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From what I've heard, D&D is a pretty good game. Thing is, I don't find it appealing sitting around playing it. What about the game, theme-park style?
You pay (or use a membership card if you have one), go in, dress up as a character of choice, if you're with a group you stay with them, or if you're
on your own you go with a group that's a person short. The idea is is that you wander around, and at designated points robotic animal-things will jump out at you and you'll have to fight them. But their weak parts will light up and you have to hit them at those spots as they appear. Of course, depending on how hard you hit, how fast you defeat it and the course, you'll gain experience points, giving you higher levels (which decrease if you don't turn up for a long while), better weapons etc.
There will be parts where all you have to do is climb up certain parts, press buttons in order, etc, so it'll pretty much be a real-life RPG.
For MB's delight & delectation.
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[DrBob, Apr 27 2010]
Fantasy Grounds - Web based, old-school D&D
http://www.fantasygrounds.com/
Not tried it, but it seems like it could be a useful GM's aid & D&D interface. Possibly only on Windows. [Jinbish, Apr 27 2010]
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I like the idea. I am surprised no one has made a d&d park, especially in Vegas (a casino with that theme throughout -- go to your room or call it a Lair, and hot sleezy armor-clad bar girls). + from me |
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you could set up a LARP session at a
park. |
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I think that there is not much intersection between the set of those who love D&D and the set of those who love physically strenuous sports. |
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All of the physical people, being warriors, of course, would be destroyed by the nerdy warlocks... |
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Prepare to be smited with my plus one vorpal bun. |
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Somehow I just can't help feeling it's not coincidence that RPG also stands for rocket-propelled grenade. One seems to bring thoughts of the other... |
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+1 Croissant of Tastiness |
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Good point by [nahte] though. In the absence of properly functioning magic, wizards and the like might be a little puny. |
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Perhaps experience could be given in the form of rolls of tickets to be exchanged for things of value. |
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So, what do we do with the pile of pentacostal protestors prosetylizing at the primary portal? |
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I could see this combined with a laser tag facility somehow. Perhaps laser tag wizardry fights? |
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I have actually done this. About 15years ago in our local ww2 army tunnels and relics. Some mob put on a D&D night. I was part of a party who wandered with swords and the like through the dark tunnels and was confronted by people incostume as orcs etc....... |
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Admission price
Adult................3d12
Child................2d4
Senior.................d8 |
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finally I can use this +2 dragon slaying sword |
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I get the impression that people who play D&D regularly are allergic to sunlight - sunglasses would have to be provided at the entrance to shield the eyes of the pasty-skinned masses, or maybe the whole thing would be indoors? |
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Why did I just get the idea of a Live Action Yugi-oh fight? |
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But I digress...well, either way, the way this is shaping up, it's sounding more like a once-a-year convention than a year-round/seasonal theme park... Am I right in this assumption? |
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wizarding can be simulated by making a potion with
just the right PH by following recipes, opening scrolls
with little radio transceivers, and voice sensing
wands that send infared signals to robotic beasts |
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When you set out on a "campaign" you and everyone in your party are issued a gauntlet-style wearable computer preloaded with your build and linked to the DM (either a "house" DM whichever of your friends drew the short straw I think) by WiFi. The gauntlet is controlled by a touchscreen, automating your rolls and tracking your stats/inventory/XP/etc. The data for each campaign is permanently kept on record so you can come back years latter and pick up the campaign where you left off.
There's also a small mob of out-of-work Actors on hand, ready to improv or take direction (via radio) from the DM to play out homebrew campaigns, but rehearsed in the house campaigns as well. The walls are all Epaper, so the settings can be rapidly changed to whatever the user desires, and at least a few areas are set aside with actual furniture and whatnot for the "Party meets in a seedy Tavern" style scene.
Fuck, this would be even more awesome if we could just get some low-profile Augmented Reality up an running, you could just throw whatever mesh/texture you want on modular 'bots and get look & feel on the cheap... |
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Wow. I haven't seen this. Guess it makes my D&D Park idea
redundant. |
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I feel a need to point out in this thread as well, that the last
group I gamed with included two martial artists, one ex-
marine, and one marathon runner. The assumption that
gamers are all overweight live in the basement types is not
backed up by reality. |
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Speaking of dungeons and dragons, does anyone know where
I can download an old-fashioned, single-player, sits-on-my-
computer- and-doesn't-need-the-web, standalone, graphics-
free, under-featured text only version of D&D? You know,
the one that just says "You're in a maze of twisty little
passages all the same" over and over again? |
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Sometimes I miss nostalgia. To make it harder, I'm on a Mac. |
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@MaxwellBuchanan: Just Google "interactive fiction" and see what you get. You'll need an emulator program to run most of the games, but they are easy to find. It's still a living community, with new games being released even today. I might recommend "Slouching Towards Bedlam", though it's not really fantasy themed. For a more humorous games, find "Conan Kill Everything" or the infamous "Pick up the Phone Booth and Die" |
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Hey, [Maxwell]; you're in a maze of twisty little annotations.
{blinking prompt}... |
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