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Today was the last session of Tom's adventure in the character-switching campaign, in which we rescued the fair princess from the bonds of holy matrimony, and killed all her friends, then broke the deal with the only fairies we'd managed to talk to, and threatened to kill our hosts.
This is why adventurers aren't usually invited to weddings, except in Living City.
( game summary )
Next session, Ed's going to run a game with the high-level party (starting level 12). He promised to send us all to hell. Or possibly the abyss. Or something unpleasant like that.
Michelle complained that she still didn't have her 12th level character ready.
Me: "Well, you've got 2 weeks."
M: "I don't have the rules or anything, though..."
Me: "We sent around the SRD. That should have all the --"
M: "The what? See, there you go getting all technical and stuff."
Me: "The System Reference Document. We mailed around three versions of it a month or two ago. It has the rules."
M: "Oh, everything you guys say in those mails is just totally over my head. I just 'delete delete delete' when it comes in my inbox."
Dave: "I'll help you with your character..."
Dave is Michelle's boyfriend/lover/forallIknowthey'remarriedbynow, and always helps her with everything. As a result, there's no *need* for her to know the rules, but I find it mind-boggling how someone could play Dungeons and Dragons for more than two years and still not understand basic things like how to calculate attack and damage.
She *is* a gamer, but I suppose she's a *computer* gamer, and expects to have all the rules and such interpreted for her automatically. And I suppose with the seven of us there that generally happens. But it's still just... huh.
This is why adventurers aren't usually invited to weddings, except in Living City.
( game summary )
Next session, Ed's going to run a game with the high-level party (starting level 12). He promised to send us all to hell. Or possibly the abyss. Or something unpleasant like that.
Michelle complained that she still didn't have her 12th level character ready.
Me: "Well, you've got 2 weeks."
M: "I don't have the rules or anything, though..."
Me: "We sent around the SRD. That should have all the --"
M: "The what? See, there you go getting all technical and stuff."
Me: "The System Reference Document. We mailed around three versions of it a month or two ago. It has the rules."
M: "Oh, everything you guys say in those mails is just totally over my head. I just 'delete delete delete' when it comes in my inbox."
Dave: "I'll help you with your character..."
Dave is Michelle's boyfriend/lover/forallIknowthey'remarriedbynow, and always helps her with everything. As a result, there's no *need* for her to know the rules, but I find it mind-boggling how someone could play Dungeons and Dragons for more than two years and still not understand basic things like how to calculate attack and damage.
She *is* a gamer, but I suppose she's a *computer* gamer, and expects to have all the rules and such interpreted for her automatically. And I suppose with the seven of us there that generally happens. But it's still just... huh.
