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I believe you're talking about one of my favourite artists, the talented comic book artist Alex Ross. http://www.alexrossart.com/gallery/books/shadowrun/shadowrun.html

A string of bad DMing led to the untimely death of one of my first 2nd ed D&D campaigns. It started with the market guards wearing barding. For some inane reason whenever I went to describe the town guards I called them market guards and "banded" armour always became "barding." To this day I...

We're everywhere. Well, everywhere but centralised in Brisbane, is what I mean. :) I recently had a chat to one of the Ace guys about this very topic and, as Patrick said, he put it all down to different distributors. What Daily Planet does have over Ace is that they tend to get a lot of...

Here's the group (as of last night) that I DM: Golgo (Human Ranger) - magical longsword and magical dagger or longbow Tyrant (Human Fighter) - magical longsword ("Retribution") and magical buckler ("Scorn" -- these 2 weapons are actually a set) or strength shortbow or flaming oil (he's something...

Cat-lovers and the squeamish may wish to avert their eyes and move on to the next post ... A documented medieval game was to nail a live cat to a post and then have the combatants, with their hands behind their backs, take turns head-butting said cat to death. One assumes part of the game was...

Keep it simple Don't be a afraid to use cliches (there's nothing wrong with using the tried-and-true "mysterious stranger in a tavern asks you to go into the dungeon to find the lost amulet of Yargle" scenario) Let the players know it's your first time Start the PCs at 1st level Have a mix of...

Are you or are you not the DM? The relationship between the DM and the players is not one-sided. While the DM usually ends up giving a lot more he is not there to cater for the players every whim. Also, it's not just the DMs responsibility to make sure the game is fun for everyone -- it's up...

Ghostbusters 1st Ed. -- absolutely brilliant stuff! Chill -- surprisingly creepy. Advanced Recon -- in a cool Vietnam war/Stargate hybrid campaign. MERP -- Orc campaign hunting Hobbits and using the Rolemaster Critical Tables. Oh, the joy! Actually, I'm not sure if Recon and MERP are...

The group are currently purging (and occasionaly encouraging) evil throughout Greyhawk and they love it. It warms the heart when one of the guys comes up to you outside of the game and tells you how much they enjoy the richness of the campaign world. Which suits me fine as Greyhawk is still my...

The Cooperative Dungeons. The SRD. The free samples from Skeleton Key's e-Adventure tiles. Get enough of these and you can piece together some nice little combat grids.

Until the assassin friends of the guys you fought in the tavern make a house call. That'll learn ya. :]

Most of my 2ed campaign was almost entirely off the cuff (in fact about the only thing written down was the overall campaign synopsis and stats for the nefarious Thayan Tree Squid). While this saved me heaps of prep time it caused major continuity problems. As a result I had to keep things...

I usually find that feasting upon the entrails of gormless PCs helps any gaming jitters enormously.

Min-max away, my friend. Rules are the core of the d20 mechanics. If there are rules then DMs should expect that some people to want to work them to their advantage. Two points: 1) If more than a few players do this then, as the DM, make sure that this is the way you want the game to go. 2)...

Take the players out of their comfort zone - a nasty plane-hopping accident leaves the players stranded sans equipment on a quasi-plane of diseased offal and hunted by fiendish, slavering carrion beasts. Take yourself out of your own comfort zone - like DMing a particular style of campaign...

I'd love to play in a group with a lady DM. In over 20 years I've only been in three single sessions where a female was a player. Two of those were disastrous. The other was at a con (Big Weekend for anyone living in sunny Brisbane!) I think the ladies bring a wonderful element to the gaming...

Satisfying closure in a campaign is a rare and beautiful thing. I've been most fortunate and privileged to have DMed two 2ed D&D campaigns to climactic ends. Some of the players still bug me about resurrecting one of them "just to tidy up a few loose ends." I'm not going to count our 2ed to...

I bought this a few days ago and as yet haven't had time to absorb the entire work but here's an overview (and the inevitable comparison to UA.) Chapter One: Character Options I like the concept of Heroic Merits and Tragic Flaws (whereby each respectively helps balance characters with very...

Let's hope the artwork is better than what appeared in CW (which was in general far below the standard Wayne Reynolds set in S&F).

I DM a group of 9 PCs + 1 cohort + 1 henchman + 1 animal companion. I'm also a huge fan of throwing hordes of vile beasties at the party. Now normally this combination would spell disaster but here's what we do to make combat flow nicely (most of the time). You'll find it pretty much agrees...