100 Great Things About Dungeons and Dragons

To celebrate out 100th post, the team at Dungeon’s Master has put together a list of 100 great things about D&D. Enjoy.

1. Finding a secret passage
2. Ale is a dietary staple
3. Minions
4. Dragons
5. Watching the DM get frustrated after rolling another 1
6. Not always being the good guy
7. Deck of many things
8. Drawing maps
9. Stumping the DM
10. A 10 x 10 room with a chest
11. The brutal property
12. Developing a character over months and years so that they almost seem real
13. Kobolds
14. Divine intervention
15. Blue lightning (DM intervention)
16. No need to tip at an inn or a bar
17. Discovering that not all lawyers work in the courtroom
18. The dice
19. A night away from the wife and kids
20. 20-20-hit = instant death
21. Mariliths
22. Being there when a party member dies and the player rips up the character sheet into 1,000,000 pieces
23. Being in the car of the player who ripped up his character sheet and fearing for your life in the back seat as he swerves through traffic at 70 miles per hour
24. Toilets and bowel movements don’t seem to exist
25. Realizing that most of our gaming sessions have more intricate and sophisticated plot lines than the majority of Hollywood movies
26. House rules
27. Residuum – Is not a drug
28. Making character back-stories
29. Having those back-stories actually affect the campaign
30. Secretly playing an evil character and planning the demise of the rest of the party
31. Taking “trophies” from monster kills
32. Skill challenges
33. Doing the opposite of what the DM expects
34. Playing a Pirate campaign, Arrgghhh!
35. Being able to name every PC you’ve ever played, but forgetting the names of your co-workers and closest friends
36. Scoring a crit
37. A shameless excuse to eat junk food with your buddies
38. Knowing that the D&D movies pale in comparison to the cartoon
39. The excitement of new editions and rules.
40. Knowing that not all dragons breathe fire
41. Kicking down the door and killing the orc that is guarding the treasure chest deep in the dungeon even though there is no logical reason for either the orc or the treasure chest to be there
42. The RPGbloggers network
43. Tiamat
44. Being able to seduce men when playing a male character
45. Being able to seduce men when playing a female character
46. Being able to seduce women when playing a female character
47. Being able to seduce anyone when your Charisma’s that low
48. Vorpal weapons
49. Minis
50. Count Strahd von Zarovich
51. Getting together with friends whom understand your geek interests
52. Drunken Dwarves
53. A natural 1
54. A natural 20
55. Playing like your character actually would
56. Did we mention kobolds?
57. Stealing from other party members
58. Retiring a favourite character and coming up with their epilogue
59. Kill-stealing
60. Slaying a dragon
61. Slaying a dragon by yourself
62. Looting a dragon’s horde
63. Dwarf/Elf animosity
64. Drizzt Do’Urden
65. Asking if you’re drunk yet
66. Developing the mathematical equation to determine if you’re drunk yet
67. Rolling percentile on the equation above to see if you’re drunk yet
68. The character builder
69. Moral and ethical decisions within RPGs
70. The excitement just before starting a session after waiting all week
71. Eberron
72. Munchkinism
73. Introducing your children to D&D despite your wife’s best efforts
74. Pillaging
75. Blogging about the game
76. Creating weird creatures as player characters
77. Interacting with NPC with the above character and not having them react differently at all
78. Attacking the darkness
79. GenCon
80. Sneak dice
81. Killing a monster with one blow
82. Watching our wives eyes roll as we talk about D&D at the dinner table
83. Order of the Stick
84. Stereotypes, you know what I mean Paladins
85. Watching another player roll several 1s
86. Monster’s have feelings too
87. The smell of new rule books
88. Splitting the party to annoy the DM
89. Killing the PCs for splitting the party
90. Min-Maxing
91. Talking about past characters as if they were real
92. Rolling more than one handful of dice (20d6 anyone?)
93. Bag of holding, because who really tracks encumbrance?
94. Watching the player playing a paladin try to figure out how to do something selfish and stay in character
95. Being there when the party accomplishes a major milestone
96. The power to raise the dead
97. Minotaurs
98. Dungeon Magazine & Dragon Magazine
99. Having something in common with other gamers worldwide
100. This, the 100th blog post at Dungeon’s Master

And there you have it. When we hit our 200th post we’ll compile another 100 great things about D&D. Until then, please feel free to leave any additions to the list in the comments below.