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I found this thread a little late, so I didn't read all of the replies. If this has been covered, please forgive. If you allow the door to be burned, you have to deal with the burned door. Yes, you get the noise and light, and a whole lot of smoke in an enclosed area. Especially if the doors...

While it may be a little more work, and a bit more linear than you're looking for, I did a conversion of Sunless Citadel for my group that went over great with my players. As it stands it's a bit low for 5th level, but I really like the dungeon's layout and the different factions. As long as...

I love the new books. I find the PHB especially well laid out. The organization of the information in it actually makes sense to me, and it's easy to find what I want. I haven't seen that in a rule book in.... I can't recall ever! For use from a DM perspective, being able to get what I need...

I'd like to thank everyone for all the ideas. I narrowed it down to do main thoughts, both hinging on opening a portal to the Shadowfell. 1 - The bad guy is trying to gain certain Shade benefits (stolen heavily from the 4E Heroes of Shadow book). 2 - He is trying to pause/halt the moon...

We're playing D&D 5th Ed. I've got all of my players together now, so there isn't a need to keep them in the city, but that doesn't mean there's a hurry to leave it. The gem merchant was setting the time table. All the ideas and advice so far has been great, thank you all! Keep the good...

I like both the gateway idea and the idea that they are trying to bring darkness to the area. Is there any kind of monster that could do something like that they could summon, or perhaps a ritual. (If this were Call of Cthulhu, my path would be set.)

I had it that he had been captured by the cult while trying to get his merchandise back. (The merchant's cousin, a weaponsmith, had contact with him shortly after the robbery took place).

I need help coming up with ideas for an evil Cult of Shadows, the leader of which is known to be Drow. Here's the sitch, After running through a conversion of Sunless Citadel, my party (human cleric, dragonborn pally, and drow rogue) was hired to escort and guard a gem merchant caravan from his...

I've found M&M to break at lower levels. The hubbs ran a one-off superhero game with Savage Worlds last week at our FLGS, and it went over great. The system worked nicely for the powers, and everyone had a great time.

One thing I found extremely helpful was to make "monster cards" for use with encounters. Before I started my 3.5 campaign I typed up many of my favorite monsters' stats, including terrain type and reference page number, so they would fit on a 3x5" index card then printed them off. I put them...

I like the stone dwarf idea, I think I may just have to "borrow" that. My dwarves are generally modeled after Vikings; most stay at home and keep the kingdom running, the rest go out in trading or raiding parties. And I get to use a Norwegian accent for them, which is a lot of fun. In my...

Free, relatively quick and easy: Dungeon Tile Mapper -- v1.2.0 Dungeon Tile Mapper It's web browser based, and uses all the D&D Dungeon Tile sets, and includes a couple (not very good) sample maps.

If you have a basic knowlege of geography, the rest isn't too difficult. If not, there are a few good sites, like About.com and of course wikipedia. I'd highly advise doing a little research into what makes landforms tick. What I've done for my setting is taken my blank paper, and drawn some...

My 8 year old daughter played an elven ranger in KotS, and did a pretty good job. When she was 5, I don't think she would have handled it so well. We started her out much like your son, on the side with her own dice. We had to keep the minis out of her reach or she'd play with them all, which...

Stormbringer, the old Chaosium percentile version. Followed by Call of Cthulhu. Played the heck outta VtM all through the 90s, even ran a LARP in Eau Claire, WI for a while. But it always comes back to D&D.

For a humorous view on adding in a girl to a gaming group, watch The Gamers: Dorkness Rising, by Dead Gentlemen Productions. (Trailer at The Gamers: Dorkness Rising) You'll bust a gut!

Another problem I've encountered is when one of the couple is the DM. Any time something "good" happens to their SO's character (gets a special magic item, miraculously survives an encounter that should kill them, etc.), the other players can view it as favoritism. Did the DM fudge a die roll...

When I first started gaming (back in the dawn of time in 1983), it was my SO that brought me into the group. I was the only female. None of the other players seemed to be bothered by my presence, but for a while I was just "Kevin's girlfriend." As I got used to the rules and wasn't so much of a...

My husband made up an Xcell spreadsheet page for powers, which contains blocks that look virtually identical to the official cards. It's conveniently color coded and typed out neatly. It is convenient to update with new powers, and best of all, it's all on one sheet, so I dont have to worry...

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