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The latest episode of Metagamers Anonymous, the newest podcast from the Prismatic Tsunami tabletop RPG community, is up and ready for public consumption. In our sixth episode of Metagamers Anonymous, our cast rambles on about the merits of dramatic tension, how it heightens the play experience...

I admit... it's particulalry nice to find myself looking forward to each new article, checking every couple days to see what's new. Since I'm not a 4E player, it's been a while since I've had that feeling. I agree, Merric... they seem to be handling it quite nicely, and I am excited by the...

I purchased (and paid for) a silver subscription on May 9th. It isn't listed in my "active subscriptions", however, and I my community supporter account status still says "inactive." Do I need to do something further to activate my subscription? I would appreciate any assistance. ~ Orryn

I agree. Mark's perception is very understandable, however, if you read Mike's comments through the lens of 4E-design-philosophy expectations. This has also been a fear of mine, as the focus on combat in 4E was a serious enough detraction to keep me from indulging. That being said, it is...

I have to second Happy Jacks! They are seriously entertaining and give some great advice... I also think Roleplaying Public Radio and Postcards from the Dungeon often have some great ideas mixed in. My own group has recently started a new podcast, as well, called Metagamers Anonymous. I hope...

Thanks, Morrus... I really appreciate it! I don't know why it wasn't workin', but this link worked just fine. Now I just to need take inventory on my color cartridges and put my printer to work. *grins*

I tried to download them from the Resources page, and the zip file wouldn't open... my machine said it was "not valid". I'm not having any problems with the rest of the files, but of course I need this particular set this week. The end of last night's session saw the opening moves of the...

As a life-long DM, I've always had a pretty solid knack for blending my players' stylistic interests. My groups tend to weigh heavily on the roleplaying side (perhaps too much so, at times), so the longer they play together the easier it gets. That being said, my wife and I recently tried a 4E...

Thank you! That is extraordinarily helpful, sir! I feel like I want to try to narratively summon some of the soft grandeur of Rivendell the way it was presented visually in the movies, but with an edge that befits Shaaladel's hard interior. I really like the tiered structure idea, as well...

I have an opportunity to run a side quest next week to extract an NPC from house arrest at the home of Lord Shaaladel in Calanis. The PCs are between adventure #7 (Trial of Echoed Souls) and #8 (O, Wintry Song of Agony) at about 14th level. Does anyone have any ideas for what Shaaladel's...

I'm running the 3.5 version with a party of seven. I never treat NPCs as "DMPCs"... but I do inject enough personality and perspective into them to give them weight. Torrent contributed in combat where appropriate, though I made sure to keep her contibutions fairly minimal and used her as...

I'm fairly certain our most memorable lines can be largely attributable to one particular player, but here's one of my favorites: It was an Arcana Evolved game some years back, and the party has been chased into a narrow tunnel by a massive hydra. They're inside the tunnel far enough that it...

In my campaign, I played it so that Haddin's death released her from the enchantment. It actually played a very significant role in her future with the campaign, since she had basically spent her entire life in her father's shadow not living a life at all. She's grown quite a bit. :cool:

I started playing D&D when I was young, circa 1983, and I distinctly remember miniatures being mentioned in the rulebooks, and available to order in the Mail Order Hobby Shop catalogs, but entirely out of my budget. My first DMs didn't use them, so neither did I. As I grew with the game from a...

An excellent point. I prefer the complexity of the prior edition, in fact, and run my games accordingly... but to make it worth my time and energy, I use powerful software utilities to make it happen. I've been known to point out that, although I could certainly run a 3.x game with pen, paper...

I'm a radio disc jockey... I don't think that really fits any of your categories.

... And ACROBAT is more than just a READER... *grins*

My group actually tried a seven-session 4E run with about 3rd-level characters right when the game came out last summer. It felt like a fair assessment of the game, and we decided that it wasn't for us. Unsurprisingly, most of the reasons mentioned by the OP were central to this decision...

This is a lot of fun to read! Certainly provides a cool perspective on the first part of the campaign. I've been chronicling my own party's experiences at LiveJournal (there are spoilers, of course)... Please, keep it up!

I run 3.5E, so DM Genie is teh bomm!!! I checked out a lot of different campaign management and game maintenance software before I settled on it. I used to use MyInfo before that... it was really good for organizing campaign information.