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[coldwinter44]

hey Nikson for your idea for a forum-based D&D im ok with it but not in english(because im sux in english LOL)

[Blood-Pigggy]

Just to spare it from another member.
Use the edit button on your posts instead of double-posting.
D&D would be good, it's just hard to find the better D&D games with custom parties.

[Nikson]

no, we wouldn't be using a D&D game (like baldur's gate, neverwinter nights, etc).
We'd be using an actual pen and paper adventure used in official D&D adventures by Wizards of the Coast registered members.

If my previous sentence didnt make sense, I'll explain.
pen and paper D&D (where people have a bunch of stats on paper and roll dice) is still widely played everywhere. I took the WotC (wizards of the coast) quiz for becoming an official DM (dungeon master) and passed. I can run games in any official WotC event.

So what my suggestion is about in this forum-based game would be:
1. players state that they'd like to play. The game rules are similar to Baldur's gate (which uses slightly simplified core D&D rules)
2. players create their characters in baldur's gate or similar games, then post their stats, inventory, etc.
3. when at least 4 players have made their characters, the game begins.
4. the DM starts the adventure by telling the characters where they are (usually a village/town/city) and what they can do (rumors they have heard, jobs offered by the mayor/king/etc).
5. the players decide on a course of action.

how does that sound?

[Blood-Pigggy]

I know what Pen & Paper is.
But generally we have screenshots to show the outcome of each scenario.
Or something like that. I still want to do a Fallout Tactics game.

[Nikson]

Screenshots? How do you mean?

[Fruit Pie Jones]

I think he's just saying that in our current games, the person running the game posts screenshots showing major in-game events. See the UFO thread for example. Obviously, you couldn't do this with a pen-and-paper RPG, unless maybe you wanted to post digital photos of dice rolls. Oooo, exciting! BTW, I support the idea of a pen-and-paper RPG, and I might consider playing, except that I'm worried I might occasionally not be able to post for several days, which would bring the game grinding to a halt.

[Nikson]

There's a simple work-around for inactive players. If there's no battle going on, they just automatically follow the others.
If there's a battle, the DM plays their part.

As for screenshots, which I understand would be used as an update of current status, we can have, in the first post of the topic, have a list of:
- players with their current stats, inventories, active spells, etc.
- current quest
- current map (if possible, i.e: town or dungeon) would be an image
- current battle (list of enemies and their status: fighting, disabled, unconscious, dead, turned, stunned, etc...)

[moogle]

D&D rules (I think...)
I'm not that into D&D (it takes forever to set up, and my family/friends aren't really into it either so its not like theres a huge ammount of people I could play it with) but I think a forum D&D game would be awesome!! I'd be willing to try and keep updates/tabs on it if you wanna do it...

[Nikson]

Those aren't the rules, just the changes made after the handbooks were printed. A copy of the rulebook is about $25-$40 (just for the player handbook)

or you can get the pdf versions from p2p networks

I sure would want to see this get off the ground though.

[moogle]

Ah, thats what I thought, I have a copy of a handbook hidden away somwhere (haven't used it at all LOL) but I think its really old/outdated, but if you guys want we could use that...