Recent content by Sotomonte

if you want to make things easier and faster, you should go with something like the d&d minis skirmish rules, which are a lot more simple than rpg rules. i am going for this since combats with my group ended up to be long and boring. i think it could speed things up a lot if you don't need to...

Thank you for your answers, it helps to know how others are doing their GMing... for this group particularly... they know very little about D&D, so the map was very useful to put the game in a good direction.

I was thinking of using something like this for my battles. THe idea I had was that when a creature has about 1/4 or maybe 1/8 of HP, you can try to cut off a limb when you roll a critical hit. Then you would need to roll another attack to know if you were sucessful in your cutting. Also...

Well,uh.. I was talking more about... if the players are in a town, do you need to show them every house, shop, alley, etc. in a map.. or you just tell them they are in a town ..?

But.. my question was not how do you make a battlemap.

Hello all. I've been lurking for a while and now I want to ask you something. I ran my first D&D 3.5 adventure with 3 players recently. I used a map of a city, forest and stuff that I draw on a battlemat. Not very good drawing as I did it the same moment we were going to play. Previously, I...