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cfalcon
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posted 01-12-2004 11:51 PM
I was assuming live.
Email or something like that, yea, that's less nerdy.
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Anthrax
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posted 01-12-2004 11:54 PM
online d&d is less nerdy because you don't need to manually add up all that crazy nerd shit when you roll the dice. OpenRPG does all that nerdy math shit for you. also you don't have to find 5 other mouthbreathers who live near you and you don't have to sit around a big table while one of you holds a big piece of cardboard in front of his face so nobody can see his secret gay plot.
playing d&d online is a lot less shameful. when you play your level 25 nymphomaniac drow huntress online, nobody has to see your fat pimply face.
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She told The Associated Press she first realized her son was mentally ill in 1996 when he killed her oldest child, a 25-year-old woman who suffered from cerebral palsy, by beating her with a dumbbell.
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cfalcon
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posted 01-13-2004 05:40 PM
Ok, I wasn't really expecting Anthrax to respond in human. Kind of like Christmas.
OpenRPG does all that nerdy math shit for you.
Really? I'm going to try it out a little soon. Like, it knows the 3ed rules, and all I need to put in my character sheet? It'll figure out that the Weapon Focus (Greatsword) and the Greatsword +3 and the fact that I'm 6th level fighter and have an 18 Strength gives me two attacks at +14 and +9 a piece? Or do I tell it that I have a +14 (after a ton of nerd math), and it tells the DM's computer that I rolled a 10, and hit AC 24, and then listens for the other machine to tell it whether that hits or misses?
Honestly, though, I have to look at it this way:
I know a lot of people who will game. We'll sit around, some of them will get high, food will be eaten. We're friends hanging out, like when we watch movies or sports or play video games or go out- except that we're gaming. There are a lot of people that I know that are like this. Regular people, but a couple times a year they will subject themselves to gaming. Of those people, some would be willing to play in a campaign- meet every couple weeks for more of the same. *VERY FEW* of even those will subject themselves to the same situation, minus the social interaction and plus the feel of a teleconference, and none of the people who were only willing to game occasionally would even consider the online aspect.
I see your logical arguements, but ultimately, the less nerdy people will game sometimes, the slightly more nerdy will game often, and only the most devoted geeks will actually install software and play. Perhaps the effort of playing is low key and not nerdy when *you* do it, but the setup basically wipes away the less nerdy, so it's the same thing.
I mean, XMMS is just as simple to use as WinAMP, but XMMS is the nerdy Linux application, and everyone, nerd or not, has WinAMP.
I'm going to guess that most of your local friends aren't into gaming- if they were, you wouldn't be going out of your way to find dorks and then feel embarrassed to hang out with them, you'd just sit down at a table with your friends.
playing d&d online is a lot less shameful.
Well, ok, I'll grant you that. There's nothing quite like explaining to a girl that came over with one of your buddies why you need to have the big screen but no one else can, and why everyone is asking shit like "But isn't elven chainmail just a mithril chain shirt? I mean, what's the difference, elf magic?"
But in terms of nerdiness required...
Let's take K for example.
He might, if I was in town, be in a campaign. Depends on a lot of things. He was willing to play a few times because he enjoys it. Would he be willing to log on and watch text scroll around for a few hours every couple weeks?
I'm going to suggest no. Even if he would like it, he won't be willing to try it without at least a testimonial in the strongest words.
If what you say is true, you don't need to know all the rules. But ultimately, you don't need to know all the rules in a normal game. Of my college group, we always had a couple guys who were solid enough with the rules to let some of the other players skate by with just the common stuff.
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Anthrax
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posted 01-13-2004 07:13 PM
i dunno, in like the 2 weeks i played i never had to do any dumb math shit, the gm did it all. my gm (auto) wrote up macros for me to use when i was fighting so i just had to push f1 or f2 and i'd attack with all my +1 to gay goblins added and everything.
and i was usually doing other shit at the time. im on the comptuer all day, so a two hour d&d session whenever isnt really a big deal. a lot of times we couldnt even play because there were only like 3 out of 6 or 7 people on.
plus you get to use super nintendo sprites to represent your character
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Mr. K
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posted 01-15-2004 08:21 AM
i want a blooper
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Sonuis
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posted 01-15-2004 05:14 PM
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Originally posted by Mr. K:
i want a blooper
Bloop.
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