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The CR is the level for PCs. What you will want to try and do is create encounters where the ECL is high and the CR is low, otherwise, 4 3rd level PCs will end up being a CR 7 encounter if you use the DMG for a guideline, and obviously they are nowhere near that powerful normally. But, let's...

Hmmm, not sure why everyone would go running to the husband when their problem is with the wife... Have you tried talking to her? Asking her if she is having fun? Asking her what could be changed to make it more fun for her? You said she is your roommate, surely you can approach her alone...

My guess is that they will balk or quit if you try to force them to DM... it takes work to come up with interesting adventures and they sound like they are a bit on the whiny side to begin with. Adventuring should be fun. You should definitely download OpenRPG (it's free) and play in a...

If I were going to play something that was useful as a healer / buffer, I would probably go with a wizard or sorcerer that worshipped a god of healing and took the arcane disciple feat. That would allow you access to the healing domain spells. Then not only could you heal, but you could cast...

A 6 player, level two party should slaughter 3 wolves... that seems right, but they should also kill rather easily most CR 3 encounters, assuming they are awake. Try throwing some "easy" opponents at them. Like have goblins, warrior 3rd level, riding on those wolves. That would be 3 cr 1...

As far as I know, there isn't an official "becoming a deity" path to take... What I have seen used for NPCs is : 1) Killing a deity and taking their portfolio by force, not a simple thing to do... 2) Being promoted by a more powerful deity to divine rank 0 or 1 in exchange for service, and...

I like the pathfinder change to D&D 3.5 where they give you unlimited 0th level spells. This is very nice at low levels. Of course I don't play pathfinder, so I don't get this benefit, but it struck me as a clever addition to the rules. Who wants a character that can cast 3 spells and then...

Good stuff... really good stuff... especially the 4th bullet. Reminds me of an old CSM I had who once said it is easier to drag soldiers along with you than to push them in front of you. He also said there were no bad squads, just bad squad leaders, your mileage may vary on that one :)...

I dislike FR for a couple of reasons. 1st) Players have all read the books, so whenever you try and change something, they all complain about it. The players think it is their world and not yours. 2nd) The world is too overly developed. If you try and put something different in, it...

I once ran a game for 6 players and ended up with 11! I was overwhelmed and under prepared for that many, it was online as most of my games are, and I did the best I could to keep it going, but wasn't able to. I tried doubling monsters but it didn't scale quite right. Best thing, IMO, is to...

I will usually let the situation dictate the tactics, sometimes it is better to retreat and come again with reinforcements, sometimes it is better to just go for it. The one time I will fight EVERY fight, no matter how ridiculous, is when the DM is making every encounter over powering. At...

I am running a political campaign where the PCs are important figures in the kingdom, so I started them at much higher levels. There are a couple pitfalls you have to watch out for if you do this. First, you will get a ton of munchkin types trying to make impossible characters that dip into...

When you play online, you don't really know who you are playing with, I can only hope they are teen agers and going through a phase and are not emotionally retarded adults. And no, I am not implying the people you play with are emotionally retarded, I am saying that the players I have that...

This is a very good observation. I have a friend that DMs a game where he is upset his players are becoming more and more withdrawn. He has a style of DMing where most of the encounters are more powerful than the party and seek to humiliate or put down the party. He tends to take a "me vs...

Amen to that. As a DM I absolutely HATE IT when a player wants to romance an NPC, because 99 out of a 100 times it is some teenage boy who in real life is scared of girls and thinks it is cool to get laid in a game of D&D. I am not homophobic, but the idea of a 40+ year old guy having cyber...

Hi, my name is Dan, and I am a gamer... I started gaming in 1977. The dreaded AD&D 1st edition came out then, I was hooked. For years all I could do with my spare time was game, it was a life style as much as a calling. In 1984 I joined the US Army and they briefly broke me of the gaming...

Would other things besides a donkey/horse be considered a mule? How about a donkey/dragon - I actually had a player want one, and he was quite indignant when I said I wouldn't do that to the poor female donkey. To which he replied, it was the dragon that was female, so I let him have it.

I don't mind making characters at all, since I have heroforge and a 3.5, low level character takes about 10 minutes to make for me. So let me take this chance to send some respect out to the good folks that made hero forge, it made/makes 3.5 wonderful. As for backgrounds and descriptions, I...

Wow, am I the only one that liked to dual class in 1st and 2nd editions? I had a couple dual class human fighter / wizards that were wonderful. I also liked the wizard/thief elf multi class combo using a short sword to backstab. All of my old wizard characters could fight with some kind of a...

I use openRPG, which is free. It has the maps and dice roller and stuff you need for organizing and running combats. 3 of the games I am in use skype as well for talking and role play. This has its ups and downs as far as I am concerned. With pure typing, everyone gets "heard", with skype...