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Agreed. :) I think most any decent GM wants players to become involved... otherwise you are just orating a story to them aren't you? I don't like Gnaut at all (the character played by best friend Marco, who did the butchering in the swamp). I think he's a self interested mercenary bastard, but...

Okay, I can see that. Thank you for the explanation. And I do understand your position, I just don't stand side by side with you on it.

That's a very valid question. I think it's because I love telling story's, and when it comes right down to it my players and I have very similar values. They play different characters than I ever would were I on that side of the sheild, but that just makes it more interesting. This was an...

I stopped playing AD&D2E after running several campaigns and just gave up on D&D in general. I moved on to GURPS, Earthdawn, Shadowrun, and a few other game systems. I was playing Earthdawn heavily when 3E came out and a friend of mine purchased a copy of the 3.0 PHB for me when it hit the...

You suggested that I needed to seek psychiatric help. If you weren't intending on being insulting, you vernacular certainly was. Be that as it may, I'll sweep it under the carpet as it doen't do anyone any good anywhere else. Yep, I was upset. I understand pieces of why I was so mad, but...

Suggestion I play 3.0, and I also interpret the rules on suggestion that if you are suggested to do something that is immediatly and obviously harmful to yourself or others you are concerned about that breaks the spell (id. attack your friends, throw yourself on your sword). Recent situation...

Gnomes in my game are about as opposite as they can be from the silly portrayals in the many novels and suppliments from TSR. I like the idea of them being wise ancient creatures who have endured the ages by staying out of the way of the larger folk and through deep arcane knowledge. I play...

This thread is getting so long I'm not sure anymore all of what I've explained, but I will answer your questions. (Note: the below quote has been modified by inserting #'s for ease of responding... 1) The village was threatened by an Undead Sorceress who had multiple motives. She had gained...

Hehehe This is true. Overwhelming force had in fact been sent into the woods to find this group as what the Zhents were after was the Sword of the Dales which the group was carrying. This relic would, if in Zhent hands, lend credibility to the man they had set on the throne of Daggerfalls and...

That was rather unnecessarily insulting. I'm assuming everyone here is being honest, otherwise this conversation is rather pointless... and I'm not sure it hasn't started to get there already since its obvious that few opinions are going to be swayed. I wouldn't say your harsh justice was any...

Eh? How are the captives allies going to find out about the PC's plans unless the PC's are silly enough to act like Cartoon Villans and tell them all their plans before tying them up and tossing them into the shack? My players are rather bright, unlike archtypical cartoon villians.

I don't collect action figures. I have serviceable collection of minatures used for tabletop play in D&D when its nessesary, but thats about it. That being said, I was at Spencers today and came across these Dragon action figures that simply took my breath away...

I'm not sure it will help, as folks here have very strong opinions on the subject matter at hand, but let me inject into the conversation my take on evil, and remind everyone again that these people are long times friends of mine and long time players. I see a lot of the same arguments being...

You actually have very valid points here, but your anger damages your argument. Chill man. :)

This is an interesting take MoonZar. For the sake of the game group, and due to the bad feelings the situation engendered on the part of all parties involved, dropping the whole situation was the most appropriate action at the time. A lot of good advice has been offered here, as well as some...

Just to be legalistic. D20 D&D actually is D&D. More so than AD&D as a matter of pure fact just because the lawsuit was settled and the name was legally reinstated by WoTC. Pointing this out has nothing really to do with what this thread is about, but its an interesting footnote. :)

I don't wish to take this thread into discussions on the merits of the death penalty. I recognize that there are very strong opinions on the matter and don't feel this is the correct forum for that conversation. I just wanted other folks views on what happened in a RPG session that I ran a year...

Well, thank you for all the thoughtful commentary on the situation, and I'd like to remind everyone that this happened a bit over a year ago and everyone is still playing now who was playing then in my campiagn. I'm very lucky in that its incredibly rare for me to loose a player from my games...

I use alignment violations, and my players know that. So between you and I and this thread that is just a play style issue. I'm the GM, I set the tone of the game and present the world as I create it and am required to interpret the actions and and desires of the players involved. The players...

Okay, I can see that this is your opinion and accept that. They were in no position at all to take the captives back to civilization for justice. They were on a timetable to save a Gnome village and knew there were other Zhent patrols out to get them. There was no discussion about any of this...