Recent content by lazarus1020

If any of you have seen the movie Heavy Metal you have heard of the Locnar, the green orb of evil. I created a artifact based around this which had the power to animate any dead creature in the vacinity with no maximum to the number of hit dice. I thought it would be interesting for the party...

My first experince with the Deck was not a very good experience. I was a dwarven Cleric/fighter of the god Tempus in forgotten realms. I decided to draw only one card and sure enough I got the eminity of an outsider. Can we guess who the outsider was. Needless to say my character spent the...

I have played with several female gamers and I must say that I actually prefer to have atleast one in my gaming group. I dated a girl once and she was already an avid gamer. She continued to play with us even after we broke up and only stopped after she was married.

I dont run an Eberron campaign but in my homebrew world Dwarves have harnessed the use of elementals to power underground trains. My party had invaded a abandoned mine being used as a hideout for bandits. The bandits had restored the disabled train and the party had an incredible battle on a...

That stinks man, I have been a DM for almost 10 years and I cannot remember a time when I just said no in a jerk manner. I have had a few times when I was forced to tell a party member no but I would always explain the reasoning. In circumstances such as that I would even let the player change...

I agree with robberbaron and would place myself in the "consider" DM group. I don't think sam500 got the point of my earlier post. I am not opposed to a player doing something off the wall. I had an Assassin character pour all of his poisons onto himself and then let a giant toad eat him. If...

I don't think telling a player no is a bad thing. If I ran my games by your rule the party would fall by the wayside to one dominant player. How can a player not try to take advantage of the game if there are no rules to keep his desires in check. Almost everybody has played with a person who...

I once played a mage/cleric and was required to find a master to be able to have easier access to spells. The campaign world was only inhabited by a handful of master wizards. In an unusual twist of fate I ended up being appenticed to a Silver Dragon. They are extremely powerful spellcasters...

I usually play campaigns for the most part, but sometimes I play one shot adventures were characters from previous campaigns get to come out of retirement for one more foray.

I was the DM for the group that has unfortunately come apart. When I play characters I tend to like playing rogue characters cause I love all the rank points they get. I have played pretty much every type of class except paladin. As a Dm my strengths would be depth of the world around the...

It has taken me a while to read through all of this but I have to admit in my 15 years of gaming experience I have had a few moments of gaming stupidity. 1) Very similar to some earlier posts. The party was traveling through a underground passage into a Giants castle. As they are going down...

Valandria Del'Viru is a drow priestess of considerable power in my campaign world and Zell MaeZarkin, who is very chaotic magic user who blasted a few powerful people in dust and managed to get the blame placed on the party's Sorcerer.

One way to get him more involved into the campaign would be to create a dwarven villian of unspeakable evil. This dwarf could be from the same clan and the character might feel obligated to go along with the party in an attempt to get at this evil kinsman. In my campaign world, Dwarves are a...

I have altered Draconic into three different forms. The lowest form is that spoken by kobolds, elves, etc. The middle version is more complicated version used in aracane magic. The last form is the true version of draconic and is spoken by dragons. A person who speaks the lowest form can...

My last campaign was based around a party of all evil characters working towards the goal of becoming the rulers of the world. It was a great idea and actually served to create a stronger sense of party loyalty than when they were good alighned. They killed all who stood in their way and even...