Me and the DMG
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squeen
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Another convert...(with caveats, but he'll get there). The B/X intro-to-D&D shelf-life is starting to expire.
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Perhaps you meant "cleric"?
The Heretic
Should be playing D&D instead
He probably meant Cyrillic. It's the drugs, you know.
That was the joke!
Beoric
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Oops, I will go back and fix that.
Yup. I was there on Friday with two of my kids, and have been going there since it was in Marda Loop. I also think I may have been in the original, before Gord bought it, if that was on the lower level of Southcentre Mall.Your local game store is Sentry Box?
It's a safe space, for like everybody. Totally nerdy but somehow avoids that creepiness you get in a lot of nerdy stores. Real mix of people, too; on Friday I saw a dude in an Audi wearing a suit and expensive topcoat go in (his blonde partner with the heavily hairsprayed hair opted to stay in the car, though).
DM me if you ever decide to go on a pilgrimage.
squeen
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Last night I used the DMG random insanity table for the first time!
My kids took over control of some NPC to perform a heist while their main PCs were traveling elsewhere (off to a minor war-battle --- which we'd already played out many months ago but they still weren't back). The NPCs I gave them to choose from were all survivors, rescued from a magical prison which left most of them insane. My daughter wanted to play one of the insane ones, so we rolled twice on the DMG table and I let her pick the mental affliction.
First roll was manic-depressive, which was only so-so for the circumstances, but the second was schizoid. Per the DMG (pg 83):
*Not saying Mental illness is funny...
My kids took over control of some NPC to perform a heist while their main PCs were traveling elsewhere (off to a minor war-battle --- which we'd already played out many months ago but they still weren't back). The NPCs I gave them to choose from were all survivors, rescued from a magical prison which left most of them insane. My daughter wanted to play one of the insane ones, so we rolled twice on the DMG table and I let her pick the mental affliction.
First roll was manic-depressive, which was only so-so for the circumstances, but the second was schizoid. Per the DMG (pg 83):
My daughter, who can sometimes be a very risk-adverse/passive player, leaned hard into this and it was hilarious*.
*Not saying Mental illness is funny...
Alexander Moonbeam
*eyeroll*
It's bizarre to me because that's not remotely what being schizoid means. Is this a matter of scientific definitions changing over time, or did the author just not know much about psychology?
I was diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder at the age of 21, incidentally. Dungeons & Dragons became hugely therapeutic in that regard.
I was diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder at the age of 21, incidentally. Dungeons & Dragons became hugely therapeutic in that regard.
The1True
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Per the author's suggestions, we've been playing with insanity tables in Barrowmaze. We've been keeping it strictly cartoonish (Character won't go anywhere alone. Character is deathly afraid of any quantity of water (and starts to die of thirst) etc.). It's lead to some excellent light rrrroleplaying.
Real mental illness is no joke though!
Real mental illness is no joke though!
I would have to assume the latter: not knowing or caring much about real-world usage, only looking for a game term. Note that real-life phylacteries are also unrelated to persisting beyond death, and real-world Christianity does not distinguish "devils" from "demons" (they are synonymous).
squeen
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I am sorry to hear that. The description you linked would make for a lonely existence.
Beoric
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Yeah, the insanity table (and pretty much everything else) was based on the popular understanding of various ailments, which were almost universally wrong. Finding correct answers was much more difficult before the internet (as was finding wildly loony conspiratorial answers).
Beoric
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Interesting sighting of D&D in the media:
Embrace the Nerd: Dungeons & Dragons and Military Intelligence - War on the Rocks
Embrace the Nerd: Dungeons & Dragons and Military Intelligence - War on the Rocks
squeen
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I think that's a great article! Factually correct (a rarity!) about the hobby, and with a tone focused on tactical & strategic thinking. This is what the hobby was all about at the beginning --- not what it has morphed into when it mainstreamed (i.e. fantasy projection of self).
I love this. Takes me back.
I love this. Takes me back.
The1True
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uch. My knee jerked a little and then I back-spaced through everything, sorry man
Greetings from sunny Togo btw. I'm back in Africa again because I apparently hate myself.
squeen
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I had noticed your absence. Be safe!