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    When your significant other resents gaming

    My buddy's wife caught him gaming once and oh boy was there trouble! Now a days he tells her we're going to the bar to get drunk, and if she think's he's lying then he goes to the backup plan and admits he was watching porn at his friend's place, that seems to be the lesser of the two evils...
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    One Thousand Ways to Freak Out Your Players

    633) "Shut up curse you or I'll run you through! OK that's settled, back in character." 634) Eat all the jellybeans. 635) "The first rule of our game sessions is no one talks about our game sessions..."
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    One Thousand Ways to Freak Out Your Players

    585) "No! We can play when you guys are finished making those keychains. We gotta pay for this operation somehow. Now quit whining and get back to work!" 586) The Miserable Cubicle. 'nuff said. 587) Let Nylarlathotep play. ;) 588) Introduce the Dragonstar tm campaign! 589) Be a "Chaotic...
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    One Thousand Ways to Freak Out Your Players

    571) "Dress up" your players. To be fair, allow them "casual days" or "hawaiian shirt days."
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    One Thousand Ways to Freak Out Your Players

    568) Keep your players in line with some "tough love." I hurt you guys 'cause I care... Now don't make me use that stick again. 569) Dice rollin' off the table. That's a paddlin'. 570) TPK! YES! YES! Who's your daddy!
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    Rahasia

    Thanks. I have a copy of the old basic module and was thinking of converting it for 3ed any suggestions on where one could find any conversion stuff?
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    How to Ruin Your Campaign

    Ruining your campaign, meathod #45623: Let Nylarathotep play. :D
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    One Thousand Ways to Freak Out Your Players

    549) There is never any reason to argue with the players, waving the gun around will pretty much get them to see things your way. 550) Eat continuously through out the entire session. End every line with "gotta bulk up"
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    One Thousand Ways to Freak Out Your Players

    469) "Not bad, Not bad. You guys should make another level for this wad of Xp, but I'm sort of disappointed. You could have gotten so much more. Let's see... You missed the blind beggar, the shopkeep, the tavern owner, not to mention all the horses you left alive! There was the two serving girls..."
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    Looking for suggestions on books and anime

    I can't believe no one has mentioned Ghost in The Shell or The Legend of Lemnear . Don't let your kids see the second one. If you are playing D&D and haven't read Tolkien you should be ashamed of yourself. I don't have to go on a tirade here do I? Good. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is...
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    How do I turn Powergamers into Roleplayers?

    Do you have the spell Powergame to RolePlay? No? Sounds like you're SOL. My suggestion is to find different players. If they are accusing you of trying to "Win" they are missing the point of the game. Failing that my advice is to start drinking heavily so you don't have money and time to...
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    Problems with Return to Temple of Elemental Evil

    Don't worry, didn't read it. Just thought I'd move it to the front again. What am I saying!? It don't matter, I'm dead!
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    One Thousand Ways to Freak Out Your Players

    448) "So you draw your sword, the ork draws his H&K Mp-5! Ooooh! you take 93 points of damage. You're dead?! I don't know why you guys keep using swords and stuff..." 449) Three words: Tactical Nuclear Weapons. 450) "No, I believe you're wrong on that count, Jar-Jar makes that movie." 451)...
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    One Thousand Ways to Freak Out Your Players

    405) You want the twenty-sider? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TWENTY-SIDER! 406) Coach your players' die rolling, convince them that, yes, with some practice, they can get better results.
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    One Thousand Ways to Freak Out Your Players

    383) Repeatedly lament that your d12 doesn't get enough use. 384) Use the "Pop-a-dice" from Trouble for all your rolls. 385) When organizing the session ask your player's wives/girlfriends to join in on the play. (Works best if wife/girlfriend thinks that player is doing something like going...
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    One Thousand Ways to Freak Out Your Players

    357) Take a page from Gygax's "101 ways to kill characters": Sphere of Annihilation traps. (You've all lost someone in there.)
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    Anyone play Basic anymore? (and other questions)

    The first time playing that solo adventure in the Basic set is some of the most formative (and probably one of the better rules teachers) TSR ever put out. Play it if you can find willing accomplices man. I would but all of my gaming group are stuck on 3rd Ed. It sucked that you couldn't...
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    Rahasia

    Is there any plans to convert some of the old D&D modules to 3rd Ed? One of my favorites was Rahasia, an extremely well written one. How about Return to the Tomb of Horrors, Temple of Death, or Where Chaos Reigns?
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    One Thousand Ways to Freak Out Your Players

    Oh, I thought this was a humorous thread, sorry. But anyways... 341) Have them encounter a "Nilbog". Some of you laugh, some need an explanation. See 1st Ed MM2. 342) End each session with: "Man am I ever kicking your guys butts!" 343) On the same vein, have a non-playing accomplice come in...
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    One Thousand Ways to Freak Out Your Players

    310) Every time one of the PCs do something in excellent character say: "Yeah thats just like that scene in the D&D movie you know..." Proceed with lengthy description of scene from movie. ** 311) Crush a die with a sledgehammer when it gives you a bad roll as an "example" to the other dice...
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