Teach me the ways of that which is D&D

[Aerith_Strife]

plz? i beg of you o great rpers! my b/f introduced me to D&D and I'd really like to start playing it. i'd ask him, but i wanna scare him with all the knowledge i get of D&D cuz i really have never played it b4 and i would like to so plz help meh here and teach the ways. (and i wanna be a necromancer ^.^) pm me to plz (for more info)!

[Aerith_Strife]

refrasement: how do the dice work and i know i can't play on my own, but i can't play with my friends cuz my mum doesn't let meh leave the house, so where can i play online? and i dun have the hand book, so can i just start playing in a simple game and learn from there?


/me dashes off yelling "Powerword: 'OKE-DAY!' "

[Evangelion Kun]

Okay, the first rule of AD&D is: The rules only make sense to an AD&D player. For instance, you always have a 1 in 20 chance of something going horriably, horriably wrong. (Even skilled fighters, training day after day, trip over their own two feet 1 in 20 times.) Second of all, everyhing has it's own unique dice rolls and stuff--this is to give people headaches. Actually, most of it is done with a D20. The "GM" assigns a target number, and you add some modifier depending on skill/hit whatever, and ideally what you do is supposed to work. As for playing online, your guess is as good as mine--I'm sure there's a few that play legit. Unfortunatly, playing without the handbook is well.. impossible. It follows it's own rules of physics, and even WITH the rulebook (depending with the GM) it doesn't help much. As for being a Necromancer, my guess is--uhmm, raise dead things. Lots of them. Whatever helps you raise dead things, you should do that. Oh yeah, and watch out for Holy priest things. They make your dead things die, again. Yeah.

[Aerith_Strife]

lol i know aboot the part where ya trip... its when you roll D1, right?

thank you very much!

/me bows in Evangelion Kun's presence

^.^

[Dragon Song]

This is Dragon's Requiem. I have been playing this game for many years. If you are willing, we could play a simulation of the game. This way you would have already had real experience instead of just a few suggestions.

[Zanatose]

does anyone know any sites where i can get the D & D 3rd Edition Player Handbook for free cuz im too poor to buy one???

[Mordrid]

try downloading from Kazaa or another p2p site.

[inochi]

Hi. I'm new here as will. Can some one help me make a character? And if I need any thing could some one tell me where to get from the internet? I thank you for any help some one can give.

[Kurai Chan]

mmmkay, what are the diffrences between AD & D and D&D third eddition and second eddition and third eddition?

[Mordrid]

First and second edition were called AD&D. Third Edition dropped the advanced and went back to being called just D&D.

[Dark_Lady]

The rules differ. And AD&D (the 1st edition) assumed you already knew how to play D&D. But there was no handbook for D&D and I'm not exactly sure how there came to be unifying rules. With 3rd Edition the rules were revamped for easier understanding. New spells were added too and some of the classes spilt to form new ones...
It's not the hard to teach yourself to play, at least I did. You can find players too by the source of a bulletin bored, forcing your friends into it, or looking for the geekiest person in your school. Trust me, there is a good chance that they play. Be warned though, they most likely will just want to kill you.

[Mordrid]

There was rule books for the original D&D, which came out in the mid 70s. I know this due to the fact I am a collector of oop rpg books and I have the entire set

[Zieth]

http://www.tbc.school.nz/students/dice/dice.html
This rdg can be used for online and r/l games
For the honest players