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That was a good read. I haven't been to GenCon since 2009. Having a family and an unforgiving work schedule have kept me from attending. I thought about going this year (I retired in July), but tbh the housing lottery plan made me decide to skip it. I finally have the time to go to the con...

Had to take a nap after the game. This third shift schedule is wrecking my sleep pattern. Here's the update: The boys sought out a cleric of Pelor to see what could be done for poor Snik. They agreed to complete a small quest to pay the cleric to cast Speak With Dead on the corpse. The...

Actually, we had to postpone the game due to sickness and middle school soccer practice. We play today after the boys get home from school. They're all riding my son's bus home with him. I just got home from third shift, so I'll be power sleeping for around 6 hours and then running the game...

I don't have HBO, but in the books it is identified as a spear. He states it is the only way to counter the Mountain's reach. "Turned ash eight feet long, the shaft smooth, thick, and heavy. The last two feet of that was steel: a slender leaf shaped spearhead narrowing to a wicked spike. The...

We don't get to play again until next Saturday 1/24. Two of the boys have a Scout event this weekend. When we play again I'll post an update to this thread to let everybody know how it turns out.

Thanks for the replies everybody. You've given me some great ideas on how to move on from here. I think I learned from my mishandling of the situation. 11 year old boys see the game differently than I do, and I'm going to try to keep that in mind as I run it for them. They saw the kobold...

So I've finally gotten a chance to play 5E. I'm running a game for my son and two of his friends. All three boys are 11 years old. I haven't played in a long time, and the boys have never played any RPG before. I have struggled a bit trying to learn the game at the same time I'm teaching it...

I would be thrilled if they stick with the plan to re-use the original map. Thanks for the link. I had an Amazon credit and just downloaded the first book in the series based on the information from that panel. Maybe the novels will get me in the right frame of mind to campaign in the Realms...

I never followed the Realms much, but I did get an awesome 4 part poster map from Dragon or Dungeon magazine back in the 3.X days. My understanding was that 4E made that map obsolete with the merging of Abeir and Toril. When you say that they have been split apart, does that mean that my old...

I think that the focus on social and intellectual solutions has to be something the DM creates in the narrative, and not something dictated by the ruleset. If the DM wants social resolutions to be the norm in his or her game, then he or she can set the negative consequences for using force...

If it helps, I read an interview of Jennifer Lawrence that explained that for this movie they used a body suit and makeup instead of just body makeup and strategic latex. She said it reduced her time in the makeup trailer considerably.

Remember that pic from the 1E DMG that showed a trapped room filling with water and a skeleton rising up? That kind of scenario, where the environment is hazardous to the PCs but doesn't hinder the undead can be very scary if well described. Many types of undead could be described as...

Based on all the information available I think I've figured out this new way to make PCs without CharGen in the box. Mike Mearles will come to your location when you call for him and make your character for you! This will not require the internet or a phone, but will require a short piece of...

Thanks for the response. I was thinking of using the Horned Society as the Greyhawk version of the Cult of the Dragon. The 3E Gazatteer is set after the Greyhawk Wars, so that's the time period I was planning to use. There's a blurb somewhere that leaves the status of the Horned Society in...

So I'm excited for the new release, pre-ordered the core books and starter set, but I'm hedging on the two new adventures. Based on the descriptions, they seem to be built from the ground up for the Forgotten Realms. I know that many people love that campaign setting, but it just doesn't ring...

The pics are too small for me to see. Can anybody tell if there is any "Forgotten Realms" trade dress on the adventures? They look like generic D&D adventures, but obviously they are specific to the Forgotten Realms setting.

Page B29 of my Moldvay book says "Hit Dice are also the level of the monster and the dungeon level on which it is most commonly found. In general a monster's level equals its number of hit dice, ignoring any pluses or minuses." It goes on to say that "if a monster has several special powers...

So I've been putting together a B/X campaign for my son, and I re-discovered the advice that dungeon level and monster level(hit dice) should usually correspond. I was just wondering how closely you follow that advice in your present day game, and if you or your DM followed it back in the olden...

My name is Jay, and I have an (edition) gambling problem. Its like pulling the handle one more time on a slot machine, or buying one more lottery ticket. Maybe this time I'll win big. I would pre-order the core books right now if they were on Amazon. I've looked over the playtest packets, but...

I just downloaded the Rules Cyclopedia and started giving it a read. I started with Moldvay Basic and Expert, and never got the Mentzer boxes before moving on to AD&D. Was weapon mastery an option from Mentzer rules? Was it a popular option? I may be looking back through the eyes of my 12...