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Jez's Story When Tane and I finally reach Dargham’s Folly, the sun is going down. The first thing I notice as we walk through the gates is Zana catching sight of us, and the look that appears on her face. I can almost read her thoughts – only two of us. We exchange no greetings, just walk...

I think a tweaker is actually a good term for it. I know that I spent a long time messing around with my rogue's skill-set and items until she was really, really good at the things she was supposed to be really, really good at (once you're creating characters at 11th level, you need to have them...

That might be an idea. I'm certainly offering XP awards for interesting backstories, and I think I'll say that 1,000XP would be my maximum award - enough to have two levels, for those who want to go for an arcane trickster concept, as one potential player has suggested. Then I can say that the...

:lol: Probably! Clerics would work really nicely - especially since I'm going to use the Greek pantheon for the campaign - lots of bickering potential there! Equally, all followers of a single deity (or bound to a single church) would make a nice campaign theme, possibly highlighting the...

Hey, Silas! I'm from the UK - London in fact, so not far from you at all! I have to say that ENWorld and conventions have been my best ways of tracking down local players. (I joined my first gaming group through walking up to somebody at Dragonmeet and getting invited to their game in about 5...

Yeah - I thought about gestalting the campaign: rogue-wizard, rogue-monk (ouch), rogue-cleric, rogue-fighter... :) Do let me know if you run that, Nifft! It sounds like enormous fun! :D

Thanks, d4 - I'll have a look! Yes, it's going to be a (sort-of) thieves' guild campaign. The campaign's going to start with the PCs under the thumb of a mafioso style boss who has some kind of hold over all of them. They'll be doing his dirty work and hopefully slowly uncovering the truth...

Ow! STOP that!

Thanks, EK. I'm actually thinking of branching out a little now: clerics of trickery, pilfering wizards and thuggish fighters are all going to be welcome (no paladins though)! My usual policy is to include feats that are in books I don't have on an individual basis. Driddle: I've never heard of...

Oooooooooooooooh. Altalazar, I love that idea! I wonder how it'd work? It'd have to be a really high magic (or high mysticism) world: perhaps you're linked up via ley lines and touchstones that link into power-spots in the earth - very druidic. That's got all kinds of possibilities!

I have some other systems (notably GURPS) but all the games I'm in at the moment are d20 of some breed or other. I've dabbled in other systems, but only for short-run campaigns.

Well, I have gaming friends, who mostly, I just game with. I have non-gaming friends, that I don't game with. ('Cause, they don't game.) I have gaming friends that I don't game with because of scheduling problems. And I have friends that I game with, go clubbing with, and generally hang out with...

Exactly! I have a high level rogue at the moment. She's a tough, self-reliant old ex-army scout and archer. That backstory wouldn't mean very much if she wasn't any good at scouting or archery. My DM was also nice to me - allowed me to ditch Sleight of Hand as a class skill for Survival, which...

Hm. If somebody asks me what I'm doing on game night, I'll say I'm gaming, and I'll give an explanation of what it's about if asked. I don't necessarily shout about it, but simply due to me having to rave about campaign events occasionally (it happens!) even my non-gaming friends know about my...

Thanks, Crothian. Couple of questions: Did you enforce it on the players, or did they individually each choose to play a rogue? What was the campaign backstory that required them all to be rogues?

I'm on the fence when it comes to this issue really. On the one hand, I don't find it fun to min-max all the numbers and sacrifice an interesting character for it. (I've done things like spend limited starting money on a house and wedding ring instead of magic gear, because it's what the...

I haven't run it, but I had a read of the first two adventures with the intention of trying to run them. They seemed extremely lethal to me - unless the players manage to "clear the dungeon" in the first adventure and squeeze every available bit of XP out of it, I honestly can't see how they'd...

I'm thinking of running a game (probably a PbP) in which all the PCs start out as a single class. I'm thinking rogues, because it's a flexible class that allows for a lot of differences between characters. Has anybody had any experiences running - or playing in - a game like this? Did it work...

For the few and sparse games I've run: First, I like decent backgrounds, and (assuming I'm not running a solo game) some idea of how the PCs might know each other or at least be in each other's circle of acquaintances. Everybody doesn't need to know everybody, but everybody needs to know...

Okay. Last session was kinda short, and mostly involved introducing a couple of NPCs - Anila and Rashi - and Alex doing some fruitless research at his local library. Next session, he's headed to a larger library to do some more involved research. He's looking for information on three basic...