Recent content by Carpe DM

I do not subscribe, but that is only because APs have more awesome content than my group can consume. I've ended up running straight or re-skinned versions of four APs (Savage Tide, Crimson Throne, Runelords, and Second Darkness) and am playing in a fifth (Legacy of Fire). I buy the books on...

Hmm! And where might I find this Living Vault?

Wow, those are some excellent resources. Thank you!

Ok, folks -- the well of inspiration runneth dry. The sitch: My players, at around 22d level (it's a straight-up, no-holds barred, all-sourcebooks 3.5 game), need 144,000 soul coins from a vault maintained by a Knights Templar analogue. Here are the PCs. (Warning, link not particularly safe...

I'm struck that this problem occurs in every game, and everyone has a solution, but no solution is particularly good. This means either that (1) D&D players are not creative and inventive (which hypothesis I reject out of hand); or (2) that this is not a problem that can be solved with any one...

Several people have hinted at what I think is a good distinction. This is not about right and wrong at all. The DM has (and must have) the power to interpret and alter the rules. But the rules give the DM his legitimacy. Altering them much or often undermines that legitimacy. No-one comes...

Hmm -- perhaps I'm lacking in imagination, but I checked out gametable online, and can't find any app that even looks like D&D. Carpe

An anti-edition-wars edition wars thread. That is some zen stuff. Carpe

I agree. My thoughts on an evil campaign here.

Yoink!! More to the point, I would not play with anyone with whom anything would not go. This doesn't mean anything goes. It means I know very well, trust, and am close friends with the people I game with. It's about people, not hard-and-fast rules. This doesn't mean that at some point...

The characters, the world, the mat, the beer, and the pretzels, all are there for the sake of the story and of having a good time with friends. cheers, Carpe

Trust, but verify.

Interesting. I find it hard, but not impossible, to challenge my players consistently, given that any one of them can easily top 200 damage a round. I find several tools useful in maintaining versimilitude while not taking away their hard-earned powers. First, there are many immediate...

Good D&D mechanics are suggestive and cinematic. Simulating alignment is hard because real morality is complicated. Just as simulating a sword fight is the last thing the D&D rules want to do, so simulating morality is not a good storytelling experience for the adventure genre. There are, of...

Title says it all! thanks for your thoughts. Carpe