I played 3rd and 3.5. My gaming group only plays Pathfinder now, but we still sometimes have trouble thinking... not in 3.5 terms. "Well I know it was like that in 3.5, but I'd have to check the Pathfinder rules to make sure it's the same."

A lot of the stuff is very similar though.

I pick up some of the Pathfinder stuff for additional materials or modules to add to my game. I generally just convert stuff to DnD 3.5 rules. I have nothing in particular against 4e, and it works find when we're playing the kick-in-door variety of game, which is what my friends and family normally tend to do, but I do like 3.5 characters better. Or course, part of it might still be me being bitter because the 4e bard is in the second players handbook which I don't want to bother getting.

I'm currently playing throgh a modified version of Entombed with the Pharoahs which I think is a Pathfinder mod though I need to check. I play a bard currently, which I had to revamp and submit three times before he made it into a game. Was worth it though. I like him. :)

One of these days my brother and were comtemplating running the updated Tomb of Horrors but we aren't sure who should run it. I've never encountered it before, and he has read the book and the adventure so he knows most of the rooms, however I would be tweeking and adding my own touches to it.

I really miss not having Dungeon of Dragon magazines anymore. I know the material is on DnD insider but I still prefer he paper mags for ease of reference. I often have several books and pages scattered around when I'm making a dungeon (we tend to refer to all adventures as dungeons around here;)).

I'm late with the next one which we planned for February, but we've all been so busy that is hasn't happened yet, adn I've changed ideas some five times.

Speaking of which, would people around here be interested in a play-by-post game if it's allowable on this forum? An electronic dice roller is all that's needed and there are sites that do those online. I have my previous dungeon that I made sitting around since I wasnt planning on doing much else with it. Though that first hallways will need to be editted, seeing as I've mentioned he spent traps. ;)

Why are you converting backwards? Pathfinder works very well with 3.5, but in general, the characters and monsters are a bit more powerful.

As for play-by-post, that would be cool. I've been wanting to rp recently.

I'd definitely join a PbP if someone runs one. Outside of Quiet's game over at Wizards of the Coast, I haven't had a chance to play DnD in years.

Converting backwards? Not sure what you mean there unless you're talking Pathfinder to DnD. I generally don't do anything with Pathfinder, I just userp the stuff on occasion, but I do buy older materials that I'm interested in, like old 2e Ravenloft critter books or third party stuff that may or may not be D20. I guess I should clarify myself and say that I convert to the S20 system, if needed, and otherwise adjust the flavour to suit my DnD games (I don't play Living Greyhawk or anything so location doens't usually matter unless it's specifically setting based).

The adventure I have in mind certainly shouldn't be as slow as Tyger, Tyger, in part because it doesn't have the large amount of backstory and character influences that Tyger does. It's mostly straight forward with rp based on current character interactions. At least, thats what I'm assuming.

Well, given that Tyger requires an investment of roughly ten minutes a month, I think I can handle another RP. :p

I know at least one person who is busy and assume another one is too since they are playing with me in another game and haven't posted in a while, but it would be nice if people would actually let me know such things. I may have to throw some wandering monsters in just to be annoying. There are monsters on the ship now, after all.;)

The day Sterion fears that gnome's menagerie is the day he gives up his sacred duty. Bring it on. :p

Question here, what's the sort of table-top people here like to play? Curious because, while I enjoy role play I often find there's very little of it when we play at the table beyond the odd jokey interaction between players. That's probably from the people I play with. It's all about discovering what's in the next room, what might try to kill you, and what you have to figure out to avoid being dead and to get the treasure.

When I played DnD, we never really got in-character. The atmosphere was never serious or focused enough for that, not to mention, most of the group was more interested in the game aspect than the story aspect. Half the time when we played, we didn't even bother naming our characters. Whenever I tried to run a serious campaign, it never lasted. It would always devolve into idiotic antics that brought the game to a screeching halt.

Then again, I'm not sure I'd be all that good at RPing at a table. I like the online format better, as I can put more thought into my character's actions and dialogue.

I actually didn't know what a table top RPG was until now. xD;

I mean, I've heard of the games [I actually wanna start playing DnD] I just didn't know what they were called. Man, I feel late. Lmao.

I usually atribute devolution at the table to the bottles of booze that float around every game.

I game group I played with in Fort St. John when I lived there weren't big in character development but we always tried to play in character, hence if a character had crappy wisdom, which one did, of course he went after most of the shiny things, not noticing the telltale bits of trap here and there. And my dumb blonde of a barbarian (elf barbarian ;)) wasn't terribly cautious when it came to opening doors. Good thing she had a good fort save.

For some reason, all the characters I rolled at that place where a little lacking in the intelligence department. We played the World of Warcraft RPG and I had a Taruen Shaman that was also not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Fun though :). Her best attack was her headbutt so I spent most of the game lighting things on fire and running into stuff. It made for some comical moments when I missed.

Theres a WoW table top? xD; I used to play the MMO, and I wasn't very good. Never got completely skilled with it, either, because my friend at the time was letting me use his account, and he went and deleted my character. I was not happy at all. ><;

We recently got into Pathfinder here. We've been mainly playing 2e and Star Wars Sagas, which are great and all, but we wanted 3.5 fix. We've got most of our characters built (I'm a Half-Elf Sorcerer with Earth Elemental Bloodline :3). So now we're just waiting for when everyone is free, and with summer break right around the corner, our school-bound gamers will have plenty of time on their hands.

