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This topic seems to come up monthly and it always seems that inanimate objects are the blame for problems at the table. I personally don't think there's a difference between the player/GM burying their nose in a laptop as opposed to burying thier nose in a book, magazine, PSP, cell phone, comic...

I'm with Aus Snow. I don't have any anger or resentment toward 4E. It's just that I have dozens of 3.5 books that I haven't even had a chance to integrate yet. On top of that, I've recently fallen in love with the Conan D20 ruleset, and as soon as I finish converting my DM Genie to accomodate...

We also roll initiative every round, but I have been doing it manually in DM Genie. Would you mind sending me your script to roll initiative every round? I thought I saw it in a thread once on the DM Genie boards but since haven't been able to find it.

This is a good point, but again, I've seen DM's do the same thing with a 3 ring binder and a stack of notebooks. I think I was actually more like that when I was working out of binders, because it was harder to stay organized and it took longer to find things. Now I only have to look at my...

I'll be the first to admit that DM Genie was a little intimidating when I first started using it. It is such a robust program that it does come with a bit of a learning curve. It has a very good tutorial, but I learned more by just jumping into it. I also received a lot of help from people on...

To each his own I guess. I consider myself to be a very good DM with a long-running tabletop group and a large online group. I use a laptop during my entire session and I run an engaging and entertaining game according to all of my players. I don't really think it's fair to make broad...

I wouldn't even run 3.5 without DM Genie . It has more features than any other piece of software out there. It has a combat manager, campaign manager, timekeeper, weather generator and a lot more. I could write a paragraph on any one of these tools. I have not found anything that comes even...

Hey Emirikol! Great to see ya over here at Enworld! I'm super excited about starting a Conan campaign, but I have a slight problem. I'm addicted to DM Genie (in addition to my MT addiction), so I need to convert it to the Conan ruleset before we can dig in. It's taking me a while, but I hope...

My next campaigns will definitely be the Conan D20 by Mongoose. The magic system is exactly what I was looking for! :)

This is an interesting conversation, and I think it hits on why we love using the Facing Variant from UA. Although, we found we had to modify it slightly to minimize a "leapfrog" effect, where combatants are constantly moving around to get flanking on each other round after round. We...

I'm finding Terragen very interesting, but I've honestly only begun to play around with it. It looks like it will create just about any kind of terrain you can imagine. Here 's the link so you can take a looksee!

That sounds like a totally reasonable adjustment to me, considering some groups play without AoO's and seem to get along fine. I seem to remember reading about this approach a while back and the responses being generally positive. I had actually thought about doing this a couple years ago when...

I just watched the trailer and seeing it in motion didn't really help much. Dragonlance Movie Trailer

I have to completely agree here. I'm not even sure this rivals the original Dungeons & Dragons cartoon series! :confused:

One thing I forgot to mention is that I use DM Genie to manage my games, and all of this is scripted automatically, so I don't even have to track this myself. If anyone uses DM Genie to run their games and wants to try this, PM me and I will send you the script and conditions to add Battle...

I created a Battle Fatigue system 3 years ago and I've had several DM's report great experiences with it. My Battle Fatigue system only fatigues creatures taking HP Damage, as HP is supposed to represent physical damage, physical strain, mental stress, emotional stress, etc. I also use a...

You are not alone Frankthedm. Anything that makes magic feel more mundane goes against our play style. I know that it's hard to make magic feel rare and special in D&D, but it sure is fun trying! ;)

Why, I'd be happy to elaborate! :) Here's the copy and paste from our house rules: • Magic items have a unique signature that makes them unstable in close proximity of other magical items. Whenever a magical item "bonds" with a creature already possessing one or more magical items, there is a...

It seems to me that defining what "low magic" means is more difficult than tweaking the system to suit a particular gaming style. I consider our gaming style to be low-fantasy/high-magic. In our system, magic is just as powerful as core, just much more rare. In order to give the game the...

+ DM Genie for managing my game + Maptools as a virtual battlegrid. My laptop is connected to an HD projector and 8' screen. + Dundjinni for map creation + TokenTool for quickly creating creature and character tokens. + RPG Audiomixer for background music and sound effects + James Buck's NPC...