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Best as DM: Designing modules, roleplaying encounters Worst as DM: Encounters on the fly, Recovering from Stupid Player Tricks on the fly (3ed... I was actually really good at this in 1ed.) Best as a player: Designing and role playing memorable characters, complete with histories...

In a home-brew adventure I was running, there was a pile-up in a dorrway as the result of some really interesting decisions by the PC's. The "move of the century" was by one of the fighters (I believe) in full steel regalia who decided to jump OVER the pile, and do a Starsky and Hutch diving...

I both played and DM's this. My post is the same as everyone else's. Many a favored character was sent unto his/her deity. This is, by far, my absolute favorite module of all time. I hated the work up WotC did on it, and spent the time to do it myself. I do an after school group with the local...

I DM's this adventure as and AD&D module. I had a character go mad and take off running, only to get killed; another one stole the harp, and I actually wiped out most of the party with the doppleganger.

Ah, yes..... This was the first adventure I ever played in and my first DMing experience. I still use the battle scene, with the dead characters and monsters from time to time in my adventures. I also kept the idea of having the magic mouth spell at various points in different adventures.

My group has quite a few children as players, so we only allow non-alchy bev's while they are in attendance. When we had a particularly popular character get killed (it was his last game with us, and he was a Puerto Rican Dwarven Barbarian that went out with axes in both hands.) the adults all...

In October of 1978, a friend of mine was telling me about this cool game that was like Lord of the Rings (I was reading the Hobbit... again). We made up my character right there in math class, and I played my first game that weekend. I stuck around because it gave me a release point from my own...

My favorite NPC was actually from the old Runequest game I ws playing in the mid 1980's. It was an intelligent skeleton that was a recurring villian.

STR- 9 DEX- 14 CON- 15 INT- 14 WIS- 12 CHA- 14 Class: Bard Level: 5 Race: Human I am a professional musician (and writer) that never had time for working out, really. (OK, I had the time, just not the inclination). I have run marathons, and have endured Marine Corps force marches...

The group I'm in had a thief in a prior campaign that made it a habit of stealing from party members... and then acting comedically inncocent when he got caught. He didn't do it every game, and he very, very rarely picked on one character... and he never stole anything the character really...

What I like about the 3.x Paladin... any race can be a warrior for their main deity. What I don't like: It's too easy to become a Paladin. Any fool with a 9 ANYTHING can be a Paladin and get the benefits (not too powerful, but benefits) Too many people think a Paladin is still only 2...

For the part about group initiative... it's your game. Explain that the combats are taking too long, and this is going to help out. My group actually does one initiative for each combat, and it has never been an issue. Perhaps your players are too demanding. To keep the combats moving, what we...

My normal group is in the 8-12 range, so we have developed a series of table rules that help to keep things moving: 1) When you are called on, the DM will give you a silent 3-5 count. Then he starts counting aloud from 5 backwards. If you have not begun your action before he gets to 0, you...

Friggin' mages In our 1-3 level group... our mage, whilst the rest of us were involved in combat with 10 zombies, decided to cast "Identify" on some arrows the Dwarf fighter found the room before. The DM had it scheduled that 9 dire rats were to attack from behind during the melee... and the...

I am currently playing in a Drqagonlance campaign, and my character is a cleric to Mishakal. As this particular deity requires defense, and protection and healing of those who are unable to do so themselves (incluiding ones enemies), he spends most battles healing and protecting others...

I NEVER Fudge die rolls. When it comes to combat, I roll the "monster" attacks and any other rolls that would not normally be done in secret in front of the players. We have a DM in our group that tends to fudge the rolls in the party's favor CONSTANTLY, and the aura of danger has gone out of...

About the only thing we've done is to have my Bard/Rogue in the current Temple of Elelmental Evil Campaign be a Rilkan. It gave the party a reason to be there because my Bard, being the businessman that they are known to be, hired them to accompnay him while he investigated the missing caravans...

For me, it depends on the character and what his/her concept/back story is as to where I dump. Even though I used to play Paladins all the time, and used INtelligence as the dump (as per 1ed), or clerics, and dumped into Dex or Int (for no real reason at all), my last two characters have been...

I can see how people might feel that the d20 system inhibits role playing; however our group had absolutely no challenge with it at all. Within our group, we have three main players who grew up role playing as opposed to roll playing, and practically insist on opportunities for it. We have two...

I'm going to add me voice to the crowd that says you could have made better choices. First, It is YOUR mission, not his. When you are running your game, it is (to steal a phrase) your way, and there is no highway option. As you told them ahead of time what the deal was, and they had time to...