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    I'm a daddy!!!! (Now with picture!)

    Best wishes to both of them and to you... There is nothing else in the world when you hold this little thing in your arms...
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    DriveThru RPGs Customer Service

    I had a similar problem with a freebie and when I deleted the partly loaded file (try to find them via the timestamp) from the Temporary Internet Files. I was able to download those files completely. When you order a file you are cleared to transfer it to your computer, but if the file is...
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    Total Defense and Tumble

    Edit: this post is completely irrelevant. I took Total Defense for Full Defense
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    Need Monster Books

    Lots of Monsterbooks have already been mentioned. Here are some that have not been mentioned yet. - Bestiary of Loerem - Sovereign Stone Monsters - Monsters Of Rokugan - Monsters for Oriental Adventures in Rokugan - Lords Of the Night: Vampires - Liches - Zombies (3 very cool books about a...
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    Good ways to tick off PCs?

    If the PC's have an item in their possession the ruler wants. He asks for it, but will offer nothing in return... he is just assuming that they will give him the object because of his rank...
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    Best starting modules

    Of Sound Mind, and a Converted N4 "Treasure Hunt" (in addition to the Freeport, NeMoren's Vault, Crucible of Freya adventures). I think Lost City of Barakus is also aimed at a begining party.
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    New to D&D and becoming a DM

    The ability to fudge rolls is the reason why I use a dice box. I peer under it and if I want to show it to the players I can (especially if you are using a hardback as a base for dice rolling). Do not fudge too often... Using the D&D Basic Game to introduce the players bit by bit to the rules...
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    New to D&D and becoming a DM

    First, a big welcome to you and I wish you and your group to have lots of fun and awe inspiring moments during your adventures. Since it wasn't mentioned yet, I heartily recommend using the Initiantive Cards from The Game Mechanics. This tool helps you to keep track of the players and monsters...
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    [Oct] What's up in your campaign?

    Monday group: preparation of a weekly classic FR campaign before and during the Time of Troubles (using 3e rules they are gonna play a sequence of Ruins of Adventure - Avatar trilogy - Marco Volo trilogy - For Duty And Deity, bound together by a Contest of Champions to send them off to Phlan and...
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    Stronger zombie?

    Also have a look at "Lords of the Night: Zombies" from Bottled Imp Games where different types of more powerful Zombies are introduced. Very good stuff indeed.
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    Your First Gaming Book?

    This should be "Das Schwarze Auge" (commonly known as DSA in Germany) also known as "The Dark Eye" to English speaking people (that which Fast Forward has released, but the writing has been done by FanPro). It is actually a quiet good role playing game with a very detailed world. There have been...
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    Help Me ReWrite Post-1910 History

    First, I suggest that you read the comic "Rex Mundi"... On the other hand. 1908 sees the rise of magic in the world. Does it spread out from Tunguska (making Russia the first country with magic users) and if yes how fast. You can be assured, that Magic users will be persons in the background...
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    "I'll never get to play XYZ": your biggest regrets?

    I regret never to be able to continue my first homebrew setting, because the players involved have been scattered around the country (and world - I live in Germany and one of them is now in Sydney, that's nearly as far as it can get). It was an Island Kingdom (based on the map from Ursula K. Le...
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    Your First Gaming Book?

    In 1979 I found a new gaming store in the city of Hamburg that had a box called Dungeons & Dragons in its program (this was before the red box came out), it was in English but I urged my Dad to buy it nonetheless. He thought he could further my grip on the English language and I thought it was a...
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    Dungeon's 2nd Adventure Path

    I am already looking forward to that one, even though I have just begun running the Shackled City with my group(s)...
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    Teaching the spousal unit D&D

    Trying to introduce a player into roleplaying... you should accentuate the actual roleplaying part. Something like a gauntlet riddled with riddles, and perhaps one combat... It is much more important to introduce into the form of being in your role and having a dialogue with the NPC's and acting...
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    [Sept] What are you playing?

    Running one Shackled City Adventure Path (which goes on 5 week hiatus due to me and another guy going on holiday) every fortnight. Preparing a Forgotten Realms campaign (Time of Troubles) in October (weekly) and perhaps another Shackled City Adventure Path in that month... Running 3...
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    Critique My Writing (I think it's horrible)

    My native language is German, but I will try to put into words what I have noticed while reading these short fragments. Your style is very graphic, very fast, and lets the reader i.e. me picture the action before my mind's eye. One thing that caught my fancy is the repeated use of "The" at the...
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    About ... your table

    I have three setups 1) a big table (3' by 10' ellipse) in the kitchen / dining room with space for 10 players (although we had need for 8 seats and the non-DM end is cluttered with the stereo and foodstuff) 2) comfy chairs and sofas in the living room (dice rolling on books) 3) (only for small...
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    Sports in D&D

    I was thinking of placing a sport like Jugger into my campaign world (with lots of clerics nearby for healing...). We had also some arm wrestle matches in a tavern...
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