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We have the "new players start at 1st level" rule too. We just had a new player jump in to a 6th level campaign a few weeks ago. His role was basically as an equipment handler for teh party. His job when trouble broke out was to stay out of the way. As a character, he witnessed the pros...

I will do my best not to derail this thread, but the fact that we use a different healing rate does directly affect the death spiral effect in our system. Here's the set up we use for healing potions and spells. • Healing is NOT instantaneous. The rate of recovery depends on the level of the...

We use the Clobbered Variant and the group really likes its effects on combat strategy. We also implement Fatigue into combat too. At 50% HP, creature becomes Fatigued unless they make a successful CON check (DC=10-CON Bonus). They must check again at 25% HP with the CON check (DC=15-Con...

I use DM Genie on my laptop and it tracks everything for me. Not only does it make DM'ing less of a headache but it allows me to focus on telling the story, not looking up stats. The other great thing is that it's completely customizable. My version of DM Genie is very modified from the...

This is the main reason I don't use CR's. My players have learned not to bite off more than they can chew, because the world around them is truly random and realistic. A wealthy baron with bottomless pockets is not going to guard his limitless wealth with a couple of 1st level warriors at the...

Generally speaking, my players initially have nothing to do with the metaplot, because they are beginning characters who wouldn't have much impact anyway. As they grow and develop their characters, they have the option to become more and more involved with the metaplot. They can work their way...

I honestly don't know if I could even prepare campaigns without a meta-plot. The way I write campaigns is timeline-based with major and minor events that the players can choose to react to, prepare for or ignore completely. I have always done my best to avoid leading my players by the nose and...

One nice feature of RPG Soundmixer is that it allows you to create many custom environments and assign them to their own key. It can make them either single play events or loops and you can change the sounds and/or background music on the fly just by hitting a single key. I'm on the waiting...

I agree with ya on those points. What I mean is, for us it's not so much how the numbers are generated, but rather the decisions we make based on the numbers that come up. When you are talking about manufactured dice, you don't mean "loaded" dice, do you? ;) :p Just kidding! :D DM...

That's the approach we took too. In fact, after 3 sessions, we went back to dice to see if the difference was as big as we were perceiving. Everyone voted to go back to diceless. The hardest part of the transition was getting a couple of the players over their superstition that it actually...

Boy, I forgot to mention our biggest houserule! We play a diceless style of gaming. I use DM Genie to manage my campaigns, and it has an autoroll feature that allows it to make all of the rolls. This has several advantages. The most important is immersion and roleplaying. With the mechanics...

Well let's see, I've adopted a few from here and WotC. Shields are all +1 above their normal AC bonus. Monks have same BAB as fighters. No "Common" language. We're using FR and each region has it's own language (Cormyrian, Dalelandian, etc.) We made a modification that gives a character a...

WOW! Great replies everyone! I really appreciate it! I was thinking about making an exchange rate too between the larger kingdoms. This really gives me some great ideas! :D

Since we use DM Genie, fudging isn't an issue. But I think there are times when it would be nice to give a player a second chance to succeed. So I set up a system that's built into my EXP system. When players earn ad-hoc awards (and I use a ton of them), they can choose between the experience...

Hello everyone! I'm currently using FR as a campaign setting, so we are using the names they provide for currency like nibs, shards, dragons and suns in Waterdeep, etc. I would like to expand on that for some of the smaller regions and I was wondering if anyone had any sources for alternative...

Thank you Piratecat! :D I've been following this thread and totally distracted by the inflammatory posts. For me, the definition of "cheating" is obviously subjective. So, it only matters what you as a group define as cheating. As long as everyone agrees about the definition of "is", there...

A user by the name of Vanoj just submitted a script on the DM Genie website for a Vitality/Wound system. The best part is that it won't collide with my Opposed Roll script, so I can have both. :) I'm going to copy it into a new campaign and play around with it a bit. The IH Armor Dr seems to...

Thanks for the simplification on the vitality/wound system genshou! That helps explain the premise of it a little better for me :) I'm going to play around with it, but doesn't it get a little complicated with criticals and special attacks? I'd love to actually sit in on a group using this...

I had thought about giving the Vitality/Wound system a go, but I haven't figured out how to incorporate it into DM Genie. DM Genie has WWWWWAAAAAAAYYYYYY too many advantages to ditch it just to try a combat variant. I've already started working in Iron Heroes variants into DM Genie like the...

I voted care because it's a game of chance and my group feels it should be played that way. If you are just going to allow people to use whatever numbers they see fit for the situation, why not go totally diceless? I've talked to a couple of DM's who use no form of random number generation and...