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    What attracted you to D&D?

    I'm 47 and in 1977 it was the only game in town....
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    I hate Tolkien: suggest a fantasy setting.

    I double Or tripple) the Jack Vance "Dying Earth" stuff.Very fantasy yet very different
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    Party creation instead of character creation?

    I thought I posted this already but..... The party is a 3 dimentional representaion of a 4 dimentioanal concept.In reallity the party is GAKL or Greater Adventuring Karmic line.When they first meet they are instantly drawn together,very similar to love at first sight,they realize that they are...
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    Western / Oriental Campaign themes

    There is a great old western w/Charles Broson and Toshiro Mufuni called 'The Red Sun' (beware of PG nudlty)
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    A Most Unusual Adventure

    Ok lets see if I can tell this adventure w/o any R rated words. A female space whale crashed on my game world,she was in heat causing earthquakes. The PCs found her mate from whom they needed to harvest....seed.They had to fight though her magic defences and crabs to um....fertalize her .keep...
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    DM's: How many PC's do you kill per campaign?

    In the 25 real years Ive run the same campaign,this has changed drasticly,originaly I killed 2 pcs in 3 sessions,now in my mellow years Im down to about 2-3 per year,if that
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    How does fame affect your characters?

    I run a very low-level world so that when the pcs reach about 5th,they have enterered a realm where they are known and talked about widely because the theme of the game is always world saving, Mostly this means that they can expect a fair amount of help from Good clerics and wizards,, who will...
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    How have you made ogres more interesting?

    I gave them special armor to fit human babies into the chest to skeeze out the pcs,one of my players was VERY upset by this personally,I thought they were just being evil(the practice soread to the skavan and gnolls,but babies are hard to come by)
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    Fantasy Newspapers

    I did this for a while but it got to be too big a headache as to distribution,my world has the printing press
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    What keeps your party together?

    Ok lets see if I can simply explain this: The pcs in my world are a 3 dimentional representation of a 4th dimentional concept. They are the Greater Adveturing Kharmic Line (or GAKL) In actual fact they are all forms(or avatars if you will) of a single 4th dimentional being. This is why they have...
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    Could you play in a fantasy world without clerics

    The old Dark Sun setting was similar to this idea,its clerics were elemental not god driven. I personally like the whole dietes and cleric thing and would probably not run w/out it but I dont think I would mind playing in it.
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    Worst Stat Rolls You Have Seen

    One guy in my game rolled straight 11s.He called himself Doe the Dull.He played the whole game blank faced saying nothing..I killed him w/ blue lightning from above at the end and he was very happy To never worry about re-rolling I let players trade in their 2 HIGHEST stats for 2 16s. never a...
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    What Would Your Campaign/Setting's Inspirational Reading List Be?

    Lovecraft,Lovecraft,Lovecraft(I call it D&D but is it really COC) any Conan,R E Howard(Hack, hack,hack the evil wizard) Thone of Bone, Brian McNaughton ( a blend of Fantasy and erotic horror, a fantasic book but very raunchy and gory,very adult) Twighlight Zone(for wierdness and plane hopping)
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    Help Me Populate My World!

    Clensing Ages ago this land was a verdunt forrest under the sway of a powerful bunch of elves. The elves were engaged in a quest for more and more powerful magiks.When a great disaster destroyed the vast forrest and turned it into a vast desolit wasteland filled w/twisted creatures born of...
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    The Official Welcome Thread - Version 2.0

    Hi,I got the message that I joined and never posted so here I am Im 47 years old and have been running the same Dnd game for 25 real life years,I play low level heavily influanced by HP Lovecraft,Call of Cthulu, I also run V&V and Gurps
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