Replay

I want to play Dungeons and Dragons as a PC. A wizard. If not a wizard, then a ranger or a druid. But mostly, I'd like to play D&D as a wizard. A human wizard.

Dungeons and Dragons is very, very difficult to play with distractions going on around you. Today I had enough trouble as it was getting the guys to knuckle down, stop joking around and be serious for five seconds. Whenever I try to initiate a conversation between the players' characters and a non-player-character, I get jokes and take-backs from the players and I never know whether they're being serious or not. It makes it nigh on impossible to have a conversation move on effectively from one character to another. And then the players whose characters aren't present start butting in and... well that's what I have to work around in every session. But today's session was made ten times as difficult (and no, you can't take 20 on Profession (Dungeon Master)) when the added background noise of a television was added.

I get the intention that my dungeons and dragons campaign looks much more impressive on paper. Something akin to buying Bioshock and then playing it on low graphics. I try to immerse the players in the world but they seem to dodge everything I'm throwing at them.

On a related note, I've been reading a lot of Order of the Stick which is fantastic. A perfect blend of humour and moving the story forwards.

As for the PC; I'm using a spare SATA hard drive at the moment (80GB, quite a step-down from 500GB) and so far there have been zero problems. I'll run with this for as long as two months or so of relatively consistent use before I decide that the old HDD was the problem.