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    Grabbing Your Players' Attenion and Keeping It- How to do it?

    I'm going to "me too". I think the switching is a big part of the problem, and the first thing to do is to move out the extra characters as quickly as possible. On the game store front, I've been playing some attention to the tendencies of some of our in-store locals to be distracted or...
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    [DMing style] Semi-freeform??

    It's fun, but it's a lot more work for you. Looking everything up all the time is a non-trivial task. It also removes one of the pleasures of being a D&D player, which is tweaking your character along from level to level. This sort of thing tends to work best with a stat-light system like...
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    Grabbing Your Players' Attenion and Keeping It- How to do it?

    Have you tried running shorter sessions of 2-3 hours? Those might be more focused. (Or you might get nothing at all done -- in which case you can go back to running the 4-6 hour games.) yours,
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    [OT] My first catalog request from Death Row

    Hey, all our days are numbered. Several of our customers have died in the last few years -- some after long and terminal illnesses. It sucks. But I'm slowly learning how to appreciate them while I have the chance. It still sucks, though. yours,
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    [OT] My first catalog request from Death Row

    Hey Derek, We've never had a request from Death Row, but we've fielded our share of orders from prisons. (Actually, I'm doing one this week.) In general, they've gone very smoothly. As someone said earlier in the thread, rules vary from system to system. We generally get the number of the...
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    To kill or not to kill (the party.) That is the question!

    I vote for "Smoke them like kippers." If you really must be kind, then kill them one at a time and give the party a chance to run away after each death. Your guy sounds decadent enough that he might not feel the need to wipe them out. I could see him telling them, "Flee! Do not cast away your...
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    What's your favorite local game store?

    I believe that branch closed a couple of years ago. There is still a branch in West Springfield, MA (note that this is a different company from the one in Austin, TX), and I'm told they've added a LAN and some other new features. However, I haven't gotten down there in about six months so I...
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