Ludo, in particular, is delightfully spiteful: the German incarnation ” mensch ärgere dich nicht (“Don’t get angry”) is a rather more useful name than the English.
Ludo is also known as Frustration, isn’t it?
Andrew Shaughnessy
3 years ago
“You must understand how to construct a world solely through words…” The most rewarding D&D session I’ve ever played came after we’d rescued 20-odd orphans from a rakshasa (a fiend resembling a humanoid tiger). We spent the entire session setting up an orphanage in a beached ship where the kids got a home and an education, learning shipboard skills and discipline. By the end we felt like we’d set up a real orphanage, and we did it all without a single die roll, just imagination and teamwork.
Of course, watching our sorceress fireball the opposition is fun, too!
Paul Rogers
3 years ago
Great article. Grew up playing AD&D. The unspoken need for rules and cooperation was intrinsically natural. Have to confess that I find computer games pretty good now. Baldur’s Gate 3 is coming soon and it’s closely based on AD&D rules. It’s as complex, but for the times when you don’t have the luxury of finding people.
It’s unsurprising that so many geeks cited here spend time in such pursuits (I’m a private sector tech guy who now works with Whitehall and the profiles fit). Our man shed just happens not to have muddy tools in it.
Tomas Kanas
3 years ago
Well done for resisting a gag about “The D&D Party.”
Ludo is also known as Frustration, isn’t it?
“You must understand how to construct a world solely through words…” The most rewarding D&D session I’ve ever played came after we’d rescued 20-odd orphans from a rakshasa (a fiend resembling a humanoid tiger). We spent the entire session setting up an orphanage in a beached ship where the kids got a home and an education, learning shipboard skills and discipline. By the end we felt like we’d set up a real orphanage, and we did it all without a single die roll, just imagination and teamwork.
Of course, watching our sorceress fireball the opposition is fun, too!
Great article. Grew up playing AD&D. The unspoken need for rules and cooperation was intrinsically natural.
Have to confess that I find computer games pretty good now. Baldur’s Gate 3 is coming soon and it’s closely based on AD&D rules. It’s as complex, but for the times when you don’t have the luxury of finding people.
It’s unsurprising that so many geeks cited here spend time in such pursuits (I’m a private sector tech guy who now works with Whitehall and the profiles fit). Our man shed just happens not to have muddy tools in it.
Well done for resisting a gag about “The D&D Party.”