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It sounds like you're angry, old boy. Well, don't worry -- we're angry, too. We could comiserate better if we had more details. What do you mean by overbearing etc.? I find that often the most overbearing DMs are also the most immature. I don't mean that perjoratively, but simply that it takes...

I was wondering if anyone out there knew of a strategic-level First World War game. Freeware would be nice, of course, but any game will do. I am unable to find any on the web. It may be that game designers have eschewed trench warfare to the more mobile WWII strategies, but in reading about...

Running is often the best option for a PC. However, running is terrifically unheroic. If I wanted to imaginatively re-enact the activities of an individual running away, I would play myself in the d20 Modern setting. So neither my characters nor my player's characters run away very often. It...

I know that people overuse Holocaust analogies all the time, but there is one that may apply here. There were Jews in Eastern European ghettos who were enlisted by the Nazis to help police and manage the Jewish populations of such places. In some cases, these individuals were criminals or had...

We rolled up a character for my dog once. One of our PCs needed an intelligent sidekick and, well, there was Slipper (my dog). We invited her to play and let her use her own stats. It was a disaster. She kept interrupting the narrative, licking the DM, eating the cheetos, etc. After a few...

Hey Rel, Death might be a part of life (as someone above suggested) but it never gets easy. Next time you are all sitting around the gaming table, missing Ted, pay him respects with a toast or whatever memorial suits your group. Better yet, keep one of his PCs around as an NPC -- then you don't...

Last night I finally got to the DMG 3.5 discussion of planar cosmology and I couldn't help but wonder a few things... Why are several planes taken up by unwinnable, endless battles between good and evil? If the battles can never be won, why are good and evil still fighting? Especially in that...

Ever since I heard about PCs "falling in love" or having "in-game" relationships with one another or NPCs, I've been a bit bewildered about the mechanics of it. Do players have to roleplay tender moments?: "I try to unlatch Sha'ira's bronze brazier" (DC 20); "Hey, *thats* not a wand of...

Ah, yes. "Reason" is a fantastic studio program and since there is "Reason II" out there, obtaining the original for cheap should be no sweat. Although it is more information than you probably need, one of Reason's limitations is that you can't incorporate outside "plugins" into it, which means...

I hate to be so self-indulgent, but I can't contain myself. I have just managed to acquire (by trading away 7 Nova "Lost Worlds" books) a copy of the original Avalon Hill game: Titan, the Monster Fantasy Slugathon Wargame I love the Kinzia card game "Titan" that came out a few years ago...

I believe that 3.5 is better than plain old 3, but now that I am $60 poorer and forced to sell my old books on Ebay, I can't honestly say that I have obtained $60 more fun for my purchases. That is a cruel sort of calculation when half of the fun of the game (for me) is simply having the...

With all due respect to previous posters, I disagree that this type of thing will cost you "big bucks". As an electronic studio musician who has basically scrounged my stuff together from scratch while paying for grad school, I have a couple of recommendations: 1. Cool Edit Pro was (I believe)...

I think first level is best because if they are new players they aren't yet sick to *death* of chopping through the obligatory goblins/kobolds/giant rats that invariably populate first level encounters. Personally, I never get sick of hordes of goblins, but kobolds? Ick. Boring. Giant rats...

Darth, If you mean what he hopes you mean, Jacc enjoys being yoinked very much and frequently indulges in said behavior himself. As for moving about from place to place (including between campaign worlds) he prefers to ride on a golden palanquin, held aloft by his fellow PCs. However, due to...

Although recognizing the dissappointment of many of the ladies on the board at not getting a chance to visualize his earthly splendor, Jacc Swinn begs that they withhold their tears -- he is still the same old gorgeous, lovable Jacc he's always been. In fact, his sudden (if brief) burst in...

If you are new to the DC metro area do yourself a favor: avoid Northern Virginia. It is a congested mess. I personally prefer the congested mess of Maryland. Plus, Maryland fought against slavery in the Civil War. Of greater importance to this discussion, Maryland has Dream Wizards, which...

I tried to download something for $4 off the SVGames website. After several successive attempts during which their connection crashed (mine didn't), the file finally made it through. When the file finally did make it, it was in some bizarre format that my computer couldn't read (it said it was...

Hey all, Lately I've been realizing that as my D&D group has gone from 3 players to 5 players, we spend much less time actually playing the game than trying to find a time when we can all meet and play. We are all married and gainfully employed, but our "every other week" game plan tends to...

That's no blob. Its Liza Minelli in a swimsuit.

Roleplaying survival in the woods for a week with nothing but a knife would need to be juiced up pretty good or your new player will get a crash course in roleplaying shivering, running from large woodland mammals, and moaning from hunger. Still, it is probably a fairly accurate rite of passage...