IC D&D?

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Hello, all!

I had an idea for a thing, and I wanted to gauge interest.

The short version: I would like to have George (who has never played D&D) run a D&D campaign for characters (most of whom will probably also never have played D&D).



In George's canon, his roommate, Simon, is super geeky, and loves tabletop RP. He tries repeatedly to get the other students to play a campaign, but they all refuse on account of their real lives looking too much like a D&D campaign.

Now, George himself has never played, but he misses Simon, and I think he'd love to try and get together a group and run a campaign with other Milliways pups. I was thinking we could start it off as a one-shot and see how it goes

Important caveat: I have never played D&D and neither has George, so this would really be a case of someone pseudo-familiar with D&D DMing for the first time based solely on whatever books Bar (aka The Seattle Public Library System) can drum up. Which, really, I think is half the fun of this idea.


Like I said, I'm just gauging interest right now, so let me know if that's something you (and/or your pup) might be interested in participating in.

Questions? Comments? Personal Problems? Anyone care for a mint?

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[irish_vagabond]

I've never played D&D either but I can offer up an opinionated and argumentative vampire as someone who might be interested.

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[sunbaked_baker]

This would be soooo much fun! :D:D:D I'd absolutely throw Sunshine into it. I've played in a couple of campaigns, but have never DM'd, myself.

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[quick_clean_pure]

I'm down for throwing Graverobber into this! I have admittedly never played D&D but am familiar with it via a lot of Critical Role watching.

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[genarti]

I haven't played much in ages, although that's a thing I'm trying to fix, so this is more preliminary interest than commitment, but...

I can't help but cackle over the idea of Thor thinking he's signing up for an adventure game, actually signing up for "an adventure game we play while sitting still, using dice, and doing math," and but carrying on anyway because he said he would, and being really good at certain aspects and really godawful at others.

[sunbaked_baker]

Thor would be BRILLIANT.

I have this image of Thor so into the game as the party goes into battle. He describes his attack in great detail and with great gusto, and rolls... a one.

[curlytop]

This sort of thing is EXACTLY why I want to do this.

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[holdingacat]

Cecil would do it! He's never played D&D, but... dude, he writes fanfiction and forces his interns to proof-read it. He's down.

He'll also be gawdawful at it. :D

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[inlovewithwords]

OH MY GOD I WANT TAVI IN A D&D CAMPAIGN OR WHATEVER OTHER SYSTEM IT CAN BE FATE OR EXALTED OR CALL OF CTHULHU OR WHATEVER ALSO HE TOTALLY WANTS TO DO IT TOO HE HAS NEVER HEARD OF IT BUT HE WANTS TO IN AN EARTH AU HE IS A GEEK HE WILL LEARN ALL THE RULES AND THEN FIND EDGE CASES






hi i mean

uh

i'd be interested?

also willing to offer up any of my others--Lois, Evelyn (aka future Dragon Age Inquisitor), Eriond, R2, and I guess also Anakin but uuuuh that might be an interestingly poor and hilarious choice at once but look basically it's D&D count me in

[curlytop]

R2 RPing would be the MOST ADORABLE.

[inlovewithwords]

For the record he will be a complete and utter min-maxing dick.

(do you read darths and droids?)

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I have zero idea what that means (see above re: never having done this before) :D

(I do not, but I will always take recommendations.)

[inlovewithwords]

Well we know from canon and his game with Chewie that he's kind of petulant and a sore loser, and if he gets to build a character, you know he's going to try optimizing it numerically to be as efficient as possible. It's what he does.

(Ooooh definitely read Darths and Droids, actually! Especially if you want to do this. You can learn a lot about tabletop campaigns from Darths and Droids, and Friendship is Dragons is fairly good for that too. Sorta also DM of the Rings but Darths and Droids is much healthier.)

[configuration_birdwatcher]

I read Darths & Droids through most of the prequel trilogy and then stopped keeping up with it, and that's enough for me to be delighted by the comparison.

[curlytop]

I will definitely check those out! I'm gathering DM tips to go through this weekend.

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[arkadia]

I'd definitely be interested in it as something to throw Eden into.

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[configuration_birdwatcher]

Bastion would probably be curious enough to give it a try if it were pitched to them, despite having absolutely zero experience with playing games or making up stories. Aradia would be interested for sure, since she used to FLARP, a type of Alternian LARPing (the F stands for Fatal).

The mun has played a moderate amount of tabletop games - well, "tabletop", all of them to date have been conducted online through text - but mostly New World of Darkness, although I was in a steampunk Pathfinder campaign for a decent amount of time and I've played some oneshot/two-shot-because-time-constraints D&D 5e games. Also I've been an Order of the Stick reader since 2007-ish but that might not actually mean much.

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[dreamingofelectricsheep]

I have heard such games can lead to a better understanding of people and stronger social bonds.

(Translation: I think I'd love to get in on this with Viv here!]

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[mightbeagoodone]

I'm so in, though I think thekidfrombrooklyn would be better suited than this fella. I've been looking for an excuse to buy dice :D.

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[cottoncandypink]

Depending on when this happens, Wilford might sign up thinking it's something else entirely.

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