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HenriqueVT: BTW, just so I don't have to start another thread, would you guys recommend playing D&D after having enjoyed games like Baldur's Gate thoroughly? (I mean the AD&D 2nd edition)
In a way, yes, but as others have already stated, it's more about having a functioning group than the edition/characters/whatever. For instance, two of our group arse about (in the "let's shit on that headstone and see if anything interesting happens!" sense) frequently. We're pretty flexible as to how much you should act on your character's whims, but shitting on graves and such acts fit their characters so badly that we often tell them to cut the shit out and act properly. The DM has punished them occasionally (god of the dead strikes the shitting character with a 6d6 lightning bolt), which does bugger all to stop them. Random behaviour and its implications can be fun on occasion, but we're mostly concerned that it will get us royally screwed at some point (as in section 6.)

We play 3.5e, in case you're interested. The books are pretty rare and so bleeding expensive that some of us have resorted to torrenting them.
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HenriqueVT: BTW, just so I don't have to start another thread, would you guys recommend playing D&D after having enjoyed games like Baldur's Gate thoroughly? (I mean the AD&D 2nd edition)
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AlKim: In a way, yes, but as others have already stated, it's more about having a functioning group than the edition/characters/whatever. For instance, two of our group arse about (in the "let's shit on that headstone and see if anything interesting happens!" sense) frequently. We're pretty flexible as to how much you should act on your character's whims, but shitting on graves and such acts fit their characters so badly that we often tell them to cut the shit out and act properly. The DM has punished them occasionally (god of the dead strikes the shitting character with a 6d6 lightning bolt), which does bugger all to stop them. Random behaviour and its implications can be fun on occasion, but we're mostly concerned that it will get us royally screwed at some point (as in section 6.)

We play 3.5e, in case you're interested. The books are pretty rare and so bleeding expensive that some of us have resorted to torrenting them.
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How do you use these torrented books?
I mean, do you just open them up on a PDF at your home computer or do you print them etc.
With these games being removed from other sites as I hear, GOG will probably have less reason to put them on sale.
I'm really hoping for an EA sale tomorrow myself. My head would undoubtedly explode if this happened.
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AlKim: In a way, yes, but as others have already stated, it's more about having a functioning group than the edition/characters/whatever. For instance, two of our group arse about (in the "let's shit on that headstone and see if anything interesting happens!" sense) frequently. We're pretty flexible as to how much you should act on your character's whims, but shitting on graves and such acts fit their characters so badly that we often tell them to cut the shit out and act properly. The DM has punished them occasionally (god of the dead strikes the shitting character with a 6d6 lightning bolt), which does bugger all to stop them. Random behaviour and its implications can be fun on occasion, but we're mostly concerned that it will get us royally screwed at some point (as in section 6.)

We play 3.5e, in case you're interested. The books are pretty rare and so bleeding expensive that some of us have resorted to torrenting them.
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HenriqueVT: Last question

How do you use these torrented books?
I mean, do you just open them up on a PDF at your home computer or do you print them etc.
They're in PDF format, so we've got at least two laptops at any given moment: one for the DM, and another one for the players. A desktop PC wouldn't really work since we could see what the DM was up to. It must be said, though, that we do most of the computer work beforehand and mostly keep laptops around so we can look up things, so they're not strictly necessary.

We have printed out some information that needs to be available all the time and is otherwise scattered among about a billion books; namely spells, since old classes have occasionally been given access to new spells and new classes use many old spells that you have to look up from old books. Proper spell lists (official or unofficial) don't exist as far as we know so we've had to compile them ourselves for whichever class we happen to be playing, using time, coffee, patience, pizza and beer.