[FastJack]

Ahh, it's conversations like this, while drinking hot cocoa in a Perkins/Denny's/IHOP at two in the morning, being overheard by waitresses that have been on the night shift since 1974, strippers getting off their shift, and drunk jocks going home after last call; THOSE are some of the reasons PnP gets a bad rap...

[Dead Monky]

Or some of the unmentionable stuff a friend of mine and his high school group did.  *shudders*

[Chaotic Insane]

Oh you didn't see my group back when Doom had his blue hair. I'm ridiculously loud by myself, my ex could get up there in the decibels if you got him going enough... We sat down at Max'n'Ermas and the second all the coats were off, the two little kids didn't even try and hide staring at the gothish looking boy with NEON BLUE HAIR and a tophat. They ate sideways. And that was before we got talking about campaigns and warhammer and whatever else was going on at that point in time. I think we've actually made people get up and move.

We also are usually playing that cardgame from Pathfinder or Zombie Dice or something whenever we go out to dinner. I think we tried to play magic once, too.

And that's not even touching on how morbid I am in just casual conversation. XD

... however, we do usually make a point to tip very well at the same time... so that probably helps in the whole them-letting-us-back-in-the-building-again... XD

[FastJack]

Good tipping must be a gamer trait. I feel guilty if I leave less than 20%.

[The Doomed One]

What the hell is a kender?

They're like halflings with no sense of tact. Oh, and their compulsive shoplifters/thieves, but they are simply borrowing it, or 'found' the item (usually in your pocket).

Ah, it's just easier if you watch this

Is it bad that this just makes me want to play a Kender? 

[Chaotic Insane]

That makes you a horrible, horrible person.

Not to mention I just could NOT SEE YOU PLAYING A KENDER. They're so... not you. XD

[FastJack]

That makes you a horrible, horrible person.

Not to mention I just could NOT SEE YOU PLAYING A KENDER. They're so... not you. XD

From what she's said of you Doom, I'd pay you money to play one just to watch the others' brains explode.

[The Doomed One]

But the shiny...

And I will gladly accept that monies.

[Chaotic Insane]

You have no concept of how... not kender... he is. XD Really.

It would make brains explode to see him that hyper and animated. It only happens when we keep him up past like... 2 am. It actually scared me the first time. XD

[Devil]

I was always the dashing solomnic knight, back in the day, when I played Dragonlance.
"Est Sularus Oth Mithas" lol
Nobody I knew played it after 3rd edition came out. Same with Greyhawk. I played Forgotten Realms a ton since then, which I like alot too. Haven't gotten a chance to try all the settings, but I'd like to. Ravenloft, Spelljammer, Dark Sun... Theres so many cool ones out there.

[Dead Monky]

Good tipping must be a gamer trait. I feel guilty if I leave less than 20%.

Same here.

I was always the dashing solomnic knight, back in the day, when I played Dragonlance.
"Est Sularus Oth Mithas" lol
Nobody I knew played it after 3rd edition came out. Same with Greyhawk. I played Forgotten Realms a ton since then, which I like alot too. Haven't gotten a chance to try all the settings, but I'd like to. Ravenloft, Spelljammer, Dark Sun... Theres so many cool ones out there.

I've never played an official setting before.

[Devil]

They can be alot of fun. Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms are both top notch.

I've designed my own settings as well and that can be pretty awesome too. When I was a kid I had this map of a setting I made. It was probly 3' by 4' foot and drawn detailed and small. Since it was drawn as adventures unfolded in it, there was a ton of info about every landmark. it started as a normal sized piece of paper which was expanded by taping other pieces of paper to the original when more space was needed. Lol. I was like 15 or 16. I went to an alternative school where we pretty much did what we wanted all day... and that was D&D, CCGs, and battles with boffer style weapons (We had been using wooden poles. Someone cracked a rib, so the school bought us stuff to make boffers.).

[Dead Monky]

I use my own setting for the most part.  I started working on it about 6 years ago and my gf and I have been building on it for the last two or three years.  It's starting to get fairly involved and complicated.  The only map I have is one simple on on an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of graph paper.  It shows the entire world laid out flat.

And from what I've played of the D&D based videogames, I don't like the Forgotten Realms setting.  At all.

[Devil]

Judging a setting based on console video games is like judging a good book based on a low budget tv series version of it.
It's like saying all comic books suck, cuz you hate Toby Maguire. I think Forgotten Realms can be better portrayed through the large collection of novels or the campaign setting books and guides, than through some poorly made adventure games that have nothing to do with the setting. I mean aside from the name Baldur's Gate, which was stolen from a better series of computer games for the sole purpose of boosting sales.

[Dead Monky]

I've read through a few guidebooks as well.  Including almost the entire 4th Ed one and good chunks of an AD&D one.

But I get what you're saying.  I should really give it a chance, but nobody I know plays it so......  Hey, wait, my gf has some of the Drizzt books.  I could give those a shot.  Though she said I would probably get only part way into one before hurling it into the nearest fire.

Damn I'm picky.