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Yeenoghu could work for this I think. He's more about bestial rage and destruction than gnolls, although I can see how the association would be natural for gamers. You might want to give a look at Baphomet, it's the first demon lord that occured to me. You say there's a village involved...

I am a big fan of reskinning things, in fact, I used reskinned imps to represent the "black bats of Algos" that haunt a wizard's tower. I was wanting to know if there was actually some rules somehwere for it and I just happened to miss them. Thanks for the guidelines, Cailte. I made a...

Fall is a wonderful time for gaming. It reminds me more of Ravenloft than D&D in general though. To me, summer is more D&D-esque than fall. It's warm and easy to spend an entire day outside exploring the wilderness, even if the "wilderness" doesn't have goblins and dragons wandering about. I...

My game this week involves the characters battling a tribe of troglodytes and I'd like to fill out the encounters with some minions. The troglodyte minion in the Monster Manual is level twelve whereas the other troglodytes are between six and eight. The DM's Toolbox tells you how to create...

This is where I'm at. I suppose that I have decent eyes, but I'd prefer to have more content in a printed product. In order to get more content, you can either increase the page count or put more content on every page. Seems like it'd be easier to use smaller font sizes. I'm probably in the...

At the game yesterday, I bought a big pan of homemade brownies with chocolate and peanut butter chips and a big airpot of coffee. Last week I made a homemade cheesecake... So I usually bring something sweet when I'm not hosting.

I don't know as it's a "strange" media influence but it's definitely silly... Around 2001, I concluded a Star Trek game based on the Last Unicorn Games the Next Generation and Deep Space Nine rules. The characters served onboard the U.S.S. Donalbain, a Nebula-class ship assigned to deep space...

Whenever I host, I typically lay a decent spread for my gamers. Here's the menu from the last game I hosted. Hors d'ouevres • Caviar with dill cream cheese. • Coconut-battered shrimp with mango salsa. • Brie, havarti, and camembert cheese. • Ferro Rocher and Hershey's Bliss bonbons. • Wheat...

Oh yes, I'm sure we could fill books with all the horror stories about some of the players we've met. :) I really don't think that it's a problem with Werewolf as much as certain players that gravitate toward Werewolf, for whatever reason that may be. I've seen some real chumps blunder through...

I never saw an official statement about it, hence why I prefaced it as "rumor." But it wouldn't be the first time that creative people didn't agree on the future of an intellectual property.

That's awesome and the exact same reason that I play. We all play RPGs for fun (I hope), and there's nothing in the world wrong with a beer-and-pretzels game as long as the players are all having fun. Over about the past five years, I've rgadually come to realize that the most "fun" type of D&D...

I totally agree with this. One of the biggest things I love about the game is the exploration angle, I love having a mysterious wilderness to map out and I love to open every door in a dungeon complex just to see what's there.

Soth was taken out of Ravenloft around 1999 in Spectre of the Black Rose, not because he had been redeemed, but because he somehow managed to ameliorate his torturous existence in Ravenloft. Although never expressly stated, it was hinted at that the Dark Powers realized that Soth could not...

I always explained the priestly focus on bludgeoning weapons as a philosophical one. When asked about their maces and staves, the creationists clerics of my homebrew would cite an oft-quoted adage: "You may cut the flesh, but you must break the bones."

Well... Why not spells? They're one-time magical effects, just like the other spells of the game. Just because they're cast by a different class doesn't necessarily make them something different. If a light spell functions the same way for everyone who casts it, why muddy the waters by calling...

In my current campaign, the characters are basically mercenaries fighting a wizard's academy deep in a swamp. Neither side is really "good" or "evil," they are all self-interested and the character's patrons just happened to pay the best. It's a sword-and-sorcery type of game. I typically...

This is exactly what I do. It's easier to reach a narrative conclusion when you know where you're going with it out of the gate. I typically plan the BBEG and how they plan to reach their goals, then leave some "wiggle room" or "blank space" so I can expand a subplot that the players latch on...

That's part of the deal... I like most of the various White Wolf games, and I happen to think that Werewolf was really good on paper. I even dig lots of violence in a game, as long as it's there for a reason. Carrying on a doomed crusade against the Wyrm could be pretty cool, but there needs to...

For the past sixteen years, I've managed to run I6: Ravenloft as a one-shot at Halloween. I've updated it every edition so far, but I think I'm going to go retro and do it in 1E this year.

Not at all. I'm glad that I've started a discussion that might not turn into a flame war within five posts. ;) Seriously though, Werewolf chronicles just never really jibed with me. I can get into a savage horror setting where the characters fight for control over a dual existence within their...