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The character concept which never fails to grab me is the "professional adventurer" (human rogue with a smidgeon of fighter); having grown up in some crappy little podunk village, he has his sights set on becoming a major celebrity, just like the adventurers those bards always sing about. So...

Agreed. And that's why you'll see that I used enough "I think"s and "I like"s and "I'm starting to feel"s to indicate that I was stating an opinion and not writing my manifesto declaring that your crimes against roleplaying must be punished. In our group, high character mortality plus low...

Actually, I'm starting to feel the opposite. One of the things I like about RPGs is players getting attached to their characters. I like it when I'm a player, and I like it when I'm a GM. Raise dead and similar effects help to encourage that kind of play, I think. When death is common (which...

:D FORUM NECROMANCY!!! Though at least CanadienneBacon had a good reason for unearthing this zombie thread and setting it to lurch randomly around the front page. Judging from the lack of any followup response from dreaded_beast, though, I'm going to guess that he's disappeared on y'all again...

No, I left that one out very deliberately. You should NEVER run a plot that you don't like just because your players love it. That would just be unnecessarily masochistic. It's tough enough to GM a game without making it a game that you don't enjoy at all. But running something you only...

This raises some interesting questions. Say your players disagreed with your signature, or at least didn't think that D&D was only about heroic adventure and doing the right thing. Or maybe they got burned out on heroic adventure and doing the right thing. What if they suddenly decided that...

Or, alternately, the GM shouldn't put effort into creating a big epic campaign like that for players who don't want to play the heroes who stop or postpone the cataclysm. Like shilsen says, this is the kind of thing that really should be discussed at the start of the game; you can't say "go...

Yeah, it's a pain when they won't just let you kill them and take their stuff. ;) But look at it this way: it was worse in earlier editions, where you got xp for the kill and nothing else. At least in 3rd Edition, you're still the winner regardless of whether your opponent died at the end...

And this has the virtue of actually being the CORRECT answer. The rest of you guys could learn from this man. ;) No, seriously, I agree with The Grackle. Most of the time when I've seen a big, world-shaking plot hook ignored (either as a GM or as a player), it's been because it genuinely...

Actually, the word is that Mike Pondsmith is currently putting together a new edition of Cyberpunk. Not the Fuzion rewrite of years past, mind you...an actual brand-new edition. Apparently with more focus on nanotechnology, though so far nothing concrete is known about it, including the...

None of us have 3.5, but if we did, I think that I'd probably ditch the "standing up invites an attack of opportunity" rule. Because honestly, I'm not sure why that rule was introduced in 3.5 in the first place. Not once did I ever see a character stand up from prone in a 3.0 game and think...

I like most of the advice that's been given so far; trust me, the earlier you bring this up with him (starting via e-mail sounds "safe" to me, too), the better. He's not going to get better on his own, and he might not even get better at all, so you want to get to the "Nothing personal, but...

Something else you might want to consider is what level the game is starting at and how long you're likely to be playing a character. In longer games, I feel like attribute adjustments and racial skill bonuses tend to become less important; either they become insignificant next to all the cool...

Ah, yes, the time-honored "The people who designed this were crazy, or at least would seem to be crazy to ordinary people" explanation. ;) But hopefully at the end of this thread you'll post what riddle you decided to go with and also what the backstory behind it all was. My curiosity has...

But the real question is, is that what your PLAYERS would like it to be? Is that something that they would find rewarding to do, or are they happier with searches being abstract and quickly resolved and using the time they save to concentrate on parts of your game that are more fun for them...

I hope it's not just you. You're cool, I want more people like you around. ;) Echoing what you (and tarchon and Saeviomagy) said, the best question to ask is not "what riddle can I use", but "why should I use a riddle?" But hey, say your little heart is set on having the McGuffin be the...

I got the impression that this was one of the things that a GM is supposed to stomp on when a player suggests it. Something like "Uh...NO. Use Craft Wand instead, because this is not the kind of thing that Craft Wondrous Items is supposed to handle," or "No way; I'll let you get 2xday for that...

I think we worked it out once for our 3rd edition games, and elves and humans were roughly equal. We also had couple of half-elves, and a couple of planetouched (two genasi and an aasimar). We had one halfling, but really only because I was dared to play one. No one ever played a dwarf, and...

I generally stuck to "favorite" spells. Every day's spell rack was essentially the same, unless I had some kind of advance notice that a different layout would be needed. For something to become a favorite, it tended to be more useful than its peers (like, say, Magic Missile once you get to...

Ooh, this one looks messy. For one thing, if a Brilliant Energy weapon is energy, why doesn't it do energy damage? Or does it do energy damage, even though the description doesn't explicitly say that it does? And if it DOES do energy damage, what kind of energy damage is it? (I do like the...