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Last time we played D&D I played a wizard, and I just typed up a spell list in Excel. One worksheet per spell level, all formatted the same way (landscape, narrow margins, all columns fit onto one page). I had columns for name, saving throw type (if any), range, duration, area, components...

Sit him down and say this: "The FR novels are junk. No, seriously, they're really bad. As a campaign setting, it's lots of fun, but the novels they've written about it are utter abominations, and the authors should be imprisoned for their crimes against readers everywhere. For your own...

First of all, I couldn't resist the pun. Also, the herpes family of viruses is really interesting. -- and most importantly, the username i usually pick was already taken ;)

The first step is making sure that the rest of your gaming group is interested in having this kid play with them. If anyone isn't too hot on the idea, you should probably shelve it. The second step is, once you've decided you'd like to have him join you, to invite his parents along for a...

I seem to remember that there were feats which would add an extra spell known (of one level lower than the highest level spell you could cast); perhaps another option would be to price the item like other items which grant feats, like the ring of evasion. Set the caster level to something...

Same here. In our group, anyone who played a caster would never multiclass. They might jump ship to a PrC that offered full spell progression at some point, but that was it. We had a few players who just didn't multiclass their characters at all, mostly because they wanted to get to certain...

For maximum whiplash, I voted: Useful, Quirky, Dominant, Larger Than Life, Lifelike, and Other. Useful, because I'm still bitter about a series of games back in high school where my character was just along for the ride and had nothing useful to do. And at the same time I'm happy when my...

Well, let's see; we'll start with ignoring that Diplomacy roll, since this is purely a Bluff on the PC's part. I'd say that at the very least, this is a bluff which is "hard to believe," worth at least a +10 for a Sense Motive modifier. It's possible that if the NPC is well aware that there's...

You might take a look at Mutants and Masterminds, though I'll admit that I haven't the slightest idea how well it would mesh with D20 Modern. It's a nifty d20-based supers system, though; one of the better supers games on the market, in fact. If nothing else, it might give you ideas about how...

I just shrug, say "sure, if that's what you want," and tell them that their new character will start with the same number of experience points as the lowest-level member of the party. Oh, and that I'll need to vet their new character and whatever equipment they want to start with, and that if...

As far as I know, there isn't any official distinction in the RAW; just some sloppy phrasing by the authors, who namedrop "extradimensional" and "nondimensional" freely (and seemingly interchangeably) when discussing things like bags of holding and rope trick. That said, jodyjohnson's take on...

Meh. I did it (successfully) last year, but I don't really feel like I need to do it again. And this year I should be spending my time on other things anyway. That said, I'll add a few pieces of advice to takyris's collection of good ideas (by the way, ABSOLUTELY make an outline, it makes it...

Huh. That's weird. Having all the heavy people hop into a portable hole, I can see. But a bag of holding? As in, "Climb into this bag, dude, I'll let you out when we get there?" Never saw anyone try that. I suppose one could always say that there's no breathable atmosphere inside the...

A friend of mine yoinked this idea off rpg.net, and was very pleased with it: Write up a bunch of index cards, each with a somewhat vague plot hook, NPC contact, or background detail on it. Deal 'em all out face-up, let the players look them over, and then tell them to pick the three or four...

Not as a general rule, no. Fear was generated more by specific situations rather than by specific NPCs. For example, towards the end, the BBEG's lieutenants were most often being sent to do nasty things to people and places that the player characters liked, and so there was usually a nervous...

We ran just such a thing, twice, and at some point we'll do a third and final installment of the game. We used GURPS, but without most of the fancier options. For magic (on par with Hammerite priests), we used GURPS Magic, but everything was subject to GM approval. To add a little cinematic...

1. As a player, I tend to get very problem- and plot-focused; the parts of the game that I concentrate my attention on are what is happening, what obstacles need to be overcome, and what details need to be kept track of. As a GM, I'm almost exclusively motivation-focused; the parts of the game...

Well, no, I wasn't seriously assuming anything about your group or how y'all play your game. Again, that's kind of the whole point of making it clear that I'm just stating a personal opinion, only talking about our game, and very deliberately not speaking for anyone else. :D But now that...

Ain't that the truth? I was lucky enough to play in a game once where the main villain got a fantastic introduction. It was one of those setups where the good guys are uncovering the evil plot in the time-honored "kill your way up the bad guy ladder" method: you know, where they stumble into...

Our group moves from system to system fairly regularly. In the past two years, we've done:Vampire: unfortunately, we did this before the new WoD ruleset came out. :( Feng Shui: one of my all-time favorites! And this last time I didn't have to be the GM! the Marvel Universe RPG: the new one...