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Jeff., Brother, it sounds as if you are doing a great job at bringing another imagination into the realm. Being a divorced father, myself, I actually want to applaud you more for building memories with your son and not just sitting there watching tv and ignoring each other all night. We all...

With every edition I've played, my Paladins have always been 1ed versions of the class. Very strict codes of conduct with harsh penalties. As for clerics, they are built to serve their deities and to forward their agendas. If they are not going to do their deity's bidding, then why would the...

Bad DM's fall into a few realms for me: 1) No imagination- even if you are using pre-printed modules, the players WILL do something, usually more than one thing, to screw you up. A good DM needs to handle it and find a way to allow the characters to do their insanity and get them back on track...

When I first started playing, we had one of the guys running a Top Secret campaign that was really cool, and fun to do. Twilight 2000 was always fun, as was the Recon campaign I ran (although, I think a modern military campaign would be cool, and not just the Vietnam era gaming). Gaming in...

I have to say that I am surprised pawsplay is the first one to hit on the paladin and the LE working together...' Presuming that it was permitted somehow, and he got a special dispensation from his deity or priest in leiu thereof, the permitting of zombies being created goes WAY out of bounds...

I would let it go as far as the players wanted it to go. Had I determined the Lord was a set level, then I would allow it to be set there. If they are not able to deal with it, then they might realize it and let it go for another time. Once they are in the throne room (after roleplaying the...

I would let it go as far as the players wanted it to go. Had I determined the Lord was a set level, then I would allow it to be set there. If they are not able to deal with it, then they might realize it and let it go for another time. Once they are in the throne room (after roleplaying the...

Although, I don't usually plan out my campaigns for any particular level ending, I start with an idea of an overall theme/mission/etc and let it work from there. I sketch out a few missions I would like the party to undertake during their stay, and fill in the rest depending on what happens from...

I have 2 pretty stupid cahracter tricks to report (actually, there are literally hundreds more; however, we'll go with just 2): 1) 1ed CoC game. The characters are checking out a "haunted" house that the neighbors are slightly concerned about. Up the stairs, into the attic. There is a hangman's...

Many players have their own little superstisions, like this. When I first started playing D&D (back when there were still people who didn't know what the game was), it was almost holy writ amongst the various grouyps I played with that you did NOT randomly roll your dice between hits or saves or...

The Temple of Elemental Evil would be my suggestion. It is crawling with monsters; however, if he was captured and forced into servitude, he would be able to survive long enough for the party to rescue him... plus there are all of the elemental "dungeons" that would be large enough for him to hide.

I usually design adventures based on a campaign or an interesting thought.... Example: Campaign- During character creation, random character (Dwarf) was told from family lore that his father had been killed during the Goblin Wars...I decide, "OK... What would happen if his father was not dead...

I would rather play a campaign where I can develop my character story, regardless of what class he might be. If I were to be in the basically free-form where I am able to role play my way through it, and develop the character, and not just the numbers, I am all there... If I am in the second...

As long as the character has a decent concept, and role-playability, I can usually get behind it regardless of the class. My "perfect" character is a Paladin, though. It was my second class, ever, and the one that stuck around the longest. Although many people feel Paladins to be wimps, I ALWAYS...

One thing to remember while they are trying to old snoop and poop routine... What kind of armor do the fighters/clerics have? How much noise does it make as they clank around "silently" trying to sneak past guards and such. Also... any combat or excitement they cause is likely to be noticed by...

During my 1ed days, I had a character that made it beyond 10th level, and was- at retirement- slightly over 20th. 3.5, I had a Bard that I have recently discussed that made it to 12th before I voluntarily killed him off out of boredome with the character. As a 3.x DM, The same group where my...

Room III- Empty room... Door on opposite wall Standard Pit Trap in front of door... Door is a mimic that falls in on top of the hapless character. 20' Stairwell Down- Trap: 1/2 way down, trap sets off a grease spell 10- feet behind the lead character. Random Passage- Encounter: an old man...

I've never been in a situation where the DM was fired; however, we have suspended a couple or given them an assistant DM for a while to help put them back on track... Usually, the only DM's we have had hassles with were making rookie mistakes, or didn't cater to the party... we would just have...

Every group I have been in screened their players as much as possible, and made it a regulation that you had to be invited by a player who put his name to you before you were permitted to sit at the table... that gave us a bit of control over who played. ONE TIME, however, during my 1ed days...

I had a character, once, that fit this discussion... He was a Bard whose personality split 4 for 1... at various times, he was a Human Bard, a Gnome Illusionist, a Human Paladin, and a gay Human tailor... of course, he had none of the added skills and benefits of the various classes, and his...