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Baby shower gift for D&D player?

seasparrow — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:41:30 -0800

Help! Clueless dorks need to come up with a baby shower gift for our Dungeon Master. My web fu is failing me. Here's hoping the Hive can help.

I'm looking for a Dungeons and Dragons style or similar gift for a baby shower. It seems like there must be something like a little infant's shirt with a d20 on it, but I can't seem to find it.

It really needs to be a D&D or RPG themed gift-- this is for our Dungeon Master for a regular campaign that has been meeting for a while. It will be a gift from the group to the DM. The gift should be for a baby, and it would be nice if it was fairly inexpensive.

I'd be super grateful for any suggestions at all... After checking sites like ThinkGeek I'm still at a loss.

Hopefully the geekiest question I will ever ask

Navelgazer — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:40:33 -0800

Help me build a D&D 3.5 Character I've been invited into a new D&D 3.5 game with a small group of my friends. I'm 28, and the last time I did anything like this I was 13. I enjoyed it then, and expect to enjoy it now, but I don't have the background going into it that the rest of the group will, and as such find the player's handbook a little bit inscrutable.

A couple of years ago, some of my friends and I tried to create our own TTG, which never came to fruition, but some of us still put a lot of thought and work into what we wanted from it. As the setting for our game was to be steampunk, my character was going to be a saboteur. I still really like this idea, and as far as I can tell, the closest thing in D&D 3.5 is the prestige class of "Arcane Trickster."

So basically what I'm asking is - 1.) Is this actually a fun class, or does it just have a cool name? 2.) What would one generally do with this class in practice? 3.) Should I take a Bard or Rogue track to get there? 4.) Assuming that I want to take the Bard track, would I be better off as a Gnome or a Halfling? 5.) What am I knot thinking of that I need to take into account?

Bonus Question: It'd be awesome if I could get my GF involved in the game as well. Her twin sister is a big TTG fan, but my GF has never played, and has a bad opinion of them from having to sit around doing nothing when visiting her sister while their group played and ignored her. The group we're convening is all friends of hers, and she'll have an open invitation to join, but what might I do to make that offer seem attractive?

As always, thank you all.

Dungeons and Dragons for a 10-year-old

PetiePal — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:31:43 -0800

I'm trying to start up some D&D for my 10-year-old nephew. I need a lot of advice, on multiple questions! About 3 years ago (when he was like 7) while we were on vacation and waiting an extensive amount of time for our food at a restaurant, I mapped out a simple little adventure on a napkin for my nephew. He was enthralled and has asked me about "that game we played that time" for years. I'm surprised he even remembered it! Since he's too young to play pay-for-play things like World of Warcraft, I'm trying to find ways to get him into a basic D&D game.

A little background on me...I've never actually reallllly played D&D. But I've read a ton about it, and played games based on it (such as old D&D computer games, Rogue, Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate, HeroQuest etc) So I'm pretty familiar with the rules and role-playing etc.

Now I own:

-AD&D set,

-the D&D Cyclopedia book

-another "basic" set (which I suspect was actually AD&D 3.5 edition, but just called basic)

I've got a ton of dice, because for years I really wanted to start playing but never got around to it. I have 2 first-level modules, and I also bought an old print of The Keep On The Borderlands. However all of these modules are for parties of 4-6.

Should I just create something from scratch? A simple "dungeon-crawl" for him? This brings my other part of of the question. I've never really DM'ed before, only read about it. I have a lot of good ideas for the "experience" such as using music to set mood, and some good ideas for encounters/storyline etc. But I don't know the first thing when it comes to running a D&D game.

Can it be as simple or as complex as I want it to be? Can I mesh versions? What would you recommend as being the "easiest' version of D&D rules to play? D20? THAC0? What about whether the AC is greater as the numbers increase, or the newly changed method where it's reversed? Anyone have any experience in just starting out for youngsters? I need a ton of tips-I want to make it a great time for him.

D&D for a 10 year old boy

jazon — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:06:00 -0800

What is a good Dungeons and Dragons set to get to help a 10 year old boy get into desktop roleplaying games? My son has been playing online roleplaying games (runescape, puzzlepirates) lately and I mentioned he would enjoy playing Dungeons and Dragons. That sparked his interest and he asked if I could get something set up.

Now, I haven't played D&D for over 25 years and I didn't do much dungeonmastering then. I know D&D has expanded and mutated and such; what would be a good starter set that he would enjoy and would make it easy for me to set up a campaign?