant. Everything is spelled out, there is no more searching the books for the perfect some-such to Beat down the beasties. The paragon paths are at best limmiting.It seems that the next generation of players is a bit Lazy, or at the very least WotC are creating a crowd of cross Genra players cofortable with Primarily hack and slash gaming. For sure the pre-made adventures will be easyer to run,,,,but who uses them,,Almost no one I know.
Please tell me how I am wrong, because I must be. There just seems to be a level of deapth and realism (granted I use that word loosly, this is fantasy after all) that is unattainable with the new system. Seriously, A rouge can hit 9 dudes with one thrown dagger at first level? It’s no longer what it was. If it had a new name, I think I would love it.
June 19th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
I’m not sure if you played the new version but, it is a lot easier making your person and will-users aren’t so squishy.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:35 am
Hey, we just rolled up our first 4th edition characters tonight, and it actually turned out really well. We didn’t have enough time to actually play any tonight (not because it takes that long to make a character, it really doesn’t, we just did other things too), but everyone’s really excited. I was afraid the rules would be dumbed down, and while they occasionally over-explain things, that’s still much preferable to under-explaining things. I’ve played D&D for 8 years now, been a DM for almost all of it, mostly only played 3rd edition, and I like it quite a lot. My friend has only been playing Star Wars Saga since it came out, a few months ago. He played a little D&D, found it to be needlessly complicated (I have to spend skill points?! What about trained skills?!), and likes this much better. My other friend has played D&D for about 12 years, didn’t even play 3rd edition until a few months ago, always complained that it was too complicated compared to 2nd, even when I threw THAC0 in his face, and he likes this much better. My brother, who’s played as long as I have, has not yet made his character, but he likes what he’s seen so far. And, it’s not near vanilla; not only does every class have its own cool powers, a huge variety, each class has 4 paragon paths (except for Warlock, which only has 3); if you take the appropriate multiclass feat, you can take that classes paragon path. That’s a pretty huge variety right there. I think I might play a Paladin, multiclass Cleric, and take Angelic Avenger Path; who knows? Plus, this is only the first 3 rulebooks; while there were more classes in 3rd, 4th just came out. I already know that they want to add the swordmage, sorcerer, monk, barbarian, and druid classes ASAP, as well as various psionic classes. Now, I’m not saying that 4th edition’s perfect; I already have a bit of a problem with the fact the Int doesn’t really seem to do much of anything (other than AC, Reflex, Wizard attacks…okay I guess it does a lot), but I still think it ought to add to the number of skills. Hell, I heard before it came out that Int mod was supposed to be added as a bonus to all trained skills. Maybe its still in there, and I just missed it. Oh well. It’s not perfect, but I don’t think they made it because they hate us, and want to steal money straight from out pockets. I think they truly, and rightly, realized that 3rd edition had some fundamental problems that needed fixing, and this was the best, and coolest, way to do it.
June 16th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Hey, I’m not fat, nor am I bearded! As a 2nd editioner, I take offence to that remark and hereby throw my +2 cane of arthritic inflammation at you. (My THAC0 is 5!)
June 16th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Cannot understand why somany men spend much time on games. It is boring to me!
Aren’t romance&love more interesting? Any nice guys there would like to chat with me(a sexy big curvy woman) and seek real fun at ___PlusMeet.c o m__? Many sexy big beauties and big manful guys mingle there. U will not be disappointed!
June 15th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
1st ed. - for the fatbeards.
2nd ed. - for the soon-to-be-fatbeards.
3-3.5 ed. - for me and my homies.
4th ed. - for those dumb enough to spend unnecessary money on a flawed gaming system designed to attract WoW players to tabletop RPG’s.
By the way, Games Workshop and WotC need to join forces and write the “Idiot’s Guide to Raping Our Fans out of Hard-Earned Money.”
Where’s my torch and pitchfork? Who wants to join the Lynch Mob against WotC?
By the way, me and my homies been playing since 1st ed. and 3-3.5 is the easiest and smoothest running system, IMO.
June 15th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Well you’re shit out of luck spambot , Swaim’s a dog raper.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
If you are a nice man, I surely would like to say “happy birthday!” to U and maybe we can arrange a dating @____PlusMeet.c o m__, where big boob women, big booty women and big manful guys meet and seek fun&romance together! Want to invite me to your birthday party?
June 12th, 2008 at 11:27 am
I’ve never played D&D, honestly, though I do like RPG video games and I mess about with Guild Wars, etc. It’s kind of amusing that while your average guy doesn’t take a whole lot of time out of his busy schedule of whatever-it-is-boys-do to think about complex games, most D&D players are boys. At the same time, your average girl loathes anything unrelated to boys, cars or clothes at this point, but now a lot of gamers are girls, too.
