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My group was 3rd level when they were ambushed while trying to make their way to a dwarven hall, rumored to have been part of a major gold vein worth MILLIONS. They had set out from the east (homebrew setting so geographical reference may vary) at one of the PCs' request to help a contact and...

If you've been playing for that long (I've only been at it for 15 - since 3e) then go for it! My original quote was really centered on the permanence of tattoos and to ensure that whoever gets one should do a good bit of thinking before putting something that (used to be) was going to be there...

My group plays every other week for about 4-6 hours per session. Over the course of 5 sessions they are halfway between 3rd-4th level. To me this feels much more like the right pace than what I had done previously in campaigns, be it meeting only once a month (you'd better be willing to write...

I ran the capture/escape scenarios with a group this past weekend, and probably had one of the best sessions ever out of the fifteen years I've been running games. It could have been simply because we were all in a good mood and were enjoying the suspense, but here's where I broke away from the...

This is why I voted Monk. I could see if I was running an "Oriental Adventures"-esque campaign, but it's hard for me to imagine an unarmored, unarmed (or minimally armed) martial artist type in a western medieval campaign. Sure, there may have been monasteries in my world, but they don't "fit"...

The best advice I ever received regarding tattoos - "Make sure it will not only mean something to you now, but 50 years from now." I have tattoos (lots of them), and every one of them has a very significant meaning to me to this day. If this (or any) person's love is with D&D and this will be...

Dwarves! Seriously, how could you not like the dwarves? They're crass, they hate elves, they have excessive facial hair and a short-man's complex. That about sums up why I play them...roleplaying gold. You could go so many directions with them that you'd never have to repeat! In my homebrew...

My first 5e group consisted of 5 players, with my latest group made up of "the core 4" (caster, fighter, cleric, rogue). Based on the two different campaigns that I've run in 5e there seems to be a BIG difference in that, the first group never really struggled with any of the encounters, and the...

I started with 3e, moved to 3.5, spent some time with Pathfinder, played in a couple of campaigns in 4e, and now I'm here. While there are a number of systems outside D&D that I would like to play more regularly (Trail of Cthulu, 13th Age) it's really the easiest system to find new players...

I needed a "take it or leave it" option. My favorite thing from 4e was the warlord class (I played one after a Ranger and had more fun than in any other class previously) but it was more for the "cleric that can <sort of> stand up in melee" approach rather than any other special ability or what...

I prefer to have my products not try to inject humor into the game as my group does enough of that without adding to it. I like dark and gritty adventures, plot twists and turns, surprise NPCs that show up in the game that have something to do with the PCs backgrounds, etc. However, my group...

My group is in this camp as well. When my group of players starts looking for a way to take a short/long rest we play the justification game... PCs: "Can we take a short/long rest right now? That last encounter had me use up X resources and I'm not sure we can get through another one..." GM...

aramis erak - With your group do you typically let your players go through books during the session? My group and I all agreed to keep the books available but not to actively look up rulings unless it was life/death circumstances. I do owe my players more comfortable chairs, but they have...

Jer It's funny that you mention Glitterdoom as that is what the kids will be playing next. I really ran FSF as an experiment (that I'm totally stoked about with the kids actually wanting to play) but now that they are hooked I think that we will be doing that one soon. Based on a review of the...

Hi Jer, I would recommend "The Fey Sisters' Fate" by Goodman Games. I ran it for my kids (11, 9 & 7) in a couple of sessions (8 hours total) and they had a blast with it. It's a pretty linear quest path (good for kids) and the plot is also straightforward with minimal NPC involvement. I would...

I was in the same camp with you about inspiration, and then I started giving away Reese's cups for my group to keep track of them. They haven't had one complaint about it since! Seriously, that's how we came up with keeping track of inspiration. If you ate it and didn't use it in game - no...

Civilization's lack of faith in the gods and their power has finally brought down their wrath. Prayers alone will no longer stave off the deities' retribution of the races, and with the destruction of one nation (as an example) the remaining people of the continent are looking for the (earthly)...

Wow - and here I was posting (on another thread) about whether or not I believed 8 to be too young to understand the game. I'm finding that D&D can be an awesome kids' game, depending on how you spin it for them. For instance, all of my children (11, 10, 8 & 7) are familiar with multiplayer...

So after reading this post I decided that it was time to attempt to bring my kids (11 and 8) into the fold and see if they could keep up with a D&D 5e game. Using The Fey Sisters' Fate from Goodman Games as my guide I started a weekday game with them and it was a complete success! I read through...

I used the D&D 3.5e DMG as my guide to building a world for my homebrew game. I started big, naming the continent, countries, capital cities and developing a pantheon*. From that point I began to focus on the country that I planned to start my campaign in, adding some major cities and what they...