D&D 4e

Happy New Year!!

I've mentioned before that Dungeons & Dragons was the main RPG that I played as a kid. When I started playing, it was with the very first version of D&D. In those days, when creating your character, you could choose from Fighter, Cleric, Thief, Mage, Dwarf or Elf (in those days, dwarves and elves were a character class in themselves).

It didn't take long before a new iteration of D&D came out which was called Advanced D&D and which tightened up the rules a bit (and also allowing players to choose their race as well as class separately). After various iterations, the fourth edition of D&D was released in June 2008 (almost said "this year" there!).

In order to promote the new D&D 4e, Wizards of the Coast got together with the people behind two of my favourite webcomics - Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade and Scott Kurtz of PvP. Tycho was a regular D&D player, Scott had played D&D many years ago (kinda like myself) and Gabe had never played before in his life. They recorded the session and made the recording available as a downloadable podcast here (you will need to scroll down and find Penny Arcade/PvP Podcast Episode 1). The character sheets were also uploaded to the Penny Arcade site here.

The recording is really long (they had to split it out over 8 podcasts!). However, if you have any interest into what goes on during a typical D&D session, the podcasts give you a very good indication of how much fun playing an RPG can be.