I love how the rogues got beefed up, too! Rogues do it from behind, but now they can do it from behind with magic! xD

I didn't know there was a WoW table-top either. o_o Learn new things everyday, huh?

Why would you want to play a WoW table top game?
isn't the computer game soul sucking enough?
@.@

-yes I've played wow.
I can see what people like but its just not for me... not after my boyfriend was obsessed with it... said he would play it WITH me and didn't...
WoW is NOT good enough for me to forgive that..
Dx

Anyways;
I really want to play the OZ table top game as well as look into the Firefly one...

Gah... That really sucks, Miz.

I've heard about the Firefly game, and I'd really love to play that one. Browncoat 4 life. xD

Oz: Dark & Terrible, right? That sounds like it'll be good. It kinda reminds me of that mini-series they had on Syfy, Tin Man.

yep that one; It reminds me of the Tin Man as well
which is why I got it gave it to my GM (aka my dad) and I'm having him read it and teach me and a small group of friends (basically whoever I can get to go with me and learn it)

brown-coats 4 life indeed <3

Never played WoW except in table-top form. I refused to get into is since I was in university and didn't want to get into the whole online gaming thing. I'll stick with my comp and consoles, thank you very much, but I'll admit that the odd time we played Baldur's Gate 2 muiltiplayer was great fun, but there were three of us and we were all in the same room with connected computers. That said, I'd still prefer to table-top game to anything electronic any day.

Well... I went downtown today to see how much our local used game store has changed... Its more of a hobby shop now. They sell table-top and trading card games, and they host 4e and Dark Heresy games. Its surprising how much has changed, but its really cool.

I even found a game called Zombies! It kinda reminds me of Left 4 Dead, but with more backstabbing. It looked really interesting, but I can't afford it, sadly. Ah well, there's always next time.

wow sanepsycho you play the same games i do ;D

Orly? We only game together, Exile! :DDD

Zombies!!! the board game? I have that one here, complete with an extra "bag-o-zombies" since we've found there weren't enough in the game. There are four of them now, I think, with some expansions. Fun games. :)

Not enough zombies? o_O Even though the game comes with 100 of 'em? Or maybe that was just the box I found...

And our group has broken another nerd barrier. We're gonna start recording our sessions. At least our Pathfinder ones. We start our game this Saturday, so I'm really excited for it. ^_^

Yeah, well, in a four player game you go through them pretty fast since players hang onto them once they are killed for the zombie count option of winning the game. By the end of the game the board was pretty much plugged and getting to the helicopter pad was a bit of wishful thinking for some players. We would throw zombies in front of each other all the time to slow each other down if certain people were running for the pad.

Ahh, I see. Hahaha! That's really awesome! I'm definitely gonna have to pic that one up. >:3

I started my firs time table-topping at all with Star Wars last week, but we've moved onto D&D.
The group I'm with is hilarious and so far, really fun. :>
this is my character
Half-elf ranger. >|3 Fufufufu.

Oooh, that's a cool character pic, Blaine.

If ya can't see the Ranger, you're in trouble. >:3

My original character is a human ranger. She tends to be the back-up everything. She's the one who heals the cleric when he goes down (our cleric is not the hide-in-the-back-ranks-and-heal-people type) and does the sneaky ambush stuff when the rogue is low on hit points.

My other character include a halfling cleric that I keep trying to get killed, a half-elf fire obsessed cleric, and an elf bard with the wisdom of a turnip. My online characters are/were a human cleric (extrmemely tough cleric), happy gnome druid, half-elf bard that gambles, cheats, lies, and changes his life story every 15 minutes or so. I like him. :D. Oh, forgot, in table top there was also the gold-elf dumb blonde barbarian and the tauren fire shaman, and online the equivalent of "Fabio the Barbarian." Blue eyes, blonde hair, shiny teeth that go *ping,* etc.

I've never liked rangers. (except in Icewind Dale where they double hp at first level for some strange reason. :D) They feel too spread out, excelling at nothing, and specialization is the name of the game in DnD. Favored Enemy is too niche, and too weak, to be a defining class feature.

...Suzerain may be a bit of a powergamer.

Anyway, while we're on the subject, the character I have in Quiet's online game is a bit complicated. He's an Aasimar cleric 6/paladin of justice 2, he worships pure lawful neutrality and is an atheist (sort of). He also has traded Turn Undead for additional Smite Chaos attempts, and uses Spontaneous Casting instead of prepared.

Favoured enemy I think was tougher in 3e than in 3.5. It seems the Ranger may have gotten powered down a little over the years. My Ranger was 2e to start with, 18/00 strength so yeah, superhero. I dropped it to 18 when we converted to 3e because humans can't have starting strength beyond 18 in the new rules (18/00 translates to 23) and I was a bit less of a powergamer than I used to be. My sorcerer/bard online (which I totally forgot about) had her highest stat at 16! Gasp! I would freak at something that "low" when I was 14 (agewise). ;)

I remember when I redid all the classes for my campaign setting to bring them all up to the power level I wanted, the Ranger got the biggest boost. I think I basically fused Ranger and Scout, upped the Favored Enemy bonus to 1/2 ranger level, and fleshed out their combat styles more.

Haha, that reminds me...back in fifth grade, my friends and I used to play something apparently similar to DnD...paper-wars version.

Uh...technically you just necro'ed the thread but I think it's all good, right, mods? -grimace-