1. By Benjamin T. Cecchetto
Dungeons and Dragons

2. Alias Stratius the Rogue and Stratius the Fighter
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3. Alias Vinny Tercutti the Italian Mafioso
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4. Alias Captain Jim Runner the Flying Pirate Puke Monger
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5. Alias Zyme the Blue Wannabe God
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6. Alias Van Von Morgensteen the Eccentric Rock and Roll Annoyance
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7. Alias Benjamin T. Cecchetto – Benjamin T
Alias Benjamin T. Cecchetto – Benjamin T. Cecchetto's in-game alter ego who knows how to use swords and weapons very efficiently and salt the lands so they'll never grow again... kind of a jackass, but not unlike the original
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8. Alias And Many Others...
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9. What is Dungeons and Dragons?
Also called: DnD, D&D, AD&D, AdnD, etc...
Tabletop Roleplaying Game
Uses the power of your brain to render!

10. What do you need to play? Friends Players Handbook
Dice (4 to 20 sided)
Pencil and Paper

11. Well how do I learn to play?
Option 1) Read the manual, invite friends and moderate/figure it out together
Option 2) Join an existing group and try to figure it out
Option 3) Play a nerfed 'gateway' game

12. Well how do I learn to play?
Right now... Flow of the game for n people is as follows:
Have n-1 players playing characters and 1 player being the Dungeon Master (Moderator/DM)
Players tell DM what they want their characters to do, DM moderates. Actions could be ANYTHING, even stuff not in the manual so the DM has to improvise
Initiative rolls dictate order (on a 20 sided dice) DM PC PC PC PC PC PC

13. Well how do I learn to play?
You enter a dark and musty
computer lab, a grad student
Emerges! They look vicious
And are foaming at the mouth!
You've smoten him
With your umbrella
And poke a hole in
Their arm! It bleeds!
He eats it and is subdued
And quietly returns to the
shadows...
Well how do I learn to play?
I think we're looking at
This the wrong way.
I give him some
food!
Roll to hit.
Yes. Roll damage
Everyone roll initiative!
Right now... Flow of the game for n people is as follows:
Have n-1 players playing characters and 1 player being the Dungeon Master (Moderator/DM)
Players tell DM what they want their characters to do, DM moderates. Actions could be ANYTHING, even stuff not in the manual so the DM has to improvise
Initiative rolls dictate order (on a 20 sided dice) 12 18 4 2
I attack with my trusty
umbrella!
Does an 18 hit?
7 damage! 13 6 5 3 19 1
Rolls d8
Rolls d20

14. What makes a character?
You see the basic classes in most RPGs now, but the basic four are:
Fighter – attacks precisely
Barbarian – attacks fiercely
Wizard – attacks magically
Rogue – attacks sneakily/from afar

15. What if you want to play a pacifist?
That's fine too, there's enough skills in the game to use you can do this.
Can pretty much tailor any character you can think of.
Hard for the DM to make a scenario to keep every player happy though but the ideal setting is where you can accomplish a quest by any means that you're good at.

16. What limitations are there to stuff you can do?
Nothing. There's nothing your character can't try to do.
Up to the DM to moderate and make it fun for everyone
It's like a choose your own adventure book with infinite options

17. Some restrictions make the game more fun
Roleplaying Playing the role of your character, whatever that may be. Hardest thing is being consistent with morals, values, etc, etc... Like acting sort of.
Restrictions on weapons/races/times Vampire: The Masquerade, Call of Cthulhu, Iron Heroes, D20 Modern, D20 Future are other games like DnD following the same rule systems in different times with different varieties of weapons and conflicts

18. Some expansion on roleplaying can make the game... interesting...
Live Action Roleplaying (LARP)
Downsides: Frighteningly Nerdy
Upside:

19. What's this have to do with Satan?
A bunch of kids got killed in the 70's and happened to play DnD and there was demon looking pictures in the monster manual
Ignorance
Same old puritans “Now I have never gotten "into" the game, (and I thank my lord and savior for that) I have been around people who have and from what I have researched and have seen its is my conclusion the game teaches witchcraft, demonology, voodoo, necromancy and satanism. There are many more but lets look at just these five and other meanings in their definitions. Those of you who are playing D&D are angry right now and are looking for the mail link to give me a tongue lashing. Before you do I ask, as some ask me to do, just listen for a moment. What we must do is identify certain definitions and then see if in fact this game is contrary to the word of God. “

20. Who started this anyway?
Gary Gygax ( ) and Dave Arneson( ), and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc (TSR)
Expanded from a miniatures game Chainmail
Now that's a man I can
Look up to! The Father
Of modern roleplaying
games!

21. Doesn't seem too geeky... What gives?
I blame marketing:

22. Conclusion Easy to learn
Get to see and share other peoples' imaginations
Not really a 'game' but just fun adventures with your friends (in any setting)
Makes for a very dangerous drinking game

23. Questions? Stay a while and listen... Thousands
Of years ago, when I was a wee lad I
Was attacked by wild boar. They took me
To their leader and eventually taped me
To a wall with duct tape. It was then that
I realized one couldn't spell 'vegetables'
Without “Vegeta” so I offered
Them over 9000 VEGETAbles and
They accepted... from then on, the
Boars and I were...