University Daily Kansan, November 6, 1980
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Dragons
The dungeon master invents the dungeon in its detail, and he exercises complete control over it.
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The players didn't look as if a roving monster would bother them. A bloodthirsty lot had been created.
"Wanna kill some monsters?" one player asked.
"Yeah!" the rest responded.
They listened at several doors of the dungeon. Sounded as though Orcs might be behind it. The door swung open.
"You want Orcs or you want smuffling?" the caller asked.
"Let's go for the Orcs! Nuke the Orcs!" one player said.
What they met instead was a troop of attackers wearing black and silver uniforms. One of the magic users cast a sleep spell over the troop.
"Well, let's just slit their throats and go on," one player said. "Come on guys."
Battle hustle is a common phase of playing the game, Duncan said.
"I wanna kill. I don't care about the treasure, let me go find something to kill," he was how Jesse did.
Apathy about a character's fate is also a phase, Duncan said, as is death wish, where a character will attack any in his path, no matter how powerful.
ASHLOCK, WHO IS also a dungeon master,
said some people played the game to pick
the optimum course—get the treasure with the least
loss of life.
Others enjoy the interaction of the characters in the game, he said.
Once a character who was basically chaotic stood up and shouted "Oh green Dragon!" to him.
Another time, he said, the same character jumped into a rooftop of Orca, lied at them and stabbed one of their heads.
"The thing killed about five of them," he said.
"He wasn't punched."
attract its attention to the party's hiding place, Ashlok said.
"I thought, hmm, Orcs aren't smart, they'll do it." Anhock said.
He rolled the dice to make sure, and they did. The rest of the party was waiting outside the door, ready to play.
Appleton said she thought the best part of the game was living out the character, not slitting it.
"When the Orcs went in the corridor, the characters all screamed and chopped." Ashlock
"You have to work past the hack-and-slash stage," she said.
If a character has an intelligence level of that, he said, he should do stupid and damn the other.
"he probably won't lain out the game, but
his way he should be played," Appleton
said.
Once one of her characters agreed to group sex, she said, because it was part of her perseverance.
"A group of bandits propositioned her and she accepted," Appleton said. "She didn't find the ring."
BILL UNDERWOOD, Overland Park senior,
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It's not that he doesn't like the fantasy role play games, he said, but that he thinks there are things he can do to get better.
"It seems we meet that Dungeons and Dragons are in combat," he said. "But it seems actually in both these maps."
He said the combat was artificial because it was always a fight to the death, and no one ever knew.
Underwound spent a year and a half coming up with his own fantasy game, "Beasts, Men and Gods," which he says will have realistic combat and more magic than D&D.
He doesn't expect to make money, he said, but he wants to come up with a good version of the menu.
Dungeons and Dragons inspires devotion. It is
not like Monopoly. Concentration on characters and plotting next week's trip through the world is a key skill.
"In my opinion, DD is more adductive by far than cigarettes. Underwood said, "And I can buy them."
He said he had seen dungeon masters tear up their dungeons in front of witnesses and swear never to play again, but a week later, they'd be back.
"Some people can't pull themselves away from fantasy role play long enough to do their best."
He said he once played continuously for 56 hours, and a typical game can last from 7 in the morning to 10 in the evening.
"It can disrupt studying a little," Ashlock said. People also have accused it of having a demonic influence because it lets people play evil characters.
"People take out of it what they bring into it," Ashock said. "The game isn't dangerous, the game is."
"The game is whatever the dungeon master and the players make it. It's definitely less than that."
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