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1st level for me. Nothing like the feeling of starting a new campaign and having that sense of danger and discovery on the first adventure.

Not so quick aside... I think the ideal solution to the issues raised in this thread would not to publish more adventures, but for some company to do a Dungeon style magazine that focused on the rest of the D20 market. Adventures based in the various settings published by companies other than...

Quick aside. Of my current gaming group, half of them started on Palladium or White Wolf. I've actually met White Wolf LARPers who've never evern heard of D&D.

I wouldn't change a thing. As mentioned before, certain people have different tastes when it comes to epic level play. The fear of the local ruler and his constabulary is a "low level" issue in my games. When the PCs reach level 15 or so, they should BE the local ruler, IMO. When they reach...

One of my first long term 3.0 campaigns was a half-dragon campaign (with one half-orc werebear as an exception). But, that didn't mean the campaign world was full of half-dragons...quite the opposite and one of the main themes of the campaign, and a phrase the PCs grew to despise, was "We don't...

As an aside...I've DMed the first few levels of Epic...I've also played Rifts. I enjoyed both. Different styles and different strokes for different folks. Yes, play balance is an "issue" for the ELH and for Rifts, but if you and you're players are having fun, who cares? Personally, I enjoy a...

Pretentiousness Wow...um...you know...who cares?!?! I play D&D, I also play White Wolf's games, I also play Palladium. I enjoy all of them for different reasons. That original quote is, as others have said, not the attack it was made out to be and later comments by the original poster seem...

D&D Angst... This and the Drow thread have suggested something to me...a lot of people seem to simply be burnt out on most of the D&D staples period. I wonder why that is. I have yet to see anything about D&D as overused or tired or anything else. I think, for me, what it boils down to is...

Although Raistlin and Caramon are identical twins, their physical differences would still necessitate different actors. Raistlin is frail and physically thin and unhealthy. Caramon is a big strapping lad. The proper application of make-up can "make-up" for a lack of twin-ness between actors...

Love them Drow...I've changed their "origin" story in my campaign though...Lolth, Laduguer, and other underdark deities were good once...they all volunteered to take their followers to the underdark to protect a deep dark underground secret...ages later, the reasons behind their exile to the...

I've recently tried very hard to not start a new campaign every week like I used to do because I had so many campaign ideas. That being said, there's still quite a few I'd like to do before I die. My Stargate SG1/Urban Arcana crossover homebrew D20 Modern setting, linked (on a cosmology level)...

I roll random treasure most of the time, usually allowing the PCs to see the rolls (I also let them see my combat rolls, so when the dice kill them they know it was the dice's fault). I also custom craft major NPCs with PC level gold and buy their magic items according to what they'd use...

Council of Wyrms I've had a pipe dream ever since that boxed set came out of having the setting redone with "normal" PCs...adventuring in the shadow of the Council.

I think the core rules assume, and I certainly assume in my campaigns, that characters spend down time maintaining their own equipment...mending small breaks and rips, polishing armor, sharpening weapons, etc. That and, at least in my campaigns, the PCs would rather be saving the world than...

Home brewing... I've done this twice. One was an attempt at a new RPG, the other was an amalgam of D&D and the World of Darkness...we called Darkness & Dragons. Why did you design new rules? The first was an attempt an online partner and I made at creating a publishable new RPG, in the mid...

Dragonlance and breaking the contract... I think a series of books holds to the same contract principle as a single book. The first few books, you learn to expect certain things. Again, breaking the contract in a good way that takes the series in an interesting new direction can work, but...

Taking turns outside of combat Regardless of the group size, something I try to do in non-combat situations is to go around the group (we sit around the living room so we don't do the usual table thing) one at a time and ask them what they are doing. This gives the normally shy and quiet types...

Some Clarification... What I'm mainly interested in is actually writing something along these lines, although this would be more of a compilation project than an actual writing. I've had a lot of ideas lately of what I would want to actually use at the game table....these two ideas are the...

First off, I'm new to posting, but have been lurking for several months now. Second off, I'm not sure if I'm in the right forum for this. I am woefully unfamiliar with the PDF market. Does there exist a product that is essentially a big book of NPCs? What Enemies and Allies should've been...

My wife and I have a ten list...ten celebrities that we could...ahem...and not get in trouble for. The list fluctuates of course, but the following are the current top three (both genders included because, well, just cause). Females Drew Barrymore (manages to avoid Hollywood anorexia and...