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The products do different things, so neither is better. I own both products. I have used CC2 a number of times, mostly for overland and city maps, with a dungeon here and there. I have never used DJ in game. The DJ idea was good, but I found the cost for ink to prohibitive and I already have...

I've played in such a campaign, more than once, and would do so again. I've occupied both the role of leader and follower. Sometimes the leader makes good decisions and listens and sometimes they don't; but in the instances where the supreme authority ended up being a supreme ditz they ended...

Escape from Butcher Bay, d20 style. Start them off as inmates in a prison planet, where they end up taking over a transport (or whatever ship you want) to get off the rock. This could easily be fun for a few levels and give you a chance to play NPCs who would be a huge pain in the rear end...

See what the other 5 people at the table think and discuss it with them; maybe it's just you. If it isn't just you, and you want to keep her, define what she is doing that is bugging and present it to her and see if you can't work it out. Put many points into diplomacy on this one, because...

I'm with Crothian here, at least 98% of the time. We don't forbid it but I play with a group that understands that it is a group game, and PvP ends up with someone dead and usually splits the party (ie campaign over). However, it has happened, has made in-character sense and was what should...

Actually I'd like to see: Greyhawk campaign set done nicely, as mentioned above. More "menace/group" books for d20Modern/Future/Apoc/Cyber. Good, creative monster manuals are always useful.

[/Troll On] D&D 4.0 [/Troll Off]

I ran a 1E game a year or so again and cut down on prep time by, 1) Using a local big city. I used existing real world maps, online data of current crime rates, real politicians as my NPCs, building layouts as they already exist. 2) Making the adventures semi-topical. For example; had a...

If they create good fiction, console games, computer games, and board games and keep up high quality in the RPG field; and make money doing it then of course they should. But what they SHOULD do isn't what I WANT them to do. I want them to be profitable and stay in business, but I could give a...

I played the AU system for about a year, I don't have AE but figure it is very similar. We didn't find anything with the mechanics that were outright terrible, and I don't remember creating any new house rules for it. What I did find is that it takes a good effort by the DM to understand and...

I'm with Dagger75 on this one. I play D&D all the time, I purposely stay away from it at Cons and play games I've either never heard of but sound interesting, or ones I've been itching to try out.

Put the dice down and back away. Pump up your Use Magic Device and buy a bunch of Magic Missle Wands--the cure for bad dice rolling--and you get the added bonus of the greatest AC bonus ever, not being in the front ranks.

I usually ask the players to figure it out. I give a general outline of the type of game and then I ask them to create character classes that gel and backgrounds that won't disallow them from working together. Other ideas: Reservoir Dogs Group is brought together through common NPC to do a...

Planescape is a great idea for letting you try out all your D&D worlds. Modified Spelljamming works too. If you're playing modern, a time-travel/parallel universe game will also let you play around with all those settings. The method I use is to share DM duties with one other person. He...

The DM I play with loves time-travel, and he's done it different ways--but the mechanic I enjoyed the most was non-movable gates as mentioned above. His gates happened to be at the top of a number of towers spaced through the world. The gates were made up of (4) mirrors, which when turned in a...

If it is only a few CRs then AS IS. If I think they are really going to get their hat handed to them, then I'll drop hints about how tough the opponents are. Usually the hints are through NPCs or by seeing the after-affects of where their prey has been.

I agree with the statement above, but I do think it would be useful to have some of the Ronin products marked as definite should owns--as I know there are products in there that belong in the category. By not having them in there people may use this list and overlook products that would help...

I decide on a character class as needed by the party, roll scores, and then dream up the personality from ideas that also fit the scores. But before any of that, I first talk to the GM, no matter what the game, to figure out the type of campaign and the type of characters that would fit into...

I had a 1970 Volvo 242. The dual carburetors caused me nothing but problems until I finally replaced it with a single. It wasn't my first car though, that was a 1976 Toyota Corolla that cost $300. Ran great, was rust colored which was good since some of it was rusting, lost the liner in the...

I second that on Giant Lore, bought it during last years $5 sale and used it right away.