Recent content by Yami no Hon

I'll second the vote for IKEA. I'm in possession of a couple of bookcases (their Billy model, which are basically white boxes with shelves in) that are 19 years old. They have survived five moves, one of which was transatlantic, and despite my best attempts to overload them, I have yet to have...

I'm a female DM. I've been playing D&D for something like five years now and DM for the last three. A female friend of my has been the storyteller for a PBP White Wolf game for about a year, and one of my roomates is prepairing to make her first attempt at DMing this semester.

Bad news guys, my work schedual has changed. Instead of having Saturday off like I was promised, I have to go to a meeting from 8:45-10, and then come back to work from 2:30-9:30. This means that I will not be able to participate in either game. Sorry guys. -_- There are some days when I...

"Someone's using a cadaver to hide a drinking problem." - Gus, the Rogue about a guy who had been dead for months had somehow been ordering and paying for drinks in the tavern "Hey guys, I think that guy's dead. Wanna' take his stuff?" -Gus, the Rogue "She thinks its the nifftiest thing since...

Thanks for the pdf. I'll give it a read over in the next day or two here. If I end up running something in the second time slot, it will be one of two things (reader's choice): 1.) A group of time traveling Victorian gentlemen of fortune have gone to the last days of the Roman Republic in...

I'll be there! I've already aranged to have the day off from work. I'd like to play in Bento's 1500s game, if you don't mind showing me the ropes. I've been playing D&D for 5 years, but not True D20. If there is a mad rush of people comming to sign up for games between now and the 21st, I...

1.) Great Cleave -- nothing is more fun than wading through an entire barbarian horde in 6 seconds 2.) Improved Initiative -- except maybe slaughtering all your foes before they even have a chance to move 3.) Leadership -- if you want to attack the party, you have to go through our gullible...

They sell poster board with 1" squares marked on it. I usually find it at Wal-Mart, Traget, and any office supply store for less than a dollar a sheet. Grab a sharpie and go over the lines to make sure they're visible, then set it under a piece of plexiglass and you're good to go. If you...

I shall ask then. I'll also point the other gamers from the school in this direction.

Might you be thinking of the one that was held at the University of Dallas, two years ago this Spring? (Or three years ago, depending on how you count?) I'm interested in DMing, probably 3.5 D&D. If the rest of you are interested in teaching me what's what, I'd be open to playing in something...

I've been getting a lot of use out of Cityscape lately. The chapter with Stat Blocks for mooks of various levels (and a nice selection of Big Bads ready to drop into a campaign) alone is worth the price of addmission. Also, it has a nice selection of maps, although I think most of them are...

I'm a girl gamer. It started like this: my brother saw this computer game called Baulder's Gate at afriends house, and bought the game. We both liked the game, so when he was at the bookstore and saw the nice shiny new 3.0 PHB, he bought it. We looked through the book, familiarized outselfs...

2nd content update - the trip out to the ruins 5.3.10.1894 The party set out along the Old Road early in the morning. Old might certainly have been true, the word “road” was a definite misnomer. It was little more than a series of wooden markers sticking up out of the snow. After half a day...

2nd contend update - plot hooks Lethe is a small town dressed in a big town’s clothing. In the summer, all the rich people from the cities of the planes, that is the Styx mostly, come up to the ancient capital to escape the heat. In the winter however, they return to their towers and palaces...

Something I've used to great effect is limiting the space in which encounters occur. If they can surround their enemies compleatly, or if they have some advantageous terrain feature such as a door through which they know the enemies must come* they tend to kick buts all around. If they have...