Hello and Welcome New Members, Thread 10

[turkishproverb]

Hi new people! Sorry I'm not giving individual welcomes, but I wanted to at least give a big HI! to everyone who joined recently.

[Impkicker]

Hi there. I've been lurking here forever, but I finally decided to get an account and maybe occasionally post. Hopefully I should have some good discussions here.

[Brokshi]

Hey there, just a miscellaneous lurker going through and making an account after reading the comic for a while, don't mind me.

[Prince_Ornstein]

hullo!! i have read many threads and have spent many nights reading and laughing to myself so i decided to join and share in the fun. love order of the stick and currently dming my second campaign ever. that should do it i suppose...

[Tsriel]

OK.

So, it's taken me forever to register here. You could say that I've been a long time reader of both the comic and the boards (I've gotten some really great character build advice through here) but never bothered to register until today.

I guess the next dillemma; should I draw my own avatar?

[chriscartridge]

Hello everyone! I got into Pathfinder last year and have been lurking the forums since then for all the awesome tabletop discussion that goes on. Decided it was finally time to register. I'm also going through the comic (and Darths and Droids) now that I finally get the jokes!

[Blyaunte]

Hello everyone! I just joined. I am along time reader and fan.

[Savannah]

Hello, Impkicker, Brokshi, Prince_Ornstein, Tsriel, chriscartridge, and Blyaunte! Welcome to the forums

[Grinner]

I guess the next dillemma; should I draw my own avatar?

Go for it.

[spruce56]

New member here - posting partly because I want to see what the official avatars are like. Longtime reader and fan is me

[Henryj]

Hi guys!
Here's a new member of the forum! (really? -.-")

I follow the "Order of the Stick"s stories since.. well, a lot of time.. But only lately i discovered the forum, when i was starting a new dnd campaign in a while.

So, hello everyone, nice to meet you^^

[Geezlewark]

Hello one and all!

I'm a long-time reader of the OOTS, and have just been following the forums for awhile when I felt the crazy urge to go gnome and join the fun.

[Greyheart]

I just started reading OotS and caught up in less than a week. I am now anxious for updates.

[Negativethac0]

Hello, Everyone. I too wished to join the choir of new voices currently presenting in this thread.

I come to you from the cold kingdom of Denmark in the North and make my daily living by working as a psychologist and have DM’ed D&D for the last 15 years of my life.

It’s somewhat strange that I have been an avid fan and reader of OOTS for so long, and yet never got around checking out the forums. It seems like a great place with some friendly people around, so I look very much forward to meet you all.

- Regards, Nicolai.

[Killer Angel]

Hello spruce56, Henryj, Geezlewark, Greyheart and Negativethac0, welcome aboard, and enjoy your stay!

mmm... Negativethac0... Epic AD&D levels!

[Duwen]

Hey people, I am Duwen, a die-hard fan of Role-playing games and sports also. Just joined this community to learn about this game and its role. I am 21 and looking forward to make new friends. If anyone wanna ask me something, please feel free to do so.

[Killer Angel]

This is the thread where we say "hello!"

Anyway, welcome aboard.

[Phaelin]

Hi! I'm obviously new. Been reading the comic for about a year. (Known about it for much much longer.) I have a magnet from the KS, so I feel special. :P

[Belladonna Took]

Hello All!

New member here if you didn't guess. I've been wandering the forums for awhile now, and have recently been reading OoTS so I figured I'd join. I play D&D 3.5 and homebrewing is exceedingly exciting to me (as also is alliteration ) and lately I have been contemplating making my own world to start my own campaign. I am an avid reader, currently reading a novel that is around 1200 pages. I love the hobbit (if you haven't realized already), both the book and the movie, though... the book will always seem better to me. I like the Harry Potter movies and books, though to me the books are definitely better because I love detail, which is why I want to completely create my own new world, but I also want to keep it exciting, and I don't want to have to give hour long descriptions to my players!
So thus I will be wandering the homebrew forums most frequently, but I probably won't post for awhile.

Yay so that's me!
Have a good evening/day/night/morning everyone!

[Nolant Marlevy]

So... hi.

I'm a fan of the Order of the Stick, like RPGs and playing them, and have been following the comic since 2006 or so; before Miko fell, at least. I never really had anything to say before, but... well, I guess I do nowadays.

I'll try joining some RPs as well, but I'll probably just post on occasion on the main comic forum.

Enjoy?

