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Scale creep and creative differences between manufacturers make nailing down an exact scale difficult, but 1/64 works for older 25mm models while more modern 28mm lines are often called 1/56 now days. Because of availability of models many gamers use 1/50 and 1/48th models and for the same...

Short answer is no. Ice still behaves like a liquid in many ways, just very slowly. That being said individual icebergs locked in the ice could loom several hundred feet into the air. In the right conditions a Sargasso Sea like current could bring hundreds or even thousands of icebergs...

I have found that the most important thing is for the players to trust the DM and for the DM to be creative without betraying that trust. This is why a campaign proposal set aboard a runaway flying whale sets off alarm bells when one fellow proposes it and elicits cries of "Cool" when the next...

In college a friend of mine had a studio apartment so he bought an old 24' Ryder moving truck and converted it into a game room on wheels that he would drive to cons and such as well as using for weekly games. It was a tight fit and required a narrow table but otherwise worked well. He even...

Mirliton in Italy has a halfling Paladin Mirliton SG - 25-20-15 mm miniatures for wargames and collectors :: Half Man mounted Paladin - Half Man mounted Paladin - HM010

I use extruded polystyrene insulation, usually called blue or pink board depending on the brand. A 4'x8' sheet of 1/2" is in the $10-15 range. It is easy to cut into strips and then you can inscribe the stone or brick pattern in with a pencil. It's even easy to do while watching a movie or...

It's currently 66 degrees in my basement and 87 degrees upstairs. Basement for the win.

I made the same joke in the theater at the end of the movie. My wife didn't get it but an older couple behind us laughed.

Like everyone as I have grown older and collected responsibilites my gaming time has shifted - gone are three or four long games a week. My own weekly game has been on hiatus since Christmas and is just now sputtering back to life. But I have found the solution. My son is just turning 12 and...

One thing I noticed in playing T:2000 and some sci fi games with tread heads is that a tank crew makes for an odd RPG situation in combat. At best (game play wise) only two or three people are making decisions and the rest are only rolling a die. This is similar to many sci fi games and starship...

Some from an old campaign of mine are the three children of Trenae, goddess of fountains - Lepuum The rabbit headed God of Ornamental gardens - Splish The god of downspouts and rainbarrels - Gigla Goddess of outdoor play

I use craft paints (Americana, Deltacoat, et al) for most of the basic colors and the Reaper for specialized things such as Flesh tones. Reaper also makes an extender that is a thinner that works well on water based craft paints.

Keep in mind that it really takes very little tyranny exerted over their characters to drive most players to violence so there is no need to over do it. I developed such a state on the granny and librarian model. There was no need to have Paladins on every corner, instead all "improper"...

What products could they offer that I want? I have no interest in buying any more 4th ed material having decided to stick with 3.5/Pathfinder and have all the 3.5 books I need. Perhaps if the DDI included a 3.5 character generator I would embrace it but that is about all I can think of.

I allow fighters to straight up swap out their tower shield proficiency for Combat Expertise and their heavy and medium armor feats for any other 2 feats if they wish. This goes some of the way towards a no armor character. Next I also have a house rule feat Parry Prerequisite: Dodge When...

Still playing 3.5. When the current game winds down we will probably try Pathfinder as most of our group has rejected 4th.

Having the NPC simply leave to attend to matters reinforces the "I'm more important than you" problem. Likewise killing him or seperate fights likewise emphasizes the level distinction and the second class status of the lower level PCs. Therefore the wizard leaving should be as a result of...

I have tended to use the Crusades model because I like the opportunites of having the PCs and their allies being surrounded by foes without needing to have wiped out all of civilization. As a variant I also draw from the Allied intervention in Russia at the end of WWI. Sent to assist an ally...

The Ars Magica game, freed from the default Medieval Europe setting, can be a good alternative system for this sort of thing. For 3.5 I ran a similar game (4 wizards) I worked on expanding the powers of the PCs so that they'd have options for when they ran out of spells. I upgraded familiars...

I still remain quite partial to Metagaming's In the Labyrinth, their RPG version of the Fantasy Trip series. Something of a proto-Gurps I find it plays well even today.