What's New?
What IS Advanced Dungeons and Dragons?
Dice Codes and Dice Bots
Links to Official Places
Links to NetBooks, etc
Links to other places

Introduction: So, What's New?

My last AD&D page while giving links to the main people who make the game, TSR and WOTC, and some other sites of my friend's pages, did not really have a good center for finding interesting things of AD&D on the web. This page has been updated so that you can find a lot of information directly, and indirectly in some cases, from this page. If you have come across this page before, you will notice that the background and a few pictures have changed as well. I hope these pictures heighten the effect of the page as well as the new background music I added. Other than that there has not been much added to this page, but I hope you enjoy it just as well as you did before.

What Is Advanced Dungeons and Dragons?

I realize there are many sites for AD&D out there, but I haven't really come across any with a good description of what AD&D really is. I will admit, however, once you learn the game it is hard to describe what it is like and why it is fun to someone else, it's a feeling that takes time to develop and it helps to have the right people playing with you. So here is my best explanation of AD&D that I can give all of you first time players out there, or those just interested in the game:

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons is a roleplaying adventure game, and it can be just about any of your favorites from Final Fantasy to Zelda, Breath of Fire and more. The only difference is YOU are the character, someone has not developed the character for you. The character is the most important tool in the Pen and Paper RPG. Looking at a bunch of numbers and cool skills does not define WHO your character really is, only what you do, say, and create (as a background) will define your character. With that in mind, let me explain what I mean:

Everyone can be a Druid with the Stats: STR: 13, DEX: 15, CON: 14, INT: 14, WIS: 16, CHA: 16, with several woodland proficiencies and stats. There are few who could be: Darrion the Half-Elven Druid taken from his home at an early age by bandits who left him in the woods for dead, who was taken in by some druids and was taught how to survive and the ways of the druid. The same man who now at the age of 20, seeks to find his long lost parents and destroy the evil brigidane leader he knows only as Mordiane. Hopefully, anyone can tell the differance between those two descriptions of a character. It is the process of developing this background, and playing a character (thinking, feeling, doing what your character does) as opposed to just playing your own personality that makes the game fun for everyone.

Dice Bots and Dice Codes:

For those of you who look to play AD&D over the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) you may think that there are easy ways to cheat and that it wouldn't be fun since everyone could lie about what they rolled. This was true, from what I understand, a couple of years ago when IRC first started, but it is not true anymore. mIRC (a program used to get on the IRC) along with other programs, have allowed the develpoing of "bots". Bots are simply programs that have a name on a chat line they may perform programs when certian key words are written.

Most major IRC hosts, Undernet, Efnet, DalNet, etc. have two dice bots called widg and noppa. They will perform any dice rolling necessary during a game, all that is required is to type the roll in as what you say. For example: You need to roll a savings throw, all you need to type in the text box is 1d20 and the bots will spit out a number which will be your roll. Although this is a crude example, it is the best I can do currently. There has been, although I don't know why, an argument over which dice bot is better, widg or noppa.

Personally, I find widg better for the advanced players since it has some time saving options, and for the newbies because it still features noppa's simple die rolling codes. Noppa, however, seems to last longer on the IRC though. On the average widg will unexpectedly quit IRC for repairs, updates, we don't know more often than noppa does. Noppa has a feature widg doesn't. This is the definitions that some of us all know and love, during a game this can be very annoying beacuse if something is written in parenthesis, (), and it is on noppa, noppa will spit out the definition it has stored on that word, or phrase.

Links to Official AD&D Sites and AD&D's producers.

TSR: Original Makers of AD&D Wizards of the Coast

Links To NetBooks, Etc.

Links Description of Netbooks
The Great Net Book Archive Every NetBook out there is here.
Official AD&D Book of Sex The AD&D Book of Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
The AD&D FTP Site NetBooks, Programs, Ideas and More!

If you want me to add any sites to this list, then please E-mail me at the link provided at the bottom of this page.

Other Pages I Feel Somewhat Obligated To Link To:

The Paths of Fate (My Cousin's RPG Page)
RamboDragon's RPG Page

More will follow as I find out where their addresses are again.