D&D in Tokyo

[DanniCake]

Anyone else play D&D or want to?
Was debating staring a small one shot campaign with kind of abbreviated 5e rules.
I've got an idea in my head and just wondering who here might be a nerd.

 

[Jackindabox]

Anyone else play D&D or want to?
Was debating staring a small one shot campaign with kind of abbreviated 5e rules.
I've got an idea in my head and just wondering who here might be a nerd.

I played back home but not here! Lol. That be awesome!

 

[Jackindabox]

There’s a meetup group that plays.

 

[MongerInAStrLnd]

I'm kind of interested in finding a group for European board games. I know there's groups for that but most of them are in the west, outside the 23 wards.

 

[MikeH]

in the west, outside the 23 wards.

Rumours are wild that there is human habitat there but none has returned to tell.

 

[Wwanderer]

Rumours are wild that there is human habitat there but none has returned to tell.

You can't believe everything you hear...

-Ww

 

[Wwanderer]

I thought D&D went out in the 1980s sometime...or was it 1990s. Is it coming back or never went away?

-Ww

 

[MikeH]

I thought D&D went out in the 1980s sometime...or was it 1990s. Is it coming back or never went away?

Don't believe the kids, I bet they have AD&D rules, not the original ones. Those went out in the early 80's I believe.

 

[Coda87]

I thought D&D went out in the 1980s sometime...or was it 1990s. Is it coming back or never went away?

-Ww

Its still around, i think its in a 5th/6th version now. But the pencil/paper version definitely (along with board gaming) became less popular with the rise of computer gaming. But recently boardgaming is making a comeback (like vinyl records) .
I still have all my 1st gen. AD&D Hardcover manuals and a crapload of adventure modules. I wish I lived in Tokyo. I’d love to play in Danicake’s group D&D group.

 

[RoboReptar]

I thought D&D went out in the 1980s sometime...or was it 1990s. Is it coming back or never went away?

-Ww

D&D is making a resurgence at least where I’m at. People my age are loving analogue board games or anything that don require a screen. Maybe technology burnout?

 

[Hofmeyer]

Roll & Role Station in Akihabara has a boardgame night every Friday from 6 or 7. Pay like 300yen to use their rental space as opposed to 2000yen that it normally is. You can bring your own too. They have an "Adventurers Club" too during the week, I'm not sure if you have to bring your own group or they just let people DM for pickup games.

I also walked past a handwritten sign stuck on some random building about a boardgame club close to the largest of the three family marts in Akiba. Not sure what it is about.

 

[DanniCake]

I thought D&D went out in the 1980s sometime...or was it 1990s. Is it coming back or never went away?

-Ww

In the nerd circles it never really went out but the books have changed. Now there's classic D&D but most people play with the most recent book (5th edition) or there are similar D&D like games such as Warhammer, Pathfinder, and even a Star Wars Universe version.

 

[DanniCake]

Its still around, i think its in a 5th/6th version now. But the pencil/paper version definitely (along with board gaming) became less popular with the rise of computer gaming. But recently boardgaming is making a comeback (like vinyl records) .
I still have all my 1st gen. AD&D Hardcover manuals and a crapload of adventure modules. I wish I lived in Tokyo. I’d love to play in Danicake’s group D&D group.

OH MAN IF YOU HAD ALL THOSE BOOKS I'd LOVE to borrow them from you and make an old school campaign from the first edition. If you ever come visit and want to lend them to me I'm sure I could scrap something together after a few hours of reading.

 

[Coda87]

OH MAN IF YOU HAD ALL THOSE BOOKS I'd LOVE to borrow them from you and make an old school campaign from the first edition. If you ever come visit and want to lend them to me I'm sure I could scrap something together after a few hours of reading.

Cool, Ill let you know.

 

[MikeH]

I still have all my 1st gen. AD&D Hardcover manuals and a crapload of adventure modules.

I believe I have both the 1st edition AD&D books by The Man Himself, Gary Gygax as well as the 2nd edition player's and DM's books. I mean it's completely logical to save those 40 year old books even if they haven't been opened in 35 years, right?

 

[Coda87]

...I mean it's completely logical to save those 40 year old books even if they haven't been opened in 35 years, right?

They have so much nostalga for me. I can bear to get rid of them.
Module Q1 , one of my favorites.

 

[MikeH]

They have so much nostalga for me. I can bear to get rid of them.

I am worried if I dump then the next day one of the guys calls me and asks for them. I have just about half a dozen books, the rest is distributed through the group so they might need mine too.

 

[DanniCake]

I believe I have both the 1st edition AD&D books by The Man Himself, Gary Gygax as well as the 2nd edition player's and DM's books. I mean it's completely logical to save those 40 year old books even if they haven't been opened in 35 years, right?

ABSOLUTELY!!
But I mean if you're questioning continued ownership well I could help you by taking all those off your hands

 

[User#8628]

I believe I have both the 1st edition AD&D books by The Man Himself, Gary Gygax as well as the 2nd edition player's and DM's books. I mean it's completely logical to save those 40 year old books even if they haven't been opened in 35 years, right?

Sure they’ll be worth a lot late

 

[BIPSY]

I'd give my left nut to play a CoC campaign but even if anyone was running one there's a 0% chance I'd be able to actually fit it in the schedule.

 

[Mrmer]

Lmao. Oh man remembering my youth. All my stuff has been long gone. I just came back from Copenhagen. They had this huge nerd store of all the board and dice games. Was glorious! Think I spent more time there than the museums

 

[just4fun]

I know there's a group that plays in the Mitaka area and from all over the world. If I was into it, that would be the kind of culture experience I'd be seeking.

 

[DanniCake]

Well I'm thinking of a story.

"When the day's were long and the nights deep...
A tale everyone knows of the Summer King, chosen at the spring festival this lucky lad rules over the land, served the finest from every crop, waited on by the most beautiful in the land, he holds his title until the coldest day of the darkest night comes, at which time he goes to join his Queen so that Spring may come.
A new King is chosen, and the cycle repeats.
The darkest night has fallen over the land and it is unknown why the cold has not broken. Dark clouds cover the sun, the winter only becomes worse as supplies begin to dwindle and panic sets in through the land.
Whomever joins this adventure must find out what happened to the King, and why Spring has not come before the world, and everyone in it, freezes to death."

 

[Wwanderer]

Well I'm thinking of a story.

"When the day's were long and the nights deep...

This wizard foresees the need for a new TAG forum!

-Ww

 

[AMcguyver]

This wizard foresees the need for a new TAG forum!

-Ww

I agree. How about it @DanniCake ? Wanna DM TAGs first online AD&D session?