Recent content by Shadow64

Sounds interesting - do either of you maintain a PC in the game while dm'ing, or is it really a tag team thing that one handles combat for a game and the other handles the NPC / non-combat stuff, and neither of you play?

Thanks everyone for the continued advice! I'm saving it all up to unleash on my group to get everything running smoothly. My wife says this all sounds like a part time job - I keep telling her that it's only a part time job to get the machine started and running, after that it should get a lot...

Nope - just the setting and the supporting books to give me the playground. All the adventures I have laid out right now are all my own. Not that I hate modules - but in all the games i've played in the modules , or the dm, have just sucked - so it hasn't been the best experience. Given...

For now we are playing Eberron. That leaves a lot of the load of my shoulders for world creation, but at the same time - I don't have the time to read and absorb everything in the books, but I have a few people in the group who know the setting very well.

Thanks for all the advice - I'll have to run a great deal of it past the group before it gets a carved in stone ruling. My last question would be - treasure. (huh - ended with a period - guess that is a statement). Sounds like the two people who have run larger groups (Savage and Maddman) for...

Egads - two groups at once? Sweet mama-jamma I barely have time to do one adventure a week! (and yes, so far i'm trying to do a weekly game - thankfully because of the large group it means that i can get two or three sessions for something i thought might take a session or session and a half)...

I recently took up the DM Helm recently in order to jump start a gaming group (everyone wanted to play, no one really, really wanted to DM), and it grew rapidly through word of mouth and johnny-come-latelys to be a whopping 9 member group (including me)!! Thanfully, for all of us being...

I agree completely - d20 combat is slow. I will definantly check out Savage Worlds, thanks!

I hadn't thought about Grim Tales - I do have the book, love it actually, just hadn't thought about it! Will have to check it out again (once i can find it...). And i'm not limited to using just those rules - i'm looking for anything d20 based that would do high action, cinematic fun. I...

It's been a while since i've run or played anything, but my group is shy of a DM so i am going to give it a shot. Now, i'm hoping to run a high action comic-bookish type of game that starts normal and then takes a turn towards the strange (magic, super science, mutants, etc). I was thinking...

Hey Breakstone - i'm looking for a group in Santa Cruz too! Moved here last year and haven't been able to find a group yet. I'm looking more to be a player then GM, a bit busy right now to run anythng, but i'd be interested in talking to you to see what we can get going! drop me a line...

Hope somone out there sees this! I just moved to Santa Cruz and I am looking for a group to join. I do have to do some traveling in the next few weeks, but maybe at the least i could pop in for a session to get a feel for a group. I'm interested in pretty much anything d20-related (vanilla...

See Races of the Wild, the Elven Courtblade is a d10 / 18-20x2 weapon that can be finessed. Granted, it takes two feats to use it right, but what combat-based rogue wouldn't take two or three fighter levels to be able to finesse a d10 weapon AND add their dex damage (if a dex to damage feat...

So I noticed here that DriveThru and GoO are offering a PDF of the Game of Thrones Deluxe edition for $99.99. I don't know if this has been covered before...but holy mother of....who would buy such a thing?

In the latest version of All Flesh Must Be Eaten there are conversion rules for taking AFMBE zomibes to D20 zombies, as well as converting characters back and forth and, IIRC, some tips on running a Zombie game in D20. The conversion stuff works pretty well, I haven't got to try it in game but...