I swear to god I had a point when I started writing that. I think it was related somehow to irony, but I’m not really sure.
Demands for D&D 5? Every single race must speak a different language. You know, for realism. And that means the players have to speak their character’s language as well. Also, no guides for learning these languages or L’ithl’angerphanturianaut-to-Orc, etc. dictionaries need be produced– REAL fans should already know these languages.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
My friends and I have been playing the same group of characters for over fifteen years. When 3rd Edition came out, we looked at it and said “why mess with a good thing??” We have been running a successful and ridiculously fun campaign for nearly two decades and we have 2nd edition to thank for it… sure, we’ve made some modifications to a few rules here and there, but only in the interest of moving the story along… and we still spend all sorts of time reveling in looking up random stats in random charts in random books. Fourth edition has been barely a blip on our radar, but I have to admit I was pleased with the reviews… yet another example of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it…”
June 11th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
The only reason I’m getting some 3.5th edition books, is that the program Fantasy Battlegrounds (by GlitterComm) is designed with them in mind. It’s a virtual tabletop designed for roleplaying over the net. For example, if I run the application, and you connect to my IP with your client, you see the virtual tabletop. We can all see each other’s rolled dice (except the DM can roll dice off the table in secrecy), the DM can load images and maps, etc. It has your charcter sheet loaded, etc. It looks pretty sweet. A couple of my friends and I are going to try it out soon.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
You had to know this edition would come out. Every franchise does it. Companies have to squeeze every last dime out of something, essentially killing the cash cow in the process. 2nd edition rules! I still have the books somewhere in my house.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Wizards of the Coast Ruined this game!
It’s not even Dungeons AND Dragons anymore!
Fourth Edition SUCKS!
MONEY GRUBBING WHOOOOORES!
June 11th, 2008 at 11:18 am
I totally agree kingmonkey…it WAS the story that made it fun. The beauty of D&D was once upon a time it was so simple you could sit down in one evening, roll up some characters and play an adventure, getting plenty of hacking and treasure hunting done in the process. If you had good roleplayers in the group, they would make fun and interesting characters.
But when 3rd edition came out, it opened the door for ENDLESS poring over magic books and compendiums and tedious crap that took forever, and pretty much killed the simple fun. If one wants a more complex RPG system, there are much better designed ones out there. GURPS anyone? far superior imo. BUt sometimes it’s nice to go back to the old simple AD&D for some quick fun.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Wow, that was possibly the most hilarious 4e related post I’ve read thus far (and I’ve read wayyyy too many of them!). Nice job!
June 11th, 2008 at 8:04 am
I used to play with a real rules lawyer. He owned all the books and believed that every one should be followed religiously. I felt it was more about the story than the mechanics. The following became a typical interaction.
“Okay, your Acid Spray spell spatters the Ogre Mage with sizzling green goo. He roars and swings at you with his enchanted katan-”
“What? It specifically states in the following books that the Ogre Magi’s hit dice give a maximum of X hit points, and their specific weakness to acid and flame-”
“Oh yeah, you’re right. Hey, you know what? You just got hit by a meteor.”
June 11th, 2008 at 4:24 am
What sucks about the newer editions is that they abolish the need for complex house rules that are known only to the longtime players in the group. We still play 2nd edition, and nothing beats getting to tell some new player that his stats need to be adjust like so, he needs to add three more that we made up, his race now has 6 sub-races he need to pick from, and the kit he wanted for his fighter has been modified out of recognizability… Sometimes they even come back for more abuse, and then we know they’re keepers!
June 11th, 2008 at 12:40 am
“I ask you, where are we to go?”
Hackmaster. That’s what that game was made for. Parodying ALL the crazy rules-lawyering and technicalities of AD&D’s earliest editions. There you shall find all the old school Nerd rules-orgy you could possibly desire.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:37 am
@ why not I ask -are you kidding? There are really awkward nerds that even other nerds avoid. There is always a hierarchy of nerditry. Do I need to show you the chart?
June 11th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Happy birthday.
This made me laugh my ass off–just today I was at my local game and used bookstore when the owner lambasted 4th Edition (which, being a cheap bastard and liking 3rd edition and other rpg systems, I will not purchase)–I looked at one of the books…and it is so dumbed down in made my brain throb.
For 5th Edition . In order to know a language in the game, the player must be fluent in both the language and one of the cultures it is spoken in. This includes at least one ethnic dance, and being able to cook in that certain ethnic style where the meat is of questionable origin and there are no cats or dogs anywhere in sight of the restaurant, yet the prices are low enough that you keep going back.
