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Thanks very much! It's nice to know the old noggin' still works from time to time. :)

Well, drat. I guess I must be nuts. I could've sworn up and down that I saw this article somewhere in my misspent youth. Perhaps I just dreamed about it. Last call for anyone to confirm or deny my sanity! Please help!

I was thinking about some of the Dragon Magazines I used to read back in the day, and I could swear that I remember one particular article - I believe it was in the "Ares" section (back when Dragon used that) and was part of one of the April Fool's issues. The article itself was a humorous look...

ENWorld name: Ramien Meltides Real Name: Ross

When it comes to weeding folks out of a large group, I don't think that character death is a good method. I don't think it's right to penalize someone for bad luck, choosing a low-hit dice class, or having a less-than-stellar Constitution score. Consider what kinds of players you want to keep...

We could always have a fistfight - last five gamers standing get to play! :) Seriously, maybe you could set the first hurdle as arriving at the game - anyone who doesn't make the first session is OUT.

Birthright is the setting that I credit most with my continued fascination with D&D. At first, I dismissed the setting as "that place where you play as kings", but after reading through the booklets in the boxed set, I was hooked. No other setting has ever affected quite as much as Birthright...

When it comes to worst DM screw-ups, I've got two: Screw-Up #1: A long-running Birthright campaign had been doing just fine for over a year and I was getting ready to end one story arc and begin another. The idea was to have the PCs confront one of the main bad guys of the campaign setting...

I just thought I'd mention Destan's game again as well - he's looking for a few more players! Destan's running in Leesburg on Wednesday nights from around 7:30 - 11:30 p.m. and we could use a few more warm bodies, er, capable roleplayers!

I liked this method a lot as well, but recently I've experienced the fixed amount per level method and I think I prefer that one slightly more. Our DM gave us max HP at 1st level and then 1/2 max (including the .5, rounded up every other level) every level afterwards -NO ROLLING. I think it...

For me, it's all point-buy, all the time. I very much prefer the 32 point buy as my favorite way to generate ability scores, both as a player and as a DM.

I'm extremely grateful for everyone's participation in this thread. It seems I've gone from a desert of gamers to a lush and pleasant oasis of games all around me :) I hope everyone will be a little patient with me - my home PC's motherboard just melted down the other night (right as all the...

Wow, look at all the replies to this thread! Sniktch (being a GW employee I love your user name), no worries about hijacking the thread - this is a discussion forum after all! I appreciate your concerns, though, and I'm really glad you chose to speak now rather than wait. Can you tell me more...

Destan, Let me add my voice to the many others here to say how impressed I am by your writing skills and your story hour. I'm a rather discriminating reader (some call me PICKY), as your story hour makes only the second I have ever followed (after Piratecat's). I plan to be at GenCon and will...

My beginnings are shrouded in mystery...well, no, they're not, but it sounds niftier that way. I began by freelancing my talents to Hero Games and Atlas Games on a few products, mostly kept my hand in by doing magazine articles, and eventually I graduated to working on sourcebooks and campaign...

Hey, Alynnalizza, where are you at in Maryland? I'm trying to find a group local to me, since I live in Frederick - gamer desert so far as I can tell :)

*Bump* Just a reminder that the book signing is tomorrow. In addition, the signing has been extended and runs from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Hope to see some ENWorlders there!

Cool, let me know when you've settled in :)

Ramien Meltides +1 Also, I spoke with the Other Realms owner and he's interested in having some store representation at the games day. So maybe more :)

*Bump* C'mon, anybody? Bueller? :)