Would you play DND with Richard?

Never learned the rules

Do you really think Richard has the mental capacity to remember all the rules of DnD?

Could be like Rain Man.

I don't even get this. My dedutive reasoning tells me that this is the amount of bullshit you can encounter while playing that game, but I don't get how some of that bullshit plays out. Like WTF are daily limits? Is it like "cast magic missile once per day"? What the hell is "respond to tone"?

i'd rather play with the voltron faggots

He’s not using his brain capacity for anything else.

If he plays fair, then yeah.

Responding to tone just means "YOU'RE BEING MEAN!"

and daily limits are that D&D casters have a per day number of spells they can cast before they need to rest. The argument being that fighters and spellcasters are balanced because fighters have no such limitation.

this is wrong and bullshit but do you really want me to get into why?

It’s an argument Bingo referring to a problem (or perceived problem if you don’t believe in it) where spellcasting classes are absurdly more powerful than non-spellcaster classes.

Daily limits refers to an argument where it is okay for martial classes to be massively overpowered by casters, because casters have a limited amount of spells they can cast in a day.

“Five minute adventuring day” below it refers to the party stopping to rest as soon as the spellcasters are running low, because they would rather have those spells than the martials’ lacking abilities.

Responding to tone means the person is not addressing the argument and is just name calling because he was called names. Or similar.

Daily limits

Sure. He seemed a pretty cool dm

I wouldnt play D&D with him since I feel like he'd be better suited to a more rules lite game.

Is that a screen from the show? Cus if yes thats an fucking obscure reference they've got there.

I still don't get the tone thing. How is calling each other names specifically relates to board games?

As for the daily limit that gets cheated, you can probably play around it by making it so there are no safe resting spaces around, or getting in and out of the dangerous adventure zone is expensive/dangerous or maybe jack up the prices of daily necessities?

The last DnD campaign I was in, I caused a TPK.

In many editions of D&D, spellcaasters can spend one spell to have all the daily necessities and a dimensional space to rest in which cannot be discovered. You'd only be screwing over only people who cannot cast spells.

As for the tone, iIt's an argument bingo. Anything that happens often enough can be in there, regardless of whether it has anything to do with the game.

I like that he's dressed as Dungeon Master from the 80's cartoon.

i have literally never met a person who plays DnD regularly and has real aspirations

Wow, whoever came up with that free day skip spell is fucking retarded. It's like they wanted to screw over everyone who doesn't play as a mage. Aside from specifically just having monsters with huge magic resistances in your campaign, I don't see a way around mages being OP. But then you're just drawing the ire of all mage players. House rules that make it mandatory to have 8 hour adventure days maybe?

Generally, DnD has a problem with creating rules, and then making spells that remove those rules or their effects in some form.

You can have an okay game if your group is not obsessed with having the STRONGEST character or everyone has a similar experience level. But it doesn't mean that those flaws don't exist.

It is a screen and he handled the rules well

jazz music stops

Alternatively create a ticking clock so they can rest a couple times during an adventure but if they take eight hour naps every fifteen steps they'll never get it done in time.

I always puzzle about richard.

He is retarded man that known how to dnd, drive, and remember the rules of the road.

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I've only played DnD once, and I was all excited for some nerdy-ass roleplaying only for my whole party to spend over a goddamn hour arguing over how elevation and partial cover affects dice rolls on ranged attacks, and the rest of the time was spent arguing how to split the sprinkle of loot we got from a few undead and a wolf.

It was like every bad stereotype about nerds arguing numbers personified.

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Regarding world effects, agree to cowtow to the DM no matter how stupid. If it's awful, just never let him DM again or school him in-between campaigns. Regarding loot, split it in-character in-game: if a barbarian wants it, let him take it or start a fight over some pelts. An adventure where you died like morons fighting over a gold coin in the first 15 minutes is a lot better than the one where you argued out of character for two hours about who needs that +1 health and mana belt the most.

Fair advice, but I didn't really care either way. I just wanted to interact with some actual story, while the other guys in the group just wanted to nitpick the mechanics of every turn and didn't bring up their actual characters at all.

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>It's like they wanted to screw over everyone who doesn't play as a mage.

This only happens if you have a shitty DM. A good one is going to be fine with it if the warrior decides he wants to cut some steaks for the road off the bear the party just killed, or if an elf wants to spend the half of the long rest after their super-nap fishing by the camp. He'll let the ranger do a few skill checks to find a secluded grove for the party to sleep in and to cover their tracks, or he'll let the bard schmooze the party into a caravan so they can let someone else worry about keeping watch.

Most importantly, a good DM is going to say shit like "The boat to the expedition is leaving in 3 days, and you're 3 and a half days away," so the wizard knows he's getting his teeth kicked in if he tries to get the group to call it a day every time a butterfly pops out of a bush and he throws all of his fireballs.

a good DM is someone who is willing to sacrifice his own fun in order to bring it to others. basically nothing like Richard.

