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Eh. I think I'm pretty good at my job. For the most part, I've liked my co-workers (and met two of my best friends through the business). What I don't like about it is: 1) Every ad agency is the same. I've worked at four big ones so far since college. They'll tell you that they're all...

That was an awesome cover! In 8th grade we had a creative writing assignment wherein you had to take a picture from a magazine and write a story about it. I used that picture and wrote a whole series of short stories called "The Cavalier". The teacher loved it!

That killed me! I do the same thing. Mine is from FHM magazine. Which agency do you work at? What accounts? (sorry for the thread hi-jack). I carry too much stuff when I DM: 1) The FHM bag with my 3 core books and a notepad plus pencils/pens plus one little thing of dice. It also doubles...

Best Fast Food Burger: In-and-Out. No contest. I'd say Fatburger was a good distant second, except I'd be lying because Fatburger is horrible. :) For South Pasadena (real limited area, I know), I'm gonna go with "Hi-Life" on Fair Oaks. Awesome bacon cheeseburgers, and the "small fries" and...

I find myself in that predicament all the time because I haven't codified every single detail of my campaign world. Then, a year or so after I've made a decision, I realize "Oh, I should have done it this way." I handle it differently depending on how important it is: 1) I'd say 75% of the...

It's not really a "problem". It's just that two of my main villains in the campaign were both defeated by tripping, which just seems so, as I said, anti-climactic. It's not that I don't want this guy to trip. That's not my point. In this thread, I was just looking for some things I could do...

No hostility at all on my end. I was probably a little bit "rant-ish" in my post. Basically, I'm just looking for ideas and suggestions to make the combats more varied and get the other characters involved a bit more.

Yeah, I had him do that and start running away, but the Rogue had an item to see invisibility or something like that (a potion, I think) and the Kensai ran him down. Yeah, I tried the charm person thing, too, but because of the Paladin levels and such, this guy's got pretty good saves...

Perhaps I did coddle them a little bit. I was just used to the way that they fought during combats (which wasn't really the most efficient way for them to fight) so I probably got a little lazy with the tactics utilized by my bad guys. Sure. To be fair to him, though, the Mystic Theurge PrC...

Gang, Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for - a grab-bag of ideas and suggestions that I can dole out over the course of my upcoming adventures. This is the first time I've DM'd a player with the Improved Trip feat, but I figured that you all had done it and would have suggestions...

I started subscribing with Issue #90 and have kept it up to this day. Before that, I started buying them on the shelves starting with Issue #72 and I think I have almost every issue between #72 and #89, as well as about 20 scattered issues between #41 and #72. I also have the CD-ROM collection...

Yeah, I should have qualified that. They all started at 1st level except for the Druid who joined our game starting around level 5, I think. I call them "newbies" because, despite playing with 3+ years, they just don't have the same level of experience as the veteran (who, as a DM, really...

In another thread I mentioned a player of mine who has taken the Improved Trip feat. He's a Pal2/Ftr4/Kensai 3 with a halberd. Every combat tends to go this way: Kensai has Wizard player cast "Enlarge" on him to get the strength bonus and the size bonus for tripping. Then, the Kensai...

I've got a group that consists mainly of newbies who have sub-optimal character choices (the most glaring of which is a Cleric 5/Sorcerer 4, but he recently decided to try to qualify for Mystic Theurge, so at least he'll be a little bit better). The group consists of: * The Cleric 5 /...

Same thing happened to us in a game I play. We were low level, and it flew just far enough away to be out of range of our spells. No party druid to wildshape and go after it. It was weird. It followed us for days. That game is still going on, so we haven't quite found yet 100% what it was...

I have: 1) World Primer. A four-page summary of the world, including toplines on religion, races, history, as well as the basic philosophy of our group's game-play (influences for the campaign world, the basic structure of each session, power level, compliance with 3E/3.5 rules, magic level...

Yeah, I totally know what you mean. I saw this PrC called "Red Wizard of Thay" and I thought, "How lame! I can't use that. I don't have a country name 'Thay' in my homebrew. What a waste of money this product is!" I was paralyzed by fear and lack of imagination. I needed a class that was...

Dealing with Matt at Mongoose was very easy. We dealt with everything via e-mail, and when there was a calculation error on my payment, I pointed it out to him and it was fixed the very next day. Very cool person to work with.

No, I really liked that, too! I re-read that several times over the years. It was one of the things I was most looking forward to reading again after I got the CD-ROMs. I liked all the crazy-weird stuff like the Spanish halfling guy from Texeiras or wherever. It was so different from the...

I cheesed out on that one and had a friend of a bard who used to belong to the group (a player who had quit our game) say that he had information on where to find the bard character. It was a strong bit of railroading, but I was a little tired that night... I got them into the Burning Plague...