Dungeons and Dragons vs. Fight Club

[ebbomega]

So, who here remembers playing D&D or some reasonable facsimile (I'm personally a fan of Shadowrun) back in High School?

So who here is into martial arts/sparring?

One of the funnest things I like doing in Duncan with my island-hippie friends is going out to a farm field just out of town where they have "Dagger Deep", a fort near a forest. Inside the forest is a small pub where they keep a bunch of bottles of wine and the guild treasury (involving small gold and silver pieces, a shitload of booze and a bunch of weed). In the fort they have a whole ton of hockey, field hockey and general sparring equipment, as well as a series of padded sticks and kendo swords.

The game is a simple DM-guided game of Dungeons & Dragons-like design. There are different classes you can pick from, certain classes allow you to use certain weapons and spells. Instead of rolling dice though you fight the opponents literally. You get like 3 hit points... so if they deliver three strikes to your person you go down. Usually what chants make what spells should be up to the person who wants to use the spell, but basically you just cast a spell by chanting (I wanted to make Dune's Litany Against Fear +1hp) and basically if you can complete the chant without being interrupted (hit or forced to defend yourself, basically) then the spell is cast.

Fun as hell because it lets you not only revive that D&D creativity but also let out some aggression, get a good workout and heck, improve your fighting skills (which honestly aren't a stupid thing to improve). Anybody else get into this kind of stuff? I know groups like SCA like doing big melee battle royales... though I can honestly say I've only ever met 1 SCA person (ex-SCA at that) that wasn't a complete pud... but this does seem like a fun thing to do when getting the boys together on a sunny sunday afternoon.

silliness,
dave "it can't be that geeky if it involves getting drunk, stoned and kicking the shit out of each other, can it?" leckie

[cubed]

I'm still saying you should have cast magic missile on the darkness.

[Sykonee]

Um.... I did all that in the backwood of Rupert, just not with the D&D context.

I knew some folks who did though...

[tiedye]

sounds like a good time man. is this open to outsiders?

[crackdragon]

LARP!

[tiedye]

is it wrong that I think that's a great shirt?