10 Awesome List: Dungeons and Dragons

If you have never played pen-and-paper Dungeons and Dragons, click here while the rest of us read the post. I caught this list of 10 awesome things about Dungeons and Dragons on the blogoblogosphereoblog:

1. Rolling a Natural Twenty when the fight is on the line
2. Leveling up
3. 0 hit points, unconscious, possibly dead
4. The 10' pole
5. The druid spell Shillelagh
6. Being a 1st level Halfling mage with 1 hit point and a dart
7. Drinking ale in the tavern
8. The planar asymmetric synergy of polyhedrons and lead figures
9. Scimitars
10. Treasure Type Q, the best Treasure Type

Which is an impressive list, to be sure. However, mine would have to be something like this:

1. Vorpal Weapons
2. Chaotic Alignments
3. First Edition Monster Manual, giggity
4. Green Dragons + Sodium-tipped arrows
5. The Keep on the Borderlands
6. Expedition to the Barrier Peaks
7. 18/00 STR
8. Hitting Level 9 as a Fighter, becoming a Lord and getting a Keep
9. Being C/E and taking the Borderlands Keep as your own
10. Fireballs

What's your list?

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1. 25 Charisma
2. Deities & Demigods - Divine Ascension rules
3. The Machine of Lum the Mad
4. 36th Level Master Set
5. Anti-Paladin NPCs from Dragon magazine
6. Ninja NPCs from Dragon magazine
7. "Elf" and "Dwarf" as character classes
8. Unearthed Arcana Type VI character generation
9. 1st Edition Cavalier-Paladins
10. Rings of Wishes

1. Awarding the loot whore of the group a rubber glove with a 1% chance to find a magic item "inside" creatures.
2. Creating a paladin modeled after The Tick.
3. When in doubt, put them in an arena against NPC versions of themselves.
4. "He can't be an elf; he doesn't come up to my knee!"
5. Spottle.
6. Finding ways to channel my Cyberpunk character in random game sessions.
7. Saving baby kobolds from evil paladins.
8. Using a shrink potion and speaking like a chipmunk for its duration.
9. Monty haul GMs.
10. Dragon turtles and their steam attack.

D&D sux

1. Evasion and reflex saving out of fireballs
2. Half orc wizards
3. Keen Kukri or any weapon with 18-20 threat range
4. Tarrasque
5. Delayed Blast Fireball
6. "I pick up the item" GM - "Make a reflex save"
7. Sentient weapons
8. Seeing the entire party running from a Rust Monster
9. Elemental Plane of Fire
10. Magic Missle

I can only think of 5.

1. Dual wielding "blender" moves
2. Pyromaniac fire mages
3. A bag of holding full of mules
4. "But there's plenty of armor with chain mail and silk"
5. Whiteboards with buffs and debuffs so that everyone can keep up

Wow how did I forget Bag of Holding inside a Bag of Holding

1. White Plume Mountain.
2. 48 hour marathon adventures.
3. Elves may live in trees, but they don't make cookies.
4. Getting through roughly 50 game sessions before the party realizes your thief is actually an assassin hired to kill the party leader.
5. Having your Mom play a session "I want to see what you kids are doing in this game." and discovering that she is chaotic evil. "Couldn't we just kill the mayor and take the gold without having to go through the dungeon."
6. Remembering the days when you could buy D&D at Toys R Us.
7. THAC0
8. Setting caltrops outside your brothers room using 4 sided dice.
9. You know how to play D&D.. then you know how to play every other p&p rpg... damn d20.
10. Releasing a Saturday morning cartoon based on a game that the same week had stories on the news which stated in contributed to devil worship and suicide.

11. Tom Hanks losing his mind in "Mazes and Monsters".
12. The first 10 minutes of E.T.

bloodyleach:
11. Tom Hanks losing his mind in "Mazes and Monsters".

Haha, thank you for reminding me of that. That movie was horrible. It's campy and could have been written by Jack Chick. Here's a pretty good review site.

1. Count Strahd von Zarovich
2. Oriental Adventures
3. Writing my own dungeons, one of which took an entire year.
4. All the Doritos, Mountain Dew, and pizza we could eat.
5. The 'idiot roll'; taking a d20 the size of a golf ball and chunking it at the forehead of a fellow player who just screwed up.
6. Gully dwarves
7. Finding and joining with a group of players during the Gulf War.
8. "When in doubt, go left." Except for Tomb of Horrors.
9. Creating my elf Sylynt Andedli, a character I've played in MMORPGs and RPGs since then.
10. Opening that red box in March of 1980.