Yeh, it's the calculating all that stuff into a dice-roll that I don't get either.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:29 AM Subject: Re: audyssey: Roll Playing Games. > Hi, Allan. > I just downloaded all of the 3.5 rtf files, and have spent the later > part of this afternoon ensconced in reading them. > One of the problems I am having is understanding how to use all that > wealth of info. In fact just reviewing the monsters in the monster > classes I was blown away with the numbers and variations of the > monsters offered. > I also don't understand everything in the tables. How to calculate all > of that in to a dice throw. > Spells was another confusing area. i understood that some monsters or > creatures who could cast some spells while some could not. However, then > they through me by discussing level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc... What in the > heck are all the levels for and if you are a level 1 character how do > you move up to becoming a level 7 character. > While I realise the propriatary info in the DND guides is not important > for real play, Especially if the end result is to create my own world, > but I think I am having a huge problem invisioning a game and what an > average game is like, or even what a true DND world is like. I don't > have many frames of reference. > Actually, I am just coming to like fantacy and mythology, but am limited > do to years of other interests. For many years I only read books and > watched movies largely based on extreme Science Fiction themes Star > Trek, Star Wars, Red Planet, etc.... I never read many fantacy typebooks. > When the Lord of the Rings movies came out i naturally read the books, > and that started me on a quest to read more fantacy books of that sort, > but experience and notions of those sorts of books is still quite vague > for creative writing on my part.] > I've got allot of catching up to do. Smile. > Anyway, we should probably take this off list unless others want it to > stay on. > > > > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindgamers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
