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So...yeah. I DM'd my group's campaign for a year and took the creative world building from the game table and into a novel. My only regret - writing has taken up all of my free time. Haven't had the chance to play a game in close to six months. I used to visit EN World two, three times a day...

In the game I'm running - the party will be hitting a rather larger city in the next few sessions. They'll be getting there at the time of a festival of the war god - and in my campaign, when there are festivals for gods, the temple holds competitions for the populace. In the past, I've run...

I started a community world-building project a couple of weeks ago (blog details on that at Help Build A D&D World while the wiki holding all of the world information is at Tangia - A D&D World Wiki). Once we got going on some of the basic world details (countries, regions, climates, high level...

I freely admit that I posted this in the Places & Plots forum, but as the traffic there is much, much lighter, I decided to chance it and post the opening post here (with modifications) My play group and I have had discussions in the past about growing our own world from scratch. Something that...

My play group and I have had discussions in the past about growing our own world from scratch. Something that we all contribute to an we all use as a setting for our adventures. When one of us picks up the mantle of DM, we would have a world to work with where we are writing the history...

My play group and I have had discussions in the past about growing our own world from scratch. Something that we all contribute to an we all use as a setting for our adventures. When one of us picks up the mantle of DM, we would have a world to work with where we are writing the history...

When I put together parcels, I always like to mix it up when it comes to the non-item treasure. The DMG gives some rough guidelines for art objects, gems, and other stuff to include besides just gold, but that takes some time up that I’d rather spend on the details of the campaign. So, I...

In my campaign, the characters all just got horses. During preparation for the next session, I realized that some of the monsters have condition effects from burst or area attacks. Since burst and area attacks would be made against the character and his/her mount separately, this could result...

So, I have a question about characters on mounts. When a medium character is on a large mount, what space is the character in? I thought I read somewhere that the character can choose. But wouldn't that cause issues? I ask primarily for how to handle malee attacks. If a monster is on the...

I checked the DMG and can't find anything about this. When a trap or hazard is revealed to the party, what is the proper way to reveal possible countermeasures? Read them (without DCs of course)? Let people try things blindly? Or give them a rough idea of things they might be able to try?

I've poked around, looking for a place where this is addressed, and I can't find it (which might mean I'm just looking in the wrong place). But how do you handle drowning? Or what's a good way to handle it? I'm putting together a trap/hazard inspired by the Muck Tentacles, and the 'goal' of...

I was inspired reading a couple of traps in dmg and dmg2. Has anyone ever run an encounter made up of only traps? Perhaps like a gauntlet type event?

I put together little application that allows you to copy monsters you want to use for a campaign into a single library and use that to build encounters targeted for party size/level. It also gives a visual representation of the difficulty of the encounter you made compared to all party...

I'm working on building an encounter builder. It allows you to right-click a monster in the WOTC Monster Builder, copy as Rich Text, and then paste it into your library. Then you can pick monsters, add them to an encounter and get an idea of the difficulty level of it for level/party size in a...

I'm running a campaign right now set in a custom world inspired by a series of books by a popular fantasy author. We started at level 8, and the party just hit paragon at the last session. Our play group has seen some losses and additions during that time, but I'd bet the group we have now...

While putting together campaign details for a campaign I'm starting this week, I came up with system for generating random weather based on climate zone and season. Once I did that, I realized I could put it in an app, similar to the NPC Generator I put together and posted about a week ago. It...

I'm looking for player feedback on a few rules I'm including in a campaign I'll be starting to run within the week. I've already delivered these rules to the players in the campaign, but I'd like to get community feedback on these before we start. If there are any good points or fair...

Hi all. Attached to this post is a NPC personality and background generator I put together. I'm putting together a campaign that's starting in a week, and the last thing I had on my plate was bringing some of locations to life with some NPCs. I looked around for a while for NPC generators...

Okay, I'm a little confused on Skill Challenge mechanics and could use some guidance. I've put together a skill challenge for a campaign that I'm going to be running, but some of the mechanics of skill challenges confuse me as to how to let it play out. Skill Challenges in DMG1 are bland and...

Got a question for the community. There's something I'm going to be doing for a campaign I'm preparing in a custom world, but there's two different ways to approach it. And since I'm preparing all of the material for the world, I'd like to figure out which way players would prefer this thing...