Also, all character sheets are to be written on vellum. Now that, is old school…not as old as wax or clay tablets, but still, pretty old.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Hey Swaim I liked the article ( Adv D&D rules….uh…rule) but who is the insufferable prick?
Clooney?
June 10th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
and this is why i dont play rpg’s anymore. there like a black hole man, a black hole.
cue 1000 yard stare
June 10th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
@ Stagnant —wait, D&D players can actually be higher up on the social ladder than others?
In my experience, we are a desperate bunch who can take all the friends we can get.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
@kingmonkey
-actually I have leveled up from girl friend to fiancee and I am a level 9 Tyllwydd Bard/level 2 phoenix disciple…plus I’m hot, and I am going to be a doctor–> very intelligent hot woman with geeky flair — a nerd boys [michael's] wet dream
Happy three days after your birthday PBR!!
June 10th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
How can you say its only got “vanilla” Have you seen the number of abilities each class gets to choose from? Or how about how at will, daily, and per battle actions allow all classes to make interesting choices every turn. This is a much better system then previously caster classes were the only ones with choices to make, warriors all went the same 2-3 feats you can get, and all basically just attacked. BORING! New system lets them have tons of choices every turn, every level, every time. Previously was vanilla or chocolate for most, now everyone can pick 500 flavors of things to do.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Hey dalia, Vin Diesel is gay.
June 10th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
I must say that simplifying the game was a great way to get the “young, hip, teenage crowd” into the game. However, replacing dice rolls with coin tosses may have been going too far.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Wild_Marker, you don’t understand how D&D works. Sure, you can play a few old school games here and there just for nostalgia, but if he doesn’t buy the new books by the time his next paycheck comes along they will revoke his ‘Nerd Card’. If he is the DM (guy who tells the story and runs the show) and he didn’t actually squirrel money away to buy it opening day… Jesus, his regular players would probably pelt him with dice. And let me tell you, sir, that many a geek owns a d100 the size of a baseball for just such an occassion.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Hey, Swaim has a girlfriend. She’s a level 8 Dryad priestess!
June 10th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Wow a 23 year old sarcastic D&D fan. You must be a hit with the ladies.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Wild_Marker… you are a goddamn fool. A FOOL, I SAY!
June 10th, 2008 at 9:45 am
er… why don’t you just get the old books, if it’s such a pain
you know, it’s like playing a game without patching it, if I don’t like what’s in the patch, then i don’t get it, simple
June 10th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Wait, how is it possible to make DnD easier by not making the whole system go crashing upon your head like WTC? I mean, the Book of Vile Evil has some evil characters and their descriptions, composed out of pages of letters and numbers that make sense. How can they make that easier?
Also, those dicks at game workshop are releasing 5th edition of rules that will probably make a Space Marine weaker than a Grot.
June 10th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Well, I have to concede the 3.5 rules needed simplification … sadly, 4.0 threw the baby out with the bathwater. 3.5 allowed a huge range of choices, 4.0 offers one. Balance is good, but blandness is bad. It has good ideas, but it threw out a lot more good ideas to get there. The 3.5 icecream cart was overloaded and groaning beneath the weight. With 4.0, we have … vanilla. And that’s it.
June 10th, 2008 at 8:25 am
D&D is cool - but ShadowRun is way better when it comes to obsure table-top RPGs for the following reasons:
Polyhedral dice blow - give me a fist full of D6s any day (much better for puching whores)
Trolls are cooler when they are clubbing stuff with guns instead of clubs.
A lack of latex in D&D prevents me from role-playing my fetish for orks in rubber.
check and mate - bitches.
June 10th, 2008 at 7:35 am
“It adds realism.”
You’re the sort of guy who could make fantasy freaks burst into tears.
June 10th, 2008 at 6:58 am
If you are a big handsome man, I surely would like to say “happy birthday!” to U and maybe we can arrange a dating @PlusMeet.c o m__, where big boob women, big booty women and big manful guys meet and seek fun&romance together! Want to invite me to your birthday party?
June 10th, 2008 at 2:50 am
Weapon and equipment damage. Every time you get in a fight (or do anything, really), you should have to roll to see which pieces of equipment have broken.
And law enforcement should be added. As the game goes on, players are pursued by an increasing number of angry police officers of various races who will try to arrest them for the mass murders they’ve committed.
It adds realism.
June 10th, 2008 at 2:22 am
Dr. Rotwang… Vin Diesel plays D&D and gets laid with much more chicks that you can propably count, he is an actor and boasts a physique that you most likely only dream about. The game you play doesnt matter what you will achieve, but the person that you are and how high you have your goals and what you are willing to do to achieve them.
