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Thomar_of_Uointer 05-15-05, 12:45 AM	This is an ecstatic rant. Don't yell at me for not contributing anything to the forum. So I'm at a friend's house for her birthday party and we find a D&D starter kit in her closet. It has 7 or 8 premade characters, a foldout map with tokens, and a handbook containing dungeons and adventures using the whole map. I look at it and say, "hey, I can DM for that." Three hours later, I have just run the best D&D game of my life. And we had only fought a practice battle to get them on the rules and one room from the adventure book, an adventure involving rescuing a unicorn from some goblins. The neat thing about this is that none of the stats get in the way. On the PHB character sheet, the player's stats come first and the important game information comes later. It gets in the way for new characters. The sheets for this starter kit have the character's hp, attack rolls, damage rolls, and AC on the front, other stats on the second page, and a detailed description pertaining to the character's class on the third and fourth page. My best friend who has played D&D before was a bit turned off by being handled like he didn't know how to play D&D (although he still doesn't very well), but everyone else loved it. I had the players roleplay the combat. Best friend did things like "I stamp on the goblin's foot to hold it down while I take its head off with my mace", but birthday girl played Lidda with a tortured past and bad experiences with boyfriends. "This is for running off with that other girl you @#$%!, and then I jump on him and stab him with my short sword until he stops moving! Hah!" The only problem I noticed was that Tordek incorrectly has a movement speed of 15' in scale mail. I had a lot of fun, and learned a lot from it.
Aeromus 05-15-05, 03:33 AM	His movement was correct. That boxxed set was for 3.0 back before dwarves didnt lose speed for medium/heavy armor.
Hengwrt Ellesmere 05-15-05, 10:27 AM	The new 3.5 boxed set is also very good for a pickup game, and it has instructions for random dungeon generation so that you can play through it over and over again. Plus you get lots of nice minis with it.
Aeromus 05-15-05, 01:28 PM	The new boxxed set doesn't come with a tordak or Miliea, or Jozan figure. I cried. You get Eberk, the dwarf cleric, Aramil the elf sorceror..... instead... but you do get Regdar, whom is a better fighter then tordak imho.
High Octane 05-15-05, 01:31 PM	Regdar is the Mack-Daddy.
Hexius Waydrifter 05-15-05, 03:49 PM	Yea, I have that starter kit. I had a good experience too, even though I didnt know the first thing about DnD back then and it was with one other person. I hardly described anything and roleplaying was nonexistant, but hey pretty good for my very first time.
Santrilla 05-15-05, 04:09 PM	Aye, the starter kits are really good. I wish I'd had one when I started. (Starter kits?! In my day you were lucky to get your own dice! Most of us had to make do with pebbles! Ohh no, kids these days, take everything for granted... *mutter*) My friends bought me a 2nd Edition starter kit for Christmas. It's really hilarious because it comes with a CD of recorded responses. It's like: Track 1 'Greetings, mighty adventurers! Go slay some goblins!' In the book: 'If players go to slay goblins, go to track 3. If they kill the priest, go to track 2.' Track 2 'OH GODS! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME?!' Track 3 '*forest noises*' Really funny to listen to in the background while we were playing. :P