Happy 40th Birthday, Dungeons & Dragons

SF Weekly ^ | Mon., Jan. 6 2014 | Mollie McWilliams

[Crim]

It’s also played live online...”DDO” ( Dungeon and dragons online) is a “free to play” download.

[EEGator]

If one is a D&D enthusiast, I recommend the Dragonlance novels by Weis and Hickman.

[thoolou]

Seconded.

[SpinnerWebb]

Played Tasslehoff in the original game from the series.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Imagination is powerful. D & D is all about imagination. It consumed myself and quite few of the kids in my small town for a time. It drew many of us away from social activities, reality, and especially from God's Word.

At the end of 9th grade I liberated myself from D & D by throwing over $250 worth of DM Guides and Modules in the trash. A step that allowed me time to read the Bible, think about reality, and consider my end in God's Eternal View.

One of the best things that ever happened to me!

PS: the Bible has very little good to say about imagination (Genesis 6:5). I believe we are living in days similar to Noah (Luke 17:26)

[Crim]

It’s a game...it’s what the players make it...

I was much more into the table top war gaming aspect than the fiction or back round information...and I really enjoyed painting gaming figures...

Still have a couple fully painted armies.

[Snickering Hound]

[dragonblustar]

It looks like one of those games where you down load for free but end up paying out from time to time to get ahead in the game.

[dfwgator]

[EEGator]

Did you often “acquire” goods?

Not stealing of course...

[EEGator]

LOL, It’s better than watching the EPL...

[dfwgator]

Watch it.

[EEGator]

:)

I am looking forward to the World Cup this Summer.

[dfwgator]

LOL, It’s better than watching the EPL...

It's certainly better than watching the Gators this past season.

[EEGator]

[Ransomed]

I think those Dragonlance novels were one of the worst things ever to happen to D&D.

FReegards

[Sawdring]

Genesis 6:5 doesn’t say having an imagination is bad but having an imagination filled with evil is.

[EEGator]

That’s quite a wonderful explanation...

[Ransomed]

Sorry, it was a pretty brief and inscrutable comment. My bad.

After those books got so popular (I even liked the first trilogy) the rules started to change, in my opinion. They did make D&D much more popular, but it then became bloated with an emphasis on a story with nigh invulnerable plot driven characters. The modules based on that Dragonlance stuff were just awful railroads with little player or DM choice provided, in my opinion.

Freegards