Me and 3 of my friends have invented our own version of D&D with much laxer rules. Your pretty much able to create whatever kind of dungeons, monsters and characters you like, and their difficulty/power is almost completely based on the honor system.

Recently, one of those 3 friends tried to get us to play real D&D. After digging through the manuals, I was actually quite disappointing at the options, as I always thought you could be pretty much anything (I had a Doppelganger Wizard made for me, but based n his monster stats, he'd be 1st level up until everyone else was like 5th.) Real D&D had less freedom then I imagined.

Anyways, in our version's limited rule sets, we get a lot of creative dungeons and characters.

Some of our characters include:
-An African American afro'd cyclops who calls upon the "Black Power" as his strength
-A refrigerator with the personality of a teenage girl
-A psychic lizard who can control minds
-A robotic swordsman with a Montgolfier balloon for a head
-A giant parrot mage

Some of our dungeons:
-Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory after closing and 10 years of decay
-Santa's Death Village
-Zombie K-Mart
-A mechanical castle in which all the rooms had to be moved to solve

We use regular 6-sided die, which we creatively use since we don't use die with large numbers. This includes things like rolling two die with roll x roll as damage, Rolling one die until a 1 is rolled adding damage = to the number of rolls it took and rolling with the number required to keep rolling increasing each successful roll.

So, generally, I was wondering if anyone has done anything like this before, or usually just choose to either stick to official rules or just not play at all.

Dr. Jeebus wrote:

Hexen, please tell me you're 13 or younger.

Well, yesterday my Pikachu action figure finally defeated the combined efforts of Starscream and The Noid with the help of a Bugs Bunny shampoo bottle... so, I'm obviously 22.