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What supplements/aids have you found most useful for DMing D&D, both at the table and in prep? I'm looking for other useful stuff like the Dungeon Alphabet or d30 DM Companion.

Good call, I missed that. It's enough of a hint that sharp players will catch it and say, "ah-ha!", which is key.

Good discussion guys, it's interesting to see so many different viewpoints. Shadowslayer, that was sort of my point. I guess I'm one of those gamers who thinks a monster should have a reason to be there. I also think that the players, not just the DM, should at least have a chance to...

Bihor, I don't so much mean the backstory at the start of the adventure that describes what the adventure is about, but little pieces of information within the adventure that would connect what the players perceive into a meaningful whole.

Have other people noticed a tendency in modules to give all sorts of cool backstory to the DM that it's impossible (or nearly so) for the players to ever learn about, so that what seems like a really cool set-up to the DM is incoherent and/or meaningless from the perspective of the players...

I'm also looking for a group in the Austin area, I'm 25 and have played D&D since I was a kid (I started wtih the Basic set with the red dragon on the treasure hoard). Please let me know if you're still looking for players, Thom. Chris

european eating In my experience, Europeans don't eat much smaller portions at meals. When I lived with another guy with a senora in spain, she would serve us a whole plate of bread, a whole plate of meat, and whole plate of vegtables and expect us to finish it all between us. People in...

It's also relatively easy to mitigate these super high spell DCs if you are the leader of a magic academy, or a temple or a cult or some such, using ritual magic. Each person contributing a 1st level spell can decrease the DC by 1, eacy 2nd level by 3, and so forth. This can make for some cool...

Man, they just left their friend's body lying out in the woods? Cold. Chris

Well, I don't know about New England but I recently went on a ski trip with some people from Texas A&M, and one of them brought along a .45 pistol. No particular reason.

Uh, isn't that pretty much the way the real world works? How many people marry their perfectly ideal wife/husband? How many people have their perfectly ideal job, perfectly ideal house, live in their perfectly ideal city... etc. Learning to deal with not getting exactly what you want is one...