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Fake, no. What is fake in a game where everything is made up? Since 3E has endorced the concept of monster advancment, I like to think of it as visionary ;) Any way, I didn't do it on the fly. My point was making changes to 3 or 4 things was easier then the detail it goes into now where you...

That still takes time to look up. I used to keep the 5 key stats for any monster in my head. So, I didn't even need to open the book or refer to my notes during the game. If I'm writing a whole module, it does take hours to write out the NPC's and Monsters. In the old book, you'd just kind...

There were thousands of ways to crack a good mage. Antimagic stuff, creatures that could see invisible and had high magic resistance, Clerics of all types could attack them. High level creatures had high level abilities that countered the mage. I think I only ran two or three high level mages...

Things I miss in no particular order 1) 1E DMG. The random layout, the lack of an index, the feeling that if you looked long enough Gygax would have added a random table that would help you find the meaning of life. The book required a PHD in gaming to find anything, but it felt...tome like...

Fairness policy to house rules I use the following rules for introducing house rules to the game. 1) I always bring it up before the session. That way it never gets sprung on the party by surprise. If they have qualms, they can bring them up then. If they are legit qualms, I can change the...

I don't know which version of 2E you were playing, but our mages were never omnipotent. As the GM, I smacked them around pretty good most of the time. I'm not saying clerics aren't powerfull, I'm saying they are all the same, and that wasn't true in 2E. We adventured for a while with a...

Well, we actually killed all the racial restrictions in character creation as well. So, we had more then one dwarven mage and elven paladin in the party. The horror.

Spell Casters were better. I think in general Spell Casters where better in 2E vs 3E. The spell selection for 2E was much wider, so mages and priests had a much wider variation in 2E. The priest spheres in 2E had more interesting stuff then the spheres in 3E. Things like Numbers, Law...

Genes get named in several different ways. 1) Often the gene is named after the gentic mutation it is associated with. For example if a wing causes a fly to have curly wings then its called crl The reasoning is that this makes the gene name more memorable. 2) Genes are named something cool...

I ususally have the party know eachother before the adventure begins. Typically I bring all the players together before they roll up characters and give them a quick overview of the game world. While they are rolling up characters I have them introduce themselves to eachother. I narate...

Players that tell other players how to play their characters. You know what I mean. "A elf would never be friends with a dwarf, that's just stupid" or "The priests is the healer, so get over here and heal me" or "That's not really how a chaotic good charter would act" In general this person...

Ask them. When I was first GMing, I would often struggle to get the players into the adventure. It seemed that they would turn and run from the hook like they owed it money. What ended up working for me was to force the players into thinking about it during character creation. While they...

roleaids The role aids modules by Mayfair games.

The evil nasty BOX TEXT that prevents the player characters from taking any action to prevent what is written in the BOX TEXT from occuring. The GM's favorite NPCs solving the adventure just to show up the player characters. This often happens when the player characters don't take the GM's...

I've seen this happen to gaming groups, and I understand your frustration. In one group that I played in, the GM made the fighter the central player of the group, much to the detriment of the other players in the group. (The group consisted of the figher, a ranger, a mage, a priest, and a...

Let them take down a score 1) The goodies of the world have something of value and the badies must steal it. Think of the adventure like a heist movie. There will be law enforcement to try and stop them. 2) Good temples make good dungeons if you know what I mean. 3) The bad guys are outlaws...

I honesty don't know what I can say that hasn't already been said. I can tell you that things will change if you give it time. No matter how dark things seem now, no matter how overwhelming and hopeless things seem, there are reasons to go on. You just might not know about them yet. Making...

Use the Industrial revolution as a guide Look to the themes of the industrial revolution as a guide for your world. Increases in magic might effect a world the same way rapid increases in tech changed the world. 1) Increased communication brings civilzations that would normally not interact...

Churches have many different functions In the D&D world we tend to think of priests and temples as being isolated entities. IE. One temple stands on its own, or perhaps a series of temples in different towns all worship the same god. However, religions often have a variety of functions and...

From experience, I predict you'll have a more cenematic description of the game, but a less cinematic and brave game. Players will overestimate the damage that has been done to them and will react by withdrawing, casting even more healing and generally taking far less risks. In the end, the...