Recent content by Rugsrat

As a DM that has only ever really dealt with large groups (7+), I can safely say that I wouldn't know what to do with a smaller game at this point. My biggest party was 11 people... that was actually really fun. Some things I do: Rotating the spotlight is a must. If you can't let players...

I'll toss my name into the metaphorical hat. I'd love to get one of the "dump stat" shirts... just not sure which stat I'm currently dumping... Heh, probably Dex.

I'm interested in the Hero System lot. Which shipping box would you be using for them? Sad to see that so much good stuff has to go, but I can understand space being an issue.

I mentioned this idea in another thread, but one of the things I did to build immersion was to have all my players help me fill in my world map. I started out with a normal 8.5"x11" sheet of white paper. It had a mountain range and my starting city on it. By the time they were done, it was...

Definitely interested as well, details please?

1. Since 2008. Though I do wish I had started sooner. 2. Started with the Marvel Universe RPG, and that campaign actually hasn't ended yet, despite us having 3 more campaigns in the same universe start and end around it. That one's been incredibly start/stop... Branched into 4e D&D. Then new...

For my current 4e campaign, with MUCH hacking of flavor for certain races. These guys are actually former PCs from a different campaign that took place EONS before this one (in game time). Yes, we had at one time, 10 PCs. It was a big game. Ris: God of the Sun. The most worshipped by the...

Travel is just not a big part of my adventures, mostly because there's a LOT of it. Rather than spend weeks detailing what happens, or doing random encounters (which I loath and refuse to do) it almost always ends like this: "The rest of the journey passes without incident." If there's a plot...

I will not be part of a campaign with rape in it. I've GMed a superhero game where one of my PCs performed a live autopsy on a man to get information out of him, then sold his organs and gave the funds to a cause the victim hated as a final insult. That actually gave me nightmares. But rape...

If the PCs don't care about the events around them, they may go and solve the problems they're presented with, but they're not going to really get why. In my game, I first made them really care about the world by having them do most of my world-building. I handed them an 8.5x11" piece of a...

I think the personal favorite in my group is the joint battle-cry: "Butter!" Which stems from our first 4e warlord shouting "boo-rah!" And all of us mis-hearing. It really doesn't matter what game we play now, whenever we charge, we shout "Butter!" And: "I'm almost bloodied" has become...

I think it probably would have been well served to have a question at the end ith something along the lines of: "Are there any other games that you play that are not D&D/Pathfinder?" With just an open reply field, because personally, I usually end up actually playing in games that are not. My...

I've pretty much given up on planning anything concrete for my sessions. The only things I have are my NPC's names and motivations, and then I drop the players in and say "go." I think this is because the first session of the first game I've ever run was supposed to be a super cheesy Superhero...

I think my biggest theft... er... homage was when I lifted a few ideas from the Sword of Truth series: 1. The Grace 2. Darken Rahl (by name) 3. The People's Palace of D'Hara 4. The Devotion. Of course, I re-flavored some of that. There was no Westland or Midlands, instead D'Hara was on an...