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A few months ago Captain and I finally let someone talk us into giving DnD 4.0 a try (verdict is still "I'm not impressed" btw). We are involved in two games at the moment, one that has been going on all that time and has already switched GMs once, and another that is just a short term module dungeon run that is being used in an attempt to drum up business for the local game store. We bought a Players Handbook and a DM Guide, so I figure thats sixty plus bucks the store wouldn't have received without the game, so yay?
Anyway, while I'm sort of attached to the character I made for the longer game and I've become invested in her backstory and all that stuff, I am having a blast playing with this short term character because she's not meant to be part of a long story arc.
She's ahobbit halfling barbarian named Callie Deathbringer. Four feet tall, pigtailed, with a high pitched voice and a battle cry that amounts to the noise that pig on that annoying insurance commercial makes when it goes racing down the street with the pinwheels. As a matter of fact, Callie even has a pair of crude, handmade pinwheels tucked into her pigtails BECAUSE of that commercial.
"I attempt to use Callie's Roar of Triumph. 'WHEEEEEEEE!'"
The rest of the party laughed at me when I introduced the character, but she's actually a little raging bladed whirlwind of death and high pitched girly squeals, and last night she did 65 points of damage in one hit to the level boss so ...
It's a good thing that the Saturday night game is full of gamers who don't take the came one hundred percent seriously. I mean, we follow the rules and we like to make things dead and all that, but we also like to have a bit of fun with our characters, give them a bit of personality. So Callie fits right in.
In totally unrelated news, I have been craving Hostess Fruit Pies (or some generic brand name equivalent) for weeks and NO ONE HAS THEM. We didn't get to Wal-Mart last night because the game ran late, so we had to go to the base commissary today because the Masters Golf thing starts tomorrow and I am not going into town to shop or eat for the next eight days, thanks. Anyway, the commissary had no fruit pies, either. I finally gave up and made poor Captain stop at a gas station in a last ditch effort and they had one single solitary cherry fruit pie, which I snatched up like it was gold.
I've been passing up Thin Mint ice cream in the hopes of finding fruit pies, people. I'm serious about this.
Anyway, while I'm sort of attached to the character I made for the longer game and I've become invested in her backstory and all that stuff, I am having a blast playing with this short term character because she's not meant to be part of a long story arc.
She's a
"I attempt to use Callie's Roar of Triumph. 'WHEEEEEEEE!'"
The rest of the party laughed at me when I introduced the character, but she's actually a little raging bladed whirlwind of death and high pitched girly squeals, and last night she did 65 points of damage in one hit to the level boss so ...
It's a good thing that the Saturday night game is full of gamers who don't take the came one hundred percent seriously. I mean, we follow the rules and we like to make things dead and all that, but we also like to have a bit of fun with our characters, give them a bit of personality. So Callie fits right in.
In totally unrelated news, I have been craving Hostess Fruit Pies (or some generic brand name equivalent) for weeks and NO ONE HAS THEM. We didn't get to Wal-Mart last night because the game ran late, so we had to go to the base commissary today because the Masters Golf thing starts tomorrow and I am not going into town to shop or eat for the next eight days, thanks. Anyway, the commissary had no fruit pies, either. I finally gave up and made poor Captain stop at a gas station in a last ditch effort and they had one single solitary cherry fruit pie, which I snatched up like it was gold.
I've been passing up Thin Mint ice cream in the hopes of finding fruit pies, people. I'm serious about this.
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I still have not tried 4th edition, which is partially due to bias but also due to my surety that I cannot maintain two sets of rules in my head. I'm having a hard enough time playing Pathfinder and remembering which things are a little bit different from 3.5 (my game of choice).
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It's as if they simultaneously attempted to dumb down DnD AND make it more complicated, and they managed to do the worst of both... which is such a glowing review, isn't it?
As to Callie, she is a load of fun. I couldn't play her in a long term campaign because she's nutso, but she's entertaining for a closed dungeon module thing (the Pyramid of something, I forget what). Every single time we find a statue in a room - "Is there anything shiny on it? Anything that we can move or take off of it? Can I knock it down?" Callie is obsessed with knocking statues over because we found some floaty ghost monster things in a compartment under one once, and the rest of the party keeps humoring her for some reason.