June 10th, 2008 at 2:10 am
And bring back the random diseases table! There are so many new cool and horrible diseases, discovered by the writers of this magazine, that must be included. What’s that? They haven’t done that yet. Well, get to work, Cracked writers!
June 9th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
You mean they took that shit and made it MORE complex? Jesus, Mary, Joseph and all those other biblical folks. What the hell man? 3rd was bad enough. My friend can go on for days about that shit and I don’t understand a word and they made it more complicated?
Yay capitalism. -_-
Well since they wanna make it more complicated to play now, I think 5th edition should require all players have girlfriends who are no less than a “5″ on a 1-10 scale, and if there is a disagreement on her looks, all who oppose will roll a 1d4 (limit first 5 players) and the boyfriend of the woman in question will roll a 1d20 to see if he can stay and play. This woman cannot be hired for ooc money, no saving throws, or re-throws.
June 9th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
All I’m sayin’ is it ain’t the complexity of the D&D rules, which frankly a fairly bright 4th grader could figure out, that’s keeping the game in the hands of insufferable pricks.
June 9th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Holding up D&D as the acme of challenging, obscure, even arcane role-playing game rules is absurd. Once they were purchased by Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast should have switched the title from “Dungeons and Dragons” to the far more appropriate “Kindergartener’s First Role-Playing Game.”
June 9th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
PS I play Real Man (i.e. ‘funny dice’) RPGS — AND get laid. So stick it, ya drupes.
June 9th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Feh. Nuts to this 4E jazz, man. Castles & Crusades is what REAL men (and women, and cats, and possibly also HDTVs) play. C&C is like The Fonz and Johnny Slash COMBINED.
Which…means that, uh…it’s…
…
…well I like it better.
June 9th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
I’m still trying to figure out 3rd edition.
June 9th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
why dont these DnD guys just move ont o WoW or something…MMOs are the future of overweight introverted nerds
June 9th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
In an effort to show the world how superiour the Cracked 5th edition is to the 4th, when the players meet, they must bring a friend who have never played any version of D&D before. All the rules must be understood by the newcomer before the adventure may begin.
If they do not concur that the 5th is better than the 4th, the paddle mentioned by Matthew Wiley shall be used as a Blunt Class Weapon to teach the newcomers.
June 9th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Other then to say happy Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary, I had no clue as to what you were talking about. Is this “D&D” the same as that World of Warcraft game?
June 9th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Shit Swaim, I hadn’t thought about Robert Asprin in years. Used to read ‘em all the time.
June 9th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
It sounds like a plot of a Big Bang Theory episode, they get the hot blonde to play the elf princess and convince her to bathe in the forest lake.
+5 Boners.
June 9th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
There is always a reason to touch female breasts (note the emphasis on FEMALE breasts, since lots of guys playing D&D sport a more than respectable pair themselves)
June 9th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
A sensationally insincere belated birthday to you.
As per Babycakes’ lyrical tale of aggression, hot women were never really intended to play D&D. So, you’re right Mr. Rogue1stclass (what nationality is that?), however, any really attractive people should be forewarned: like Jennifer Tilly playing in the World Series of Poker, there are advantages and disadvantages to those who transcend the stereotypes so lovingly embraced by the worldwide community of polyhedral dice aficionados: You, the beautiful person, while intoxicating some with your beauty-stink, are at the same time looked at suspiciously by some, warranting close scrutiny and sometimes totally unprovoked aggression (think the latter half of School Ties).
If I had to add a feature to 5th edition, it’d be a strict enforcement of parliamentary procedure and an enormous frat paddle to enforce it. Also, to further insulate beautiful women, there shall be instated a carefully devised rubric with which all female breasts are to be measured with by the DM before each game and at the approximate half-way point. There are again, no discernible justifications.
June 9th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Awesome! Now that they’ve simplified the rules, all the hot chicks are gonna play!
Oh, wait, no. It’s still D&D.
June 9th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Has anyone ever read “Little Myth Marker” by Robert Asprin? They have a card game in it with rules similar to Drake’s.
June 9th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I also demand a better system for dice rolling. Bring back Thac0, but make it a bit more convoluted to keep out all but the most dedicated of nerds. On odd days you want to roll low, on even days you want to roll high, but on leap years you reverse that. -10 becomes once again the best Armor Class, but in order to it that you have to purchase special negative dice that have a chance of sending you into the Bizarro world when you roll a d20 (or a 1, depending on the day and the year)
June 9th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Swaim, you may be younger than I am, and a better actor, and better at giving than receiving vigorous manly-like spartanesque deep tissue massages, but I promise you this: I’ve never played dungeons and dragons.
June 9th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I fucking lol’d.
After pyaying a few games, I can safely say that I love 4E…
Well, other than the silly terminoligy changes.