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Brother runs a StarWars D20 campaign weekly, love it.

eh, I'm more a New World of Darkness kinda guy.

I really don't think Dungeons and Dragons is evil. It's just a good RPG that uses one's imagination as they play. But I've only played it once. I am looking to take it up again, but for those that have played, is getting the latest issue a good investment? Or should I get an outdated book that's at half price or something?

Don't go 4.0. Buy an older 3.5 copy.

Been playing NWN recently.....thankfully i found the PRC pack <3 so much fun new classes to try, sadly they're not all 100% working but meh... It's a nice change from the few basic and prestige classes you get. Oh yeah and some of the new races you get can't even wear armor since they're not dynamic models, bummer.

OK so I will look for version 3.5, but where do I get character sheets? Since I'm still so new and never had any of my own stuff, besides the Player's Handbook, should I go with a monster guide and some dice?

D&Dv3.5 character sheet is located in the back of the Player's Handbook (PH), as I recall. Just copy off as many times as you want - it does come with an explicit license to do so, in case anyone asks any questions. You don't need any other books - the Dungeon Master's Guide (DMG) and Monstrous Manuals (MMs) are supposed to be for the Dungeon Master (DM) only - but if you're hooked up with a hardcore group, you'll probably want one or more of the specialty books for your character class (they're sometimes referred to as "splatbooks"). For instance, if you're running a fighter, barbarian, paladin, or other such sword-guy, you'll want to look into The Complete Fighter and Arms and Armor. Barbarians can also use some of the stuff in Fists and Feet, although that's aimed primarily at monks. And so forth...

I have been known to play a bit of D&D, although lately it's mostly been the nWoD game Vampire: the Requiem. I seldom play bog-standard, though - my D&D world includes a fair number of technological items, sometimes confiscated from the outlawed temples of Technos the Uncaring, the Machine God (whose worship is officially forbidden in most of the world, as popular mythology holds him to be responsible for the Godswar, that destroyed the Old World untold millennia ago), sometimes found in stasis chambers as leftovers from that same Old World; I also permit mages who have stated that they're members of the Order of the Blue Star to take proficiency in unarmed combat, as that's one of the perks of paying your membership fees to the Order. (I've also concealed artifacts in my world that are based on comic books - so far, groups have found the Cloak of the Batman and the Red Gloves of the Spider. No one has the Black Gloves of the Spider yet, so I haven't had to figure out what they wind up doing while they're asleep...)

In our V:tR game, we've given the whole politics thing a miss; instead, we've been sent on a nationwide (so far) scavenger hunt for various mystic artifacts. My teammate is a vampiric gunbunny, with an impressive collection of firearms; my character is a hacker, who was dragooned into this whole thing as an alternative to our benefactor telling the Prince of New Orleans that I was the one who drained his offshore accounts and donated them to the Catholic Church. (I was acting on instructions from my sire, who has already been found and staked out to meet the sun.)

Your campaign sounds awesome and hilarious with the comic book angle. I'd love to bring whatever I create into that world. But DnD is usally played more locally right? Is it ever played online? I assume that's what blog style is.

I like the 3.5 rules. I'm not going to spend extra $$ on the 4.0 rules. The only reason I see to upgrade is if I participated in the Living Greyhawk stuff which I do not.

Character sheets can be downloaded in PDF from the Wizards web site along with a few other locations. I think Wizards has a character sheet for each core character class and some of the newer ones. Also, they have some good stuff like reference sheets that make DMing much easier.

Fun times.

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To Hit Armor Class 0. It's what you need, well, to hit AC 0, which in 2nd Ed. was a good AC.

Actually, I haven't played 4th edition but simplicity isn't necessarily a bad thing. As a DM you don't have to follow what any of the books say. 3.5 I feel takes a while to set up & here's the thing if you're trying to get a game going 4.0 gives you everything you need that stated Wizards isn't stopping you from using 3.5 or making up house rules. d20's aren't the only dice used (they are used for a majority of the tasks but you still need the other dice for weapons & damage). As for the 4.0 = MMO argument I honestly don't think so because even though the books give you a character template what is preventing you from modifying that template? Even 3.5 had starting packages for each of the classes in the Player's Handbook (I own 3.5 handbooks & DMed a game once where it was mostly off the cuff = me making stuff on the fly but I was also learning on the fly as well).