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    DM fun vs. Player fun...Should it be a compromise?

    I second that. And, as a Dm, if I ever opened my mouth, and saw players rollin their eyes or just waiting to kill things, I would tell them to go home and plug in their P3's and just have at it. Players who roll their eyes, or slouch in the sofa waiting to move on are the type of players that...
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    An Evil party... Troublesome?

    Yes.... You must set it up so that they HAVE to work together. (The enemy of my enemy is my friend...atleast for now.) Make it so that they have to work together, let them know that time and time agian in game. Like "well, if you don't save him, he can't get you in the room with the bla bla...
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    Do you announce Damage Reduction immediately?

    No. Llike any other fun thing, the players have to find out. Sometimes it takes the long hard way.
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    Removing yourself from a gaming group

    Ok, when you start off with "the signs where there" then its your own fault. Sorry, but we all know the types of people we should, and shouldn't play with. Now, to another matter. NOTES and why they are bad. I hope everyone is an adult (or adult-like) in their gameplay to know what can and...
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    Removing yourself from a gaming group

    AHAHAHAHAH. You should have gone back and kicked their ass again. Losers.
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    How Dangerous is your campaign world?

    No, the world is normal. There are strange and dangerous bad things, but then there are also strange and dangerous good things that make a buffer. These things live amongst humans, in and around them and help to keep other things out...so in the end, it evens out.
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    Should D&D Have an Alternate Death Mechanic?

    Well, if you don't like those spells....take them out of your game. If you take out all the aspects which might make death an option, then the game becomes less real and more video-gameish. Also, the DM should be able to make it so that death isn't always the answer, but when it happens (It...
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    Inserting a Villain

    Ok, bad things could happen. Now you've really put your self in the seat to save the players, unless you want them to die. 1) if the players ever fall asleep, they could be dead? 2) if the PLANT ever gets out of site while in a city *time to find some fun and nasty things to use on the...
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    Do gargoyles have a god?

    Better question, "Do they have to?" and a great follow up, "why would they?" Sorry, I like my gargoyles, if I use them, to be creatures. Just like bats, horses, and snakes...they don't pray, they don't talk. They are flying eating machines that like to burrow into rocky caves or other natural...
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    DM Prep Work Leading To Burnout: Help?

    Make the players really make their character: background, names, places...conflic prior to the game. Use the phrase "what do you do" alot, let the players pick and chose. You will find that when the players are able to move in the world, the world grows twice as fast. You will be forced to do...
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    Killing as fun and games: a question for the Good Guys

    I think you've got this all wrong. Where you, and players you know might see killing as fun and games, and the only way to advance others see it the way it should be. There are many ways to explain EXP and level advancement. Also, as much as you loved killing the Troll, I'm not sure its always...
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    Asking what others would do about a situation that is going on in my game

    Keeping NPC's low is always a good rule. IT makes too much work for you and can lead into situations like your in now...always let the Party decide; let them talk and work things out themselves. With two many NPC's or just one or two that they always come to, makes it so that you have to RP that...
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    Stupid High Skill Checks and Saves

    To what is your reply about? Explain.
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    Stupid High Skill Checks and Saves

    like I said, not a whole lot. Thats some 1000 Aes Sedi 2000 kin 1000 novices (so, worthless) 500 Asha'man (of levels we dont know) 2000 Wise Ones 500 Windfinders (only good on water, or sensing climate change, or wind direction so that their ships sail safely and smoothly) and an untold...
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    Stupid High Skill Checks and Saves

    Well, that's if you power up the world. In the books, there were only a few hundred female casters. And they were held into check by their Codes, and social and political influences. (so they can't just go around using their power as they saw fit) unless the DM just chose to side step the back...
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    Blind PCs

    NO NO NO NO I hate that. Never allow a player to take a Flaw, something to role play with, for the reason for getting a bonus to get stuff. Also, never alow them to get over their FLAW. Its a Flaw...it adds flavor to their character,makes them unique. It doesn't make them Dare Devil; unless...
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    Two-Headed Spear (Homer)

    Its smiply talking about a spear with two heads. One on either side.
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    Stupid High Skill Checks and Saves

    Well, I don't agree. I've recently found the "Wheel of Time" Rpg game book. It's very low magic. If your not a caster, you have no spell like or supernatural abilities. There are no magical itmes, and the few that exist are considered to be artifacts. Everyone is human, and the other playable...
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    Stupid High Skill Checks and Saves

    Well, I play it because it gives me enough info to use it how I want. I like to have the ability to use magic, the amount, and accesability to it as I see fit for the world my players live in. In other systems, some things are simply not there, and you can never put them there. I don't use high...
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    Stupid High Skill Checks and Saves

    Thanks, but as I said. I've never played a pre-packaged game. Was just saying, that those were the things that I saw in them. yes, I mold DnD to my specs, was just asking: why do some of them come set up that way. And when I was talking about the creatures (wolves) and using the example of how...
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