Who's played the D&D demo at wizards.com?

[Xartyve]

If you havent here it is!

So who's played it? I have and I gotta say, 13 AC for Aramil. And only 7 hit points. Also the voice actor for chris was kind of... okay it sucked. Sorry bout such a stupid thread but I just wanted to see what others thought

[Divides]

That... was... PAINFUL!!!


Ok... except for the "Is it a really big kobold?" line. That was kind of amusing :-p.

[The_Pope]

"I nail it for 5 points!"

I swear, I wanted to punch that guy in the jaw and steal his lunch money.

[Krimm_Blackleaf]

That may very well be the one reason the nerd/geek stereotype gets such a bad name.

[Scorpina]

...agh, that was... terrible...

[Rex Idiotarum]

Flash Rocks! helping nerds become nerdier since the invention of newgrounds.

[Druid]

What kind of DM ends an adventure like that?

[Scorpina]

...the same kind who tells you the enemies AC?

[Amotis]

What kind of DM ends an adventure like that?

You play at Comic Con? At the wizard's booth? It was horrible, absolutely horrible. We apparntly had to walk a undead dog (he picked a figure randomly) and were attacked by goblins for no reason. The ending was... "you killed the goblins, you walked the dog and got money from it's owner." The DM was trying to be funny...I think, he kept cracking stupid jokes about how the dog wasn't eatting enough or something. It was lame.

WTF? I mean, as if people weren't turned off by D&D already, make THAT your first experiance? Huh?

'Course we had fun by pretending that we didn't know D&D.

Linda (Me) - "I attack Regdar."
Regdar (friend) *snickers*
DM - "You can't attack Regdar, he's your friend."
Linda (Me) - "No, I want his sword. I attack Regdar."

[daggaz]

OMG they are actually trying to reinforce the DnD is only for geeks stereotype!

Did you notice how the DM's voice betrays the presense of a retainer?? She sounds alot like Shelly from SouthPark. LAME.

[Amotis]

Spares? Spears, you mean?

[Rex Idiotarum]

I've got to end adventures like that.
"Now that I've had you play a session of Zombies ate my Homework, go out and buy any D&D, D20 Modern, or any other Dice-based RPG."

[mikeejimbo]

And here I was hoping it'd be over when I killed the second Kobold...

[AmoDman]

Oh God, I've played it before, and I couldn't bear to play it again after loading it up. It is sooooo bad. If you want to play a real PC rpg, then play a real PC rpg...not this pseudo pen & paper trash.

[Divides]

Oh God, I've played it before, and I couldn't bear to play it again after loading it up. It is sooooo bad. If you want to play a real PC rpg, then play a real PC rpg...not this pseudo pen & paper trash.

Well, duh! It's ment primarilly as a demonstration for people that want to see what the game is like, not to be a game in and of itself.

Now, the fact that it SUCKS as such... well, that's another matter :-p.

[Druid]

Everytime it told me I could do anything in DnD I was wondering "why can't I attack the elf?"

[mikeejimbo]

Oh God, I've played it before, and I couldn't bear to play it again after loading it up. It is sooooo bad. If you want to play a real PC rpg, then play a real PC rpg...not this pseudo pen & paper trash.

To be fair, this isn't a PC RPG, it's a short flash video that's supposed to teach you the basics of D&D. And it pretends to be interactive, too.

[JimmyDPawn]

Ow. >_-

This would be the point where I makes some sort of lame joke about losing HP from that, or something.

[Divides]

Ow. >_-

This would be the point where I makes some sort of lame joke about losing HP from that, or something.

Or, in my case, "Aaand I take ANOTHER point of wisdom damage."

[Rex Idiotarum]

AHHHHH!!!! I have no more Sanity points left! I mean it's a good thing I don't play by those variant rules.

[Xartyve]

What kind of DM ends an adventure like that?

...the same kind who tells you the enemies AC?

Hey, you're right!

[Skyserpent]

They need to invent new adjectives for pain.

Suffering no longer cuts it.

[Matthew]

I don't know what you guys are on about. That demo is great. I laughed my ass off the first time I saw it, which was some years ago.

You obviously don't remember the horror that was the Dragon Strike Hyper Reality Video or First Quest Audio CD.

[Ikkitosen]

Sooooooo baaaaaaaaaaaaaad.......

[clarkvalentine]

Yeah, it's kind of cringeworthy for experienced players, but how would you design a flash demo of tabletop D&D intended for people who have no idea how it works?

[Rex Idiotarum]

By actually creating a game. Although there are so many variables...Maybe a simpler version.

[Viscount Einstrauss]

You know I've had trouble convincing somebody to join my weekly D&D sessions entirely because he played this? It doesn't matter that he knows I'm a great storyteller, he's mortified with the belief that all D&D games are like that.

[Divides]

Yeah, it's kind of cringeworthy for experienced players, but how would you design a flash demo of tabletop D&D intended for people who have no idea how it works?

Well, for staters...

1: Not making the DM sound like she has a retainer (as has been mentioned above) for no good reason other than that you can.

2: Giving the people representing the DMs and PCs decent scripts ("WOW! I nailed it for 4 points!" makes the guy sound like a 5 year old, IMHO).

3: Having decent voices for the people being represtented (I understand that it's not supposed to be a massive, awe inspiring theatrical display... but still... the people there sounded like they were struggling not to die from boredom 2/3rds of the time).

4: Actually handling giving things a vague semblance to how it would go in the actual game? I mean, seriously, why were they skipping out on iniciative? It made things sound more arbitrary and silly than really should have been done. Also, what's-his-name should have been behaving like a sane spellcaster, and not a suicidal guy or a rogue... which means not running off on his own into the unknown room when the other door opened (actually, that's not the brightest course of action for most rogues either... but atleast there are SOME reasons it's likely to make sense for them... especially if they're playing the steriotypical thief type :-p). Also, the GM simply announcing what the creatures were was a little off... if they really felt it was necessary to let the audiance know what sorts of things were being encountered, she could have atleast said, "you recognize it as," but NOOOOOO...

I'm sure there are other things I'm not thinking of, but those are deffinetly some of the biggies.

[Were-Sandwich]

Shoot me. please. My hope just died.

[Viscount Einstrauss]

*click click*

Just hold still. Bullets are expensive.