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It doesn't make you "bad" at roleplay, but it does make you inexperienced at certain kinds of roleplaying. As a GM, if I'm lacking in one area, I try to improve it. For example, if I were really bad at descriptions, I'd work on consciously adding more descriptions into my game. If I wasn't...

Playing around with gender roles (and the resulting mechanics) in a game setting is fine, as long as you remember the number one goal of the game is to have fun. I could see having fun playing a ground-breaking woman in society, doing things that women had not previously done. I could see...

I got the same error message on IE, but it worked fine when I switched to Chrome. Do you have another browser you can try?

Woot! It would be my great honor to receive your vote this year to be an ENnie judge! Thanks for taking the time to vote for all of our excellent nominees, and more importantly, for all the great games! You can take a look at my profile here: Vivian Abraham | ENnie Awards and I'll be online...

Hello all! I'm seriously excited to be trying for a Judge position for the ENnies this year! I lurk more than I post, but I'll be around on the message boards, so feel free to ask any questions. I guess the only thing I think I didn't address in my profile is playtesting: I will definitely...

Today is Spirit Day. For those who don't know what this means, you can go here and check it out: GLAAD - Wear Purple on Oct. 20 for Spirit Day #SpiritDay Briefly, Spirit Day is a day where we reach out to support LGBT kids who are being bullied in schools and, in some tragic examples, driven...

Wow that was a quick spiral into ugliness. I know I'm a lurker, but I usually expect ENworld threads to be a bit more mature. Anyway, in the hopes of bringing things back on track: I am a female gamer, and I run Pathfinder. Whaddya wanna know?

Hah! That's the problem with advice, everyone has a different opinion! Well, you may be right on the pulp factor, I'd take a look at what Dungeon is publishing and see what their style is. I'm a professional editor, but the stuff I edit is considerably more academic :)

1) Spell check. chieftains, not chieftans. 2) Grammar check. Comma after "After seeing the new design aesthetic in MM3", and other grammatical mistakes. 3) Put in an introductory paragraph, don't just jump right into the description of your adventure. 4) Your adventure description is...

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it! I know that the version I posted is probably too powerful, but I wanted some ammunition, because my friend (for whom I was writing it) said it was underpowered :) Some good ideas above, thanks again!

I'm posting this for a friend of mine who is putting together a Pathfinder Eberron game. It's set at the university in Sharn and he wants to give some more flavor to the Universalist Wizard. I've seen several posts before on this subject: most of them involve granting more spells known and/or...

Girl gamer (woman gamer?) here. Still lurking :) Still running D&D, with three male players and two female players. And one male babysitter :) After having a kid, I find that I lack the time to defend my (and my gender's) enjoyment of my hobby to the internets.

We can come if it's actually in Boston, or within easy reach of Cambridge Hospital :) However, I'm due in August, so I'm not going to be doing too much traveling in late July! I have this vision ... "double experience points if you have to deliver the GMs baby!" When and where is it...

Hello all :) I have been mostly absent from gaming for the past year due to a horrible job (which I quit) and subsequent change of life-style (baby on the way!) I have _been_ gaming a bit, played around with the FATE rules some, did a bit of the World's Largest Dungeon.... But now that I am...

This problem can be solved by giving the players more options and improving monster design. This is also why I need to rewrite the whole system, not just change my campaign style and add some house rules. In the fourth edition that I envision, you wouldn't have a monster that was immune to...

Based on the way that published adventures tend to be written, I'd say that four encounters per session is the norm, and most of them involve combat. Examples (from memory, so apologies if I am incorrect): Sunless Citidel: 1) climb down rope, fight with monsters, 2) avoid trap, monster in...

You make some good points, here are my responses: 1) I don't want long periods of dullness, I want opportunities for roleplaying! Which is where the less combat oriented characters will get to shine. With four encounters per session, most of them combat oriented, this isn't the case. On the...

Cool! As long as it's not opposite Arisia, I'd love to come :) Send me an email when you have the date. Balsamic Dragon

I could try a different system instead of modifying D&D. I love the Earthdawn game world, and while I dislike the system it does do a lot of the things that I'm looking for. I'm not wild about GURPS, but I haven't checked out the new edition yet. I'm just wondering which would be harder to...

Hello all! I haven't been on these boards in some time, mostly due to law school and work and the bar exam and such. So hi to everyone! The other reason I haven't been around though is that yes, I've become burned out on third edition D&D. I loved it so very, very much for a long time. I...