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That was the entire point of the episode where the pic is from.

Is call the cops on him for multiple reasons.

God I miss C1 so much

Didn't he yell in terror for years on end after some trauma? Like, even during his wedding?

I prefer elder scrolls

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Make Richard Play Warhammer 40k

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>Sucking off your DM every session
Based user

I could see Richard as a salamander

>dad thought i was into DnD for some reason
>jokes about it and was up to give me the "is ok to be gay" talk
>"that shit is gay man" i tell to him
>dad suddenly respects me since
i still dont know what was that about.

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You and your dad both sound pretty gay

>Have Tabletop Shop in town with a giant window facing main street in which you can see them playing their games
>Sister sees it one day
>"user, I love you, but if I ever see you in a place like that..."
I've never played
Though I do kind of want to play if only because I have a character idea that'd be pretty cool

user, online options are available. They're a bit of a grab-bag but so would just playing with randos in a store.

For entry level stuff just use Roll20. It's simple and easy. But remember, tabletop people can be a bit weird. You can find good games, but don't stay in one you don't like.

>they dont have friends to play DnD with
I mean honestly its probably a good thing knowing most of you. You'd be "That guy" for sure.

There's a hobby store in my town that's now run by a gay dude, keeps making "play like a girl" RPG events and advertises "LBGT friendly" and uses words like "safe space". Maybe he saw a store like that.
I don't even know how these people would ever get into RPG... well besides Vampire I suppose

Sometimes you're just stuck somewhere with no local interest user. It happens.

I mean, whatever's the excuse is for not having friends, dude. You don't need to lie to me.

D&D is like that game where kids say "NUH UH" but you roll dice to make the decisions for you

>4e was balanced
>4e
4e? We never had a 4e, it jumped straight from 3.5 to 5, I don't know what you're talking about.

Mother fucker I've been in the same Mutants and Masterminds game for six months now get fucked

>a good DM is someone who is willing to sacrifice his own fun in order to bring it to others.
Players having this mentality is literally why nobody wants to DM.

Hey dont get offended at me, friendless anons. I'm not the one who caused you to have a stunded personality and whatever other flaws keep you from having a tabletop session with friends in person.

>a good DM is someone who is willing to sacrifice his own fun in order to bring it to others.

No, a good DM is one that is able to balance having a coherent story and giving their players liberty to do whatever. AKA A good DM is good at improvising while planning ahead, and avoids railroading like it was the plague.

"B-But the DM shouldn't have fun cuz-!" Is the reason why That guy's exists and people don't wanna DM, DMing is supposed to be fun, not a chore, if it's gonna be a chore you may as well get payed for it.

Yes, the only thing worse than letting you faggots into the hobby is letting you faggots into the hobby with bad taste.

Has he tried not playing DND?

no but id fuck nicole in front of him

>Suck off your DM every second
>He still kills your character without hesitation.

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>Sister sees it one day
>"user, I love you, but if I ever see you in a place like that..."
Are you having sexual intercourse with your sister?

that took a left fuckin turn

What a grand and intoxicating post.

Good DM.

Damn. It surprises me people still have this attitude. I actually managed to successfully run a game of Call of Cthulhu with my sister (who's much more outgoing than I am) and now she wants to run one. She also wants to give D&D a try since CoC went so well.

My old high school / college group was made up of a football player, a cheerleader, and a JROTC guy. The latter two were super into and good at the roleplay parts in particular.

Even my co-workers have asked me to run a game for them because it's something they've heard of and been interested in, but never knew someone who could show them.

Basically, I haven't run into someone who's like "Ewww, isn't that a game for nerds?"

this is what session zeroes are for

Oh yeah, I’m sure he’d hate me though I have a habit of figuring out DM tricks. Like when I was a druid and purified the water banhishing the water elemental in the process. Apparently it’s a rule in second edition. In a COC game I’ve killed a boss with a car instead of the magic items we were suppose to lose. Yeah my charecter died in the process but it helped the party.

Dungeons and Dragons is becoming incredibly mainstream.

>Like when I was a druid and purified the water banhishing the water elemental in the process. Apparently it’s a rule in second edition.
That's one of the main advantages on second edition over third. Magic had a lot more flavor, instead of being one-off spells with a single damage effect on combat. Druids in general were pretty complex, too.

what if Richard gave Gumball a female character to roleplay as wouldn't that be funny haha

learn to read, retards, I said "willing" not "should". a DM that is _unable_ to do it (because he prio his own fun, or rules, or whatever - doesn't matter why) is a shitty DM.

If the people you play with aren't autists, it doesn't matter if you have a firm grasp on the rules or not.

if you're playing with a group that's like this, find a new group. Like if your whole group can't just have fun and has to make shit complicated like this, you're not playing a game anymore