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4th Edition D&D & YouTube Madness!
Aug. 29th, 2007 06:44 pmHi guys, I've been a horrible LJer lately. Partly because I've been busy and/or elsewhere (went home for the weekend) and partly I just haven't really had anything to say/the heart for it. I partly blame hiatus fever. No BSG, no Heroes, not even any Doctor Who. And most of my roleplay games have slowed because Danny disappeared for a month and people have been busy. *sigh*
But anyway, there has been some roleplaying news in the industry. Wizards of the Coast are publishing Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition. My initial reaction was OH DEAR GOD, MY EYES, MY EYES!
( Very long rant about 4th Edition D&D that I'm sure none of my Flist will understand much less want to read! Go ahead and skip on to the YouTube extravaganza! )
So. Yeah.
D&D. Not a roleplaying game. Who knew. In that light, I'm quite proud of me and my group for telling unbelievable stories using it. For having whole games where no one rolled a single dice for combat in a system that even at its best was unwieldy for anything other than combat. For letting us create a shared mythology and iconic characters and even words. For breaking our hearts, and shocking us with plot twists we never saw coming, and terrifying us, and moving us, and making us angry and making us laugh until we felt sick. For letting us play pretend again. The best sort of pretend, where all the amazing character development and action sequences, and emotional wreckage you want to explore gets explored. For letting me be the sane palandin of an insane god, and a girl caught in the undertow of someone else's prophecy, and the weakest of Caine's children burning in the sun, and the woman who gave half her soul to her devil self, and, and, and...
For giving me and my friends control over the characters we love most, not TV companies and distant writers we'll never meet. That's why I love roleplaying. It's the story. It's as addictive as writing, except, when you get the right group of people, the story you make is better and bigger than the cliched sum of its parts.
Forgive me for waxing lyrical; it's a topic I tend to get passionate about. Which is why I'm being indulgent and posting this outside a cut.
( Meanwhile, in YouTube land! )
And really finally, for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sonofgodzilla I found this at icanhastehforce
Have a great day, y'all!
But anyway, there has been some roleplaying news in the industry. Wizards of the Coast are publishing Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition. My initial reaction was OH DEAR GOD, MY EYES, MY EYES!
( Very long rant about 4th Edition D&D that I'm sure none of my Flist will understand much less want to read! Go ahead and skip on to the YouTube extravaganza! )
So. Yeah.
D&D. Not a roleplaying game. Who knew. In that light, I'm quite proud of me and my group for telling unbelievable stories using it. For having whole games where no one rolled a single dice for combat in a system that even at its best was unwieldy for anything other than combat. For letting us create a shared mythology and iconic characters and even words. For breaking our hearts, and shocking us with plot twists we never saw coming, and terrifying us, and moving us, and making us angry and making us laugh until we felt sick. For letting us play pretend again. The best sort of pretend, where all the amazing character development and action sequences, and emotional wreckage you want to explore gets explored. For letting me be the sane palandin of an insane god, and a girl caught in the undertow of someone else's prophecy, and the weakest of Caine's children burning in the sun, and the woman who gave half her soul to her devil self, and, and, and...
For giving me and my friends control over the characters we love most, not TV companies and distant writers we'll never meet. That's why I love roleplaying. It's the story. It's as addictive as writing, except, when you get the right group of people, the story you make is better and bigger than the cliched sum of its parts.
Forgive me for waxing lyrical; it's a topic I tend to get passionate about. Which is why I'm being indulgent and posting this outside a cut.
( Meanwhile, in YouTube land! )
And really finally, for
sonofgodzilla I found this at icanhastehforceHave a great day, y'all!
