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In a lair, it's easy. Traps. You keep throwing them at the player until he cries Uncle. Outside the lair, it's a combination of Numbers and Levels. Oh, you don't have to give them that many levels, just numbers. In the second session of my current campaign (only 5 sessions in), the Psion...

My advice is to design such encounters up front so that they are NOT "random" insomuch as you have to roll them up on the fly or that they come out of nowhere, but rather only seem 'random' from the point of view of the PCs. Whenever my PCs travel, I have a list of likely encounters already...

(Session 5) After Nieri and Kethra bind the unconscious Janx, Healer John heals Janx to consciousness. Janx’ initial attitude is defiance and silence. He refuses to answer questions and seems not to be very intimidated by the party. Efforts by Samsel and Nieri to question him meet with...

I like/love a lot of these moments. My favorite is probably the Vir bit where we get the payoff of that earlier setup and he's actually waving at Morden's head on a pike. But I also like the scene on Zahadum (or however that's spelled) when Sheridan finally realizes that his wife is dead and...

Given the Bard's slow spell progression and limited spell uses, either of these roles is a bad move for a Bard. At second level, you finally get ONE first level spell and you're going to waste it on a Cure Light Wounds? Only if you're really desperate. At fourth, you get your ONE second level...

As CGoat mentioned, Spikes was changed to 1 round/level. Seriously needed it. Improvisation went from a 5th level Bard spell to a 1st level Bard spell.

I tell them what they found, but never the "value". Such things are often variable, depending on where and how you sell them. This applies to artwork, items, jewelry and gems. I have three different monetary systems in use in the same area, so I always give them the number of each kind of...

I always design my encounters with a view toward what my party can handle, so I don't understand the whole "need to nerf" idea unless you're talking about the use of published adventures. In that case, you need to adjust your ideas of what the party is capable of based on your PCs. As others...

When I first changed over to v3.0, I bought a large (3'x4.5') white board that I used with older minis, at a scale of 10' per inch. Haven't used it since that last game, but I keep seriously thinking about going to it for my new game, using new minis and the 5' per inch scaling. Considering...

He apparently doesn't want to play that bad, though. Seriously, there is a point at which you have to say "You know, I've tried to get you interested in the games the rest of us want to play, but you keep finding excuses not to. I've done all that I can do. We will be playing without you. If...

Oh, I dunno. I played in a CoC game that ran for about a year or so after I joined, and it had been running for a while before that. I recall four distinct 'adventures', plus a couple of smaller side-plots or short stories. The trick is that you don't fight the bad things if you don't have...

I'd probably have ended the phone call with a "thanks but no thanks". Being argumentative (even "almost") because a new group that you haven't even met yet doesn't want to play your favorite settings is a huge red flag. I'm not big on off-races and LA adjustments, so the Celestial thing would...

Congrats. Punk. :p This is my life It's what I've chosen to do There are no free rides No one said it'd be easy The old man told me this my son i'm telling it to you CHORUS: Days turn to minutes And minutes to memories Life sweeps away the dreams That we have planned You are young and you...

The whole Warlock thing has been discussed in other threads. Yeah, they can do it all day. But they have extremely limited abilities, their blasts do not do all that much damage, and those in themselves can only be used once per round, whereas at higher levels, most people are going to be...

See, there's where I think you might be making a mistake. At the point where a new player announced that he was doing something like this, I'd stop the game COLD and we'd have a little discussion. If I got any sense that the player was intent on these kind of things, we'd put the game on hold...

Who's the Master? Sorry, I just had to.

Oh, it's not just while driving that bothers me. I've hiked up Harney Peak four times now. The first three times were off-season. The first two times, I was the only person up there. Last summer, I went at the end of June. There were a good 60 people up there. Ugh. So I go walking over to...

Congratulations! I look forward to hearing details come Saturday.

A great solution that only works if your friend is not one of those people who exist on very few hours of sleep. (Hint: Never go camping with those types!) But yeah, I've used the same solution on noisy schedule-challenged neighbors who think that the entire world should still be up partying...

Today at a convenience store while I'm working: Woman ahead of me trying to buy a bottle of milk. They ring it up. She digs out purse AFTER the clerk rings it up. Digs around. Doesn't have that much. Walks away to put it back and get something else, leaving me and clerk looking at each...