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I don't think I was a dick, though one of DMs probably does. The reason being I argued a rule with him. Not "My interpretation is better than your interpretation" but the actual wording of the rule. Given that I was reading out of the 3.5 Player's Handbook and he was doing it from (faulty)...

I'm one of the beta/playtesters and I can honestly say that was sucked me in was the world that Jonathan and Todd have build. It's different enough to be really cool without being so far out there that you don't know what you're doing. Something we as a group have tried to do is give the...

I'm with Piratecat. Honestly, I don't really care for even more bookkeeping than the game already calls for. My PF group is playing Rise of the Runelords and we killed a monster (no spoilers) and between us all, we carted her body back to an armorer/crafter. One player got a sweet set of...

Shoggoths. A Shoggoth on the Roof

I'm occasionally ashamed of other gamers but I'm not ashamed of being a gamer. I don't advertise that I'm a gamer, but if it or something similar comes up in conversation, I'm all about it. I find it funny talking to people who have only played Skyrim or WoW and when I don't play, but know...

Dagon.

A few sessions ago in our Pathfinder game, I couldn't find a mini/cutout that fit the size I needed, so I grabbed a player's Cthulhu dice bag and set it down on the battle mat. It fit perfectly and was a little creepy, given the size of the bag compared to the player's minis. In my 3.5...

Vampire would work. A Devourer would also fit the bill because a Devourer has lots its soul, which you could equate to your heroine 'severing his thread.' Instead of looking for his soul, he's searching for his destiny. Or her. A Bodak might also work. In 3.5, anyway, bodaks were described...

I think it depends on what kind of villain you want. While I understand what people are saying about making the villain sympathetic, and I think that can be used well, I go the other way. I want a villain who is so far removed from being human that I have absolutely no qualms about...

This here. In my 3.5 DMG and PHB, and now my Pathfinder Core Rulebook, I got some of those sticky flags that I can write on and have them for each section (Races, Classes, Domains, Bloodlines, Magic, Combat, etc.). It makes reference faster and since I'm the only one who has a dead tree copy...

I think it depends on what you're trying to accomplish and how you're going about it. I use whatever method I think is appropriate to keep the story going forward. Sometimes it's a die roll, sometimes it's me stepping in and saying, 'Okay, you talk to the old guy and he gives you the Magic...

My longest-played PC was a Dwarven Cleric that started in 3.0 and went from 1st to 3rd level before that group broke up. I brought him back as a DMNPC (the good kind) during my 3.5 campaign and then he switched between PC and NPC as we switched off DM's. He went from 3rd to 24th level in that...

I think in my Pathfinder group, we have maybe...3 house rules? Maybe a couple more. This is what I can remember. 1) Character creation: all standard "adventuring gear" (backpack, bedroll, tent, etc.) is already owned, so they don't need to buy that stuff. 2) Flanking is when two characters...

I voted 4-6 hours, because being unemployed gives me a lot of free time. Gaming - 7 hours every two weeks Preparation - About an hour per week. I'm not the full-time DM and we're starting a different system, but I do a readthrough of the stuff I might run from Adventureaweek.com Reading RPG...

Remembered another one that my player's created. I was running the module Barrow of the Forgotten King (a 3.5 module) for my Pathfinder group. There's a water weird in there and you can either fight her or negotiate with her. In the module, it states there is a sack of gems on the floor. If...

I voted limits. As a DM I think a lot of that has to do with rules bloat from 3E and just all of the options that were available. Add that to a couple of powergamers from that stage of the game and things got out of hand quickly. We're now playing Pathfinder and I've limited things to the...

You've said that you guys are all friends, but honestly, this kid sounds like he's being a dick and doing it on purpose. You said that everybody in the group (at least that's how it sounded to me) is against the way that you're DM'ing because they want to play by a different set of rules. If...

I wasn't aware that the GM had to fit into one particular role. Funny how a role-playing game might require someone to fill more than just one role. I have never, ever played only 'Captain' or 'Navigator.' It's always both of those and more in the same session or, more likely, even the same...

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I love this story. My own Pathfinder party is 1 DM (rotating), three guys and one woman. The guys are all into interesting character choices and roleplaying and all that. The woman? Fighters. Barbarians. That's it. She loves combat and exploration but hates roleplaying. That really threw...