The Dungeon Masters' Foundation

Nightcloak · Jan 4, 2005

Bard has great advice for balancing high lever casters.

The specific approach he mentions that I use in my game is to let the bad guys be smart. When the PCs get close, they are not going to let up on them so they can rest and come back powered up to end their carrier. I also make sure that the players are treated differently when in "enemy terrain"; whether that is a dungeon or the wild. They become the intruders and "monsters" treat them as such. If the PCs don't stay alert 24/7, then they're in trouble. This goes doubly so for spell casters, if they blow their spells all at once, and don't get a chance to rest for days to get new spells, then they're life just got real interesting. Spell Casters need to learn to rely on the "meat shields" and use their spells wisely.

Blade of Desecration · Jan 4, 2005

Xen155 said:
Hail to the Foundation Of Dungeon Masters!

IM BAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!

And its good to see so many of the DMFs freinds made the switch to, from all that i've seen, A better Forum.
This place has grown insanely fast and Im not sure who all is here so give me awhile and i'll be back up to full speed.

Good to be back.

Xen the Great has returned! All rejoice!

Xen155 · Jan 4, 2005

Xen is back du du du back again du du du Xen is back du du du worship him....

@Evoker- Are you gonna run the DMFAC or should I get back to work on it?

@BoD- Good to see ya CotDS (If that is who you are :uhoh:

) from what I have seen it looks like most of my followers..... I mean members have made the switch, good...good.

ChaosEvoker · Jan 4, 2005

*Points dramatically (almost anime-like :uhoh:

) at Xen*
FOOL! THIS IS MY FOUNDATION!!!! Great to see you back Tren...I mean...Xen. Heh heh.

@Resting topic
Yeah I started doing that recently rolling a percent chance for random encounters and such when PC's rest. This not only makes them have to prepare, but it makes clerics worth something. (Otherwise its just kind of like: "Low oh HP? Rest!" instead of "Low on HP? CLERIC!")

Oh yes...and since I just got some time:

NEW MEMBER:

Stone Angel

Welcome to the DMF! Everyone say hello!

ChaosEvoker · Jan 4, 2005

Btw, I'd liek to try to get an old project that fell through due to WotC Boards' rules...(*sigh*)

I'd like to announce the beggining (or re-beggining for you old-schoolers) of a DMF Project:

The Dungeon Masters' Foundation's Campaign!

In this, we would start with me DMing a game with 4-6 of our members as the PC's. After a while, or whenever it seems appropriate, switch and let someone else, who wants to, DM. Also when we switched DMs we woudl have new PC's (to give as many people a chance to play as possible)

This is an idea in its basics, so give me some feedback on what you think of this.

Xen155 · Jan 4, 2005

Ha ha ha. thats a good one... Who wants to DM.

I support the idea, give me 2 weeks and i can have a fare capaign.

ChaosEvoker · Jan 4, 2005

Read the above post and I quote: (oh the puns)

Chaos Evoker said:
we would start with me DMing

I would start DMing we coudl switch later.

Blade of Desecration · Jan 4, 2005

Yeah, I liked the idea of a campaign. We kinda got shot down on that one before though. I'd be willing to DM for a time. I think that the main purpose of this campaign is to gauge everyones DMing styles, so that we can give them tips on how to improve. We can have someone DM so that they can correct any problems their style might bring. I think part of the problem before is that we were going about it the wrong way. That and not enough people wanted to do it. If so few people want to do this this time around, we could have this as a little sub-thread for members who/want need the experience.

@Xen: Yeah, I'm CotDS. Decided to get a different name though. Got a whole bunch of different ones to go. (Hey, I just rhymed!

)

Dyne · Jan 4, 2005

I might want to take part in such a campaign. But, before, we were gonna start at level 15. I would prefer that we started lower level, max level 5, to have a chance to develop our characters and everything.

Instead of restarting to introduce new people to the game, I don't see why they couldn't just be added to an ongoing campaign. I'm not very fond of starting a game and then restarting not long afterward.

Blade of Desecration · Jan 4, 2005

Dyne said:
I might want to take part in such a campaign. But, before, we were gonna start at level 15. I would prefer that we started lower level, max level 5, to have a chance to develop our characters and everything.

Instead of restarting to introduce new people to the game, I don't see why they couldn't just be added to an ongoing campaign. I'm not very fond of starting a game and then restarting not long afterward.

I thought we never really started in the first place back at WotC?
Anyways, I agree, we shoulg start out at lower levels. I like character developement.
If enough people decide to join (doubt it, not many people did last time), we can always have more than one campaign.
I do really think this is a good oportunity for DMing experience. My local D&D group just started doing one of these in FR.

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