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A Dicebag of Dungeons and Dragons Documentaries
Jason Scott writes "While we're celebrating 30 years of Dungeons and Dragons, Slashdot readers might as well sit back with their DVD players and enjoy a few documentaries that have recently popped up; all of them done by independent filmmakers, too!
Uber Goober: The Movie calls itself 'A Film About Gamers' is a not-taking-itself-too-seriously overview of the life of RPGs and LARPs. Life With the Dice Bag, a 'Documentary about Role Playing Games and the people who play them' looks to take itself a bit more seriously as it covers the last GenCon held in Milwaukee. And finally, who can resist the pull of The Dungeons and Dragons Experience?"
1d1 post!
If there are any girls there...I WANT TO DO THEM!!!
If you don't know how to roll a d3, you don't get to watch a documentary. Sorry, house rules.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
Get your Unix fortune now!
FYI this is a reference to a well-known account of a paladin and his dangerous run-in with a gazebo.
Short, but funny read.
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
A friend of mine knows the guy making this, and I got to see a not-quite-done-with-editing version of it a while ago.
p le train wreck kind of sense.
It's an entertaining watch if you're a gamer, if at times in a oh-my-god-is-THAT-what-we-seem-like-to-normal-peo
...gives me a +3 Informative moderation bonus on Slashdot.
I hope I make this lame joke before all the other Slashdotters beat me in initiative and post it first!
PvPonline on LARPing
If you build it, nerds will come. Soylentnews.org
larping hitting the under-mainstream
Ignorance kills, complacency kills, hatred kills, but usually not the ones guilty of them.
[Rolls D20...]
- make-it-look-like-I'm-doing-something" saving throw!
Why, yes it is!
It even passed the Slashdot editor "have-to-tag-something-on-the-end-of-the-story-to
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
...Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt!
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
(A promo video by the now makers of the now defunct LARP SwordTag.
As for gaming movies, I can reccomend:
Death Race 2000
America 3000
Hawk the Slayer
Lord of the Rings (Bakshi)
Beastmaster
Ator: The Fighting Eagle
Conan & Red Sonja Flicks (starring our fave Governator)
Krull
Ice Pirates
Cloak & Dagger
Masterminds
Escape from New York
That's a good start. :-) Don't forget the popcorn!
"Enjoy what you're doing! If it becomes drudgery, you're doing it wrong!" - Jim Butterfield
Women?
If your theory is different from practice, then your theory is wrong.
A D&D related baitbaitbaitbaitpunchline story: we were playing with a MERP inspired critical damage setup and I attacked something (damned if I can remember what) and the exchange went like this:
me: I swing my sword! (roll a natural 20)
DM: You swing with all your might...
me: (another 20)
DM: ...and align the blade perfectly...
me: (another 20)
DM: ...through a crease in the armor...
me: (another 20)
DM: ...and between two vertebrae...
me: (a one- critical fumble)
DM: And slice your own head off.
We revised our critical damage rules for the next game.
I want a new world. I think this one is broken.
I once figured out, with Runequest's fumbles system (1% chance you've cocked it up), that if you had an army, 10 thousand strong, lined up on a hill. By the time they had charged down the hill to engage the enemy, 40 of them would have accidentally killed themselves :)
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Not as good as the Call of Cthulhu adventure into the desert, where we realised that we needed a couple of camels to carry all the water the party would need. and another couple of camels to carry the water needed for the camels, and another couple of camels to carry the water for the camels carrying the water for the camels carrying the water for the party.. and