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I would like to mention that this post just made my day. Also, I suddenly want to run a really, really cliche "meet in a tavern, grizzled old veteran gives you an adventure hook, go out and kill kobolds and goblins and orcs, BBEG is an evil wizard/necromancer/magic-user" sort of adventure now...

I haven't played the system itself (though I've heard of it!), but I have bought plenty of out of print books! Google is always your friend, Amazon.com sometimes has OOP books up (but usually at highly inflated prices), eBay has a number of the books up frequently, rpg.net's "Sales! Auctions!"...

While cash is nice as a gift in general, it's not as personal/thoughtful/cool as an actual gift. Of course, it's usually the safest option. I'm in for $5-$10.

It was great meeting you! Space: 1889 is one of my new favorite settings, now ;) As far as the players, it's hard to say actually. I'll be running things at a gaming club, so it'll be probably a bit of all of the above. Last year, I had only one guy with any real experience, and a bunch of...

If you shop around, you can get miniatures pretty cheap. That being said, I plan on eventually converting over to counters myself, despite having 50-100 decent minis. It's just a thousand times easier to transport, and significantly more convention-friendly! ;)

I like the idea of tying in a prequel session to the overall plot. If I go with a prequel (still mulling over my options at this point), I'll definitely do that! Tying it into the campaign handout sounds especially cool :) I will say, everyone's replies have managed to give me a bunch of...

I've actually fallen a bit out of that habit, I need to get back into it. Also, cool example ;)

Very good point! I've been considering house rules to help reinforce that, actually. In particular, rules for unconsciousness, and a variant of FYIA tokens (slightly NSFW if only because of the F word used once or twice). Hopefully, that'll help keep things upbeat and entertaining. Not that I'm...

I sometimes write stuff in. My 4e PHB is pretty heavily marked up due to errata, actually :) I don't really write too much in game books, though, mostly as I haven't really had much need to. I tend to jot notes into margins in novels and the like, but not so much RPG books.

Honestly, everyone runs stuff differently. Be careful to not over-prepare, but many people prefer having a lot written out, other prefer to have little. It's all about preference :) You might just be feeling a bit burned out. I'd normally suggest curing it by taking a short break from DMing and...

I, personally, think it's the best D&D rules system out. It's the game system I primarily play :) (Well, OK, I tend to stick to the Moldvay/Cook/Marsh basic/expert books, but they're close enough to the Mentzer books to be more or less the same) If you want to check out more or less the same...

Thanks for the input, guys! I think I'll follow something closer to S'mon's example, though the other posts also helped with ideas :D The main thing I'm torn over now is whether to make the first session "part of the campaign," or just make it tangentially related to the plot. Hmm...

Whenever I try to sit down and prep a full scenario, I tend to get writer's block within a few minutes at best. The system I use to remedy that is more or less the following: Brainstorm. Write down a bunch of random ideas as they come to mind, silly or not. If nothing is coming up, try opening...

In a couple weeks, I'm going to be starting up a new campaign, with a number of players more or less new to the game. While a new campaign is nothing new to me personally, a few circumstances change things up a bit: I'll be running it at a weekly club at my university, so other campaigns will...

They're all down in the Archive-threads forum. :)

While I own a few different RPGs, I try to only buy the core book(s) that I'll need to play/run the game. So, for Pathfinder as an example, that means just the Core Rulebook and the Bestiary, no exceptions. (Pathfinder books are expensive!). Savage Worlds? I just own the $10 core book. The only...

I use MapTool. I'm completely happy with it, so I see no need in paying for other software. At GenCon, I actually asked almost every VTT booth "why pay for your program when MapTool is free?" and didn't get a good answer from any of them, surprisingly. Some were better than others at handling...

I disagree, considering it came out 3 years after the RC was published, making the Mentzer books even further away from it.

Consider how much of a page count it takes to have decent character creation options in 4e, and you can't really blame them.

While I haven't tried Inferno, I did get distracted by attractive women giving out free gum balls at their GenCon booth, causing me to completely lose track of my friend that I was following. *facepalm* But, hey, the marketing clearly worked! :lol: I plan on checking it out, though as with...