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We've had dress up stuff a few times, mostly at the behest of our dm. At our Halloween game this year, we got bonus eeps for coming in costume. Bonus bonus eeps for dressing as our characters. Only myself and one other did that. There's another person in the group who was playing a seshayen...

What with all the excellent advice and observations offered thusfar, I can only see one thing that has not been touched upon. T, you've mentioned several times that the dragon wasn't using prime tactics because it was controlled by the demon. Swanky. However, I believe you also mentioned that...

The way our group does it, is a 1 is rerolled, and if that roll would have hit, then it's just an auto-miss. If the second roll also misses, then it's a fumble. When one guy DMed, he declared that a fumble meant getting only a partial action next turn. The regular DM has a percentile chart he...

I agree with those who've suggested going light on the treasure for awhile. However, I would advise against doing things to take away all their swanky items. At this point it would be a pretty obvious ploy to regain balance, and that might suck some fun from your players that they found all...

Of course! Everything's better with a unique twist on it. In particular, my players have always loved it when something a little silly gets plunked into an otherwise serious game. One of the most popular being the witch that tried to eat them and beat the rogue halfway to unconsiousness with...

Adam Kohl is the bestest DM ever. First, he is an excellent storyteller. The amount of work and complexity he puts into them is nearly impossible to describe. Many-faceted plots are worked out months in advance, complete with hooks tailored to each player. The NPCs are vivid and memorable...

Ok, so yeah, it's been done. I've done it. (Wrote a movie about a group of LARPers being poofed away to fantasy land when one of them turned out to be an elven princess.) And yes, it's corny as can be. But if your group likes the idea of a nostalgic sort of light hearted game, then go for...

A dire rat. I was a half elf ranger with a longsword and dagger. We hacked apart all the vermin in the dungeon and then our first level selves found the mummy...and didn't understand why we couldn't hurt it. Smashing the half rotted floor at its feet did, though, and when it fell onto a pile...

We celebrate. Although I wasn't playing with the group last year and had to thank my DM from afar, this will be the second year that the group lauds the DM. The players are encouraged to buy the DM things like minis, which he brings to all the games whether he's DMing or not, and we get extra...

Last session, not long after my character died via giant octopus, the party comes across a small, circular room with two doors: one coming from the hall where they entered, and another directly across. The room was I think 15-20ft diameter. Of course it's a pit trap, but no one fell in. There...

I think it has less to do with not listening to mental commands or drowning out your own thoughts, and more to do with using your mental fortitude, the will save, to fight off the invading force. In either case, something is trying to get in. Either a command, or a presence that listens to...

I wanted a nice vinyl battlemat like my DM's chessex. Except he paid 30 bucks for his. I went to Jo ann fabrics and bought a $5 piece of vinyl and a new ultrafine sharpie. After about an hour communing with a yardstick, and I had a mat that's now lasted me almost two years with no wear other...

...and an old man with a hooded robe and a stooped gait approaches you and says "Hello. My name is Plah'took." I figure that taverns and inn common rooms are all octagonal, with a single candle on an empty table in the middle of the room, to accommodate all the mysterious strangers who hang...

My mat is the same vinyl as a chessex, but i drew the lines myself, so when I clean it, I have to make sure NOT to take off the sharpie. Red never touches my mat, but my blue Lumocolor marker is my trusted friend. I do, however, wind up with a thin layer of blue all over it, though, after I...

Ohg the half orc fighter had an int of 10, wis of 11, cha of 6. I figured that he would wind up getting killed early on and would be replaced with a character with better stats. But he went through the whole campaign and turned out to be one of the best characters ever. Ohg was not bright...

I'm in. I need to find the other thread to sign up in, though. Shall be searching post haste.

I'd be very interested in this project! Education: BA in English from Michigan State University, specialization in creative writing. Experience in editing: A creative wrting regime involves extensive self and peer editing, including work on short fiction, nonfiction, short theatrical works...

(My first post! I'm so proud...) I've been playing a druid in the longest campaign I've ever been in. (We pick up from Christmas break next week.) Currently we're at level 10. Of course a lot of the choices you make depend on the style and strenghs of the character, these are the things...