[TuggyNE]

Welcome, Phaelin, Belladonna, and Nolant! Homebrew is always fun

[Crimmy]

Welcome to the Playground! I'm almost-retired-avatarist and unusual poster Crimmy, and I invite you all to go over to the Arts and Crafts section to request custom avvies (if you want, of course).

Should you want to go play Silly Message Board Games, you can play those over the SMBG section (or play structured games like Werewolf on it's subsection, Structured games).

[Propagandalf]

Greetings!

Finally decided to join after years of reading the OotS.

So hello to one and all!

[Nightmares Echo]

Yep, another new member amongst all the other droves of other new members!

Greetings everyone, you can call me Vahn. Been gaming for almost 20 years now...it has completely taken over my life, it infects everything I do.

Hope to be talking to a lot of you real soon!

[Duwen]

Heya everyone :) How ya all duin ??
I was just checking out, going to leave with my surfboard me, nd my friends :)
Enjoying this season with the waves alot :) Lucky them :P
U guys too have a great time. Take care see ya :)

[Lex-Kat]

Uh, hi. Have fun with the waves.

[Psycho Yuffie]

Hi, everyone! I've been coming here for at least the last two or three years. I've been using it as a source for information and opinion on D&D. As I have started to expand into custom material, I thought I could use some help in balancing. That's why I decided to finally register. :)

[Xenrei]

Hey, everyone. I have been a long-time OOTS lover for years before, but I joined the forums in late 2012 and kind of forgot them for a while, so I never got around to doing this. But here I am now, so hey!

[Aquatosic]

Hi, I am a junior in high school and I have reading this comic for about a year. I love Square Enix RPGs such as Kingdom Hearts, Chrono Trigger and the Final Fantasy series, but I have never played D&D. From what I have seen in this comic and other tabletop-game-based webcomics and wikipedia and heard from my friend Tyler, I'm interested in trying D&D. I live in the Southern Westchester area near NYC and I want to know whether any knows about an open D&D campaign in that area in some public place like a comic book store or hobby shop. It would be nice if they were forgiving to people who are still learning the rules. I see myself as Neutral Good.

Also I have some general questions about D&D:

1) The success of most actions is controlled by dice right? So what role do stats play in affecting dice rolls?

2) Do I need to bring my own handbook and dice to play? If so, how much are they and where can I find them?

3) Do I have to create my character in advance or do I decide at the beginning of the campaign? Does the DM reveal my backstory as part of the story or do I make it up?

Not to stereotype, but it would nice if the people I were playing with were around my age, or at least in their early twenties if possible. Thanks.

[Savannah]

Hello, Propagandalf (love the name), Nightmares Echo, Psycho Yuffie, Xenrei, and n00bboy2013! Welcome to the forums

I live in the Southern Westchester area near NYC and I want to know whether any knows about an open D&D campaign in that area in some public place like a comic book store or hobby shop.

One thing to be aware of is that OotS is based on D&D version 3.5, which is no longer being supported. Many people still play 3.5 (myself included), but you will also find games using D&D 4th edition and Pathfinder (which is very similar to D&D 3.5). If you're looking for a game, you should decide which system you want to learn as that will effect what games you can play in. I don't know anything about games in game shops, but if you're interested in playing online, we do have a large Play by Post subforum.

1) The success of most actions is controlled by dice right? So what role do stats play in affecting dice rolls?

Stats and other values from your class are added (or subtracted in the case of penalties) to the die rolls.

2) Do I need to bring my own handbook and dice to play? If so, how much are they and where can I find them?

It depends. Most groups are willing to loan out dice for the first few sessions, but you can get a set of the 7 standard dice for ~$5 (or more if you want to get fancy) and it's a good investment if you decide you want to keep playing. You generally don't need your own handbook as long as there's one owned by the group that you can reference as needed. If you decide to learn D&D 3.5 or Pathfinder, there are also free online resources that have pretty much everything you need to get started: 3.5 SRD, Pathfinder SRD.

3) Do I have to create my character in advance or do I decide at the beginning of the campaign? Does the DM reveal my backstory as part of the story or do I make it up?

Your character is yours, the world belongs to the DM. Therefore you make up your own backstory. Do check with the DM to see if there's anything you should or shouldn't include, though (often they'll want a reason for you to be where the game starts, for example).

If you decide to learn D&D 3.5 or Pathfinder (I don't play D&D 4e), feel free to PM me questions -- I don't have time to run another game at the moment, but I'm always interested in helping new players get started