Worst RPG party ever

[DanJ]

Just started a new D&D campaign, first in about 30 years, using 5th Edition.

It's actually great fun but like most games depends a huge amount on the quality of the DM and the other players. 

I've always thought that in many ways D&D is possibly the ultimate skirmish game, one player, one character.

Incidentally Gandalf is only about 4th level as he can't cast fireball and all that coming back from the dead malarchy is just a dodgy bit of DM-ing.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Having survived some of your campaigns Dan, I look forwards to hearing more! 

[Ithoriel]

Played White Box D&D (replacing our Roneo'd copies of the original three book version) at Uni but moved over to SPI's Dragonquest in 1980 and despite the occasional foray into Hero System and GURPS and the occasional "oh gods, now I remember why we gave this up" game of D&D have stayed with Dragonquest and home-grown variants ever since.

I use Columbia Game's HARN setting as my background but the Harnquest rule-set was a little too hardcore for my taste. Even if the players beat those half dozen orcs ... sorry, gargun ... half the party would be dead a week later having succumbed to infection or disease. Possibly realistic but not fun.

Some day I must get back to regular FRP sessions.

[Last Hussar]

Legolas on the shelf by Last Hussar, on Flickr