Recent content by Schmoe

I've borrowed from a whole bunch of different sources, but I don't think I've used more than one thing from any one source, where "one thing" could be an entire dungeon level, for example. I've found old Paizo-era Dungeon magazines to be enormously inspiring and useful.

That's very nice and considerate to see about finding a replacement for when you don't run, but it's also not your responsibility.

Take a break. Seriously. Ask yourself why you're so afraid the groups would break up. Take care of yourself first. If the players truly value the games, they'll understand and come back when you're ready. If they don't, then it wasn't worth it to begin with.

I have two games: Game #1: I'm a player. In-person at the DM's home. 5e. Meets every 4 weeks for 3-4 hours. Game #2: I'm DM. In-person at rotating homes. 3.5e. Meets every 2-4 weeks for 4-5 hours.

I have both played Forest Oracle with my group back in the 80's and posted in this thread. I feel... immortal old.

I played TMNT and had a blast. I think maybe there were technically humans in that game (it was a long time ago), but it was a fringe option if it existed.

I think this is a really good option, tbh. My system of choice is 3.5. I've thought about switching to PF1 multiple times, but they made a number of changes I'm not really happy about and at high levels it gets really, really heavy. So I've gradually just imported some of the changes that I...

Oh yeah! Thanks for that. I totally got the two confused. Sorry. All my comments were in reference to I11.

I own it, but never ran it. This is the one where you can go to the moon, right? My recollection is that the moon part was one of the potentially more interesting bits, but also the least fleshed out. I think the bulk of the adventure is around navigating a maze with some tricks/traps. It...

Agreed, the Rappan Athuk maps are almost uniformly terrible. I've checked out multiple editions (at least 3e, 5e) and the quality is consistently bad across them, so I think the issue is core to the product, not the edition.

I'm not sure if it counts as a Megadungeon, but I give high marks to the Tomb of Abysthor for 3.5e. It has several factions, and an interesting local region. The temple of Orcus within served as the centerpiece of my current campaign, including one near-TPK and multiple aborted assaults. They...

Sidequests are just wasted time or: Nobody cares about Jiminy Cricket?

I literally just wrote up a scenario like this for my game last week. They had to convince an NPC of something, and if they did certain things related to the NPC's background it would give them certain benefits. For example, appealing to the NPC's good nature would grant a +2 to the roll, and...

I apologize if this has already been stated elsewhere, but after 8 pages of discussing "What is a plot?" and "Should this be a + thread or can we criticize JA?", I skipped ahead :D But what I want to add is that I have absolutely loved The Alexandrian and gotten a ton of excellent ideas from...

To be fair, I actually think it can be disrespectful, depending on the expectations that should have been laid out in session 0. While I haven't ever played in such a game, some people do feel very strongly that they expect their characters to have a meaningful story arc that won't be cut short...