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It probably would have been more fun if we'd had good instruction, if we weren't rushed to finish within a specific time limit, and if we'd been allowed to play it again after we figured out the rules the first time. So for all that, it was mainly just presented to us poorly at the event...

Go for it. I hope it plays well for you too.

That's pretty much in line with the frustrations my table had. We did win, but just barely in the time that we were alotted to play. Also, WotC had one guy facilitating four games at once. We had to just read the instructions on our own and figure it out, and the guy we could talk to wasn't...

Yeah, I played it at Gencon as well. And I wasn't all that thrilled with it. I felt like the rules weren't very well written and left a lot of room for interpretation and judgement calls. And with no DM to facilitate that, it left everyone at the table kind of lost and confused. Maybe if I...

In case anyone was curious, it went really well. The party chose to help the ghost rather than fight her. Once they summoned her husband's ghost it got really fun, because I was having them make diplomacy checks to see how well their conversation was going. They kept rolling really low, but I...

Oh, I like that a lot! Thanks!! I even like the name.

Here's what I came up with on my own. In this settlement there lived a beautiful woman with her family. She was a musician and played the harp. Her music was so beautiful that even the god Corellon smiled upon her. Her husband was a leader of the community and well loved by the people as a...

My players are going to be crossing The Old Hills on their way somewhere. I'm trying to come up with a short non-combat encounter or event or obstacle, and I'm looking for some ideas. I guess I should first ask if there is any background info about this region from WotC I should consider or...

Maybe I don't understand. Do you mean D&D minis? There's an archive on the Wizards site: Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Archive

Good ideas. Thanks! The party is being dogged by a mysterious evil force right now. They don't know who or what it is, only that it keeps sending creatures after them to try and kill them and steal a powerful magical item that they found but aren't able to use. The encounter before this had...

My players are going to run into a statue garden. I want them to stay in the garden a fight a couple animated statues. I don't want them to just run to the other end and open the gate. So rather than say it's magically locked or something, I thought maybe I could make the gate a monster...

It's been a while since I checked in. In case anyone was curious, the encounter went really well. One guy chased the pickpocket down and tackled him and got a lot of good plot info out of him. The others stayed in the tavern and killed some bad guys. We've been on a hiatus since then...

Got it. Thanks!

Can anyone point me toward some published info about the Nentir Vale setting? All I've got is what's in the back of the DMG, and I'd like to give my players more information about the history of this land. Plus I'm sure it'll help me come up with better stories. Thanks!

Ok. Along these same lines. I've got two old minis that I want to use in a game. One is a Catfolk Wilder (black cat-person with two swords) and the other is a Thorn (tiny green guy, looks like some kind of wood nymph or something). There's no Catfolk in the Monster Builder, and the Thorn...

This is great advice! Thanks!

Inspired by a scene suggested in another thread... What if my players have been relieved of their weapons and armor, and are attacked? Or, in the scene I'm thinking of, they're taking a break in a royal bathhouse as a reward for a completed quest. Are there existing rules for running unarmed...

That sounds really interesting. I haven't played Heroscape, but I've been curious about it too. Looking fowardard to hearing what anyone knowledgeable has to say.

Y'know, that makes me want to plan a larger scene. Maybe the party is in the baths, and are attacked while they're off guard. So they wouldn't be wearing any of their armor, or have their weapons ready. I'll have to look into unarmed combat rules. The Lord Warden could be so happy with...

Awesome. Yeah, I spent a couple hours playing with it the other day, prepping this encounter. And I was inspired. It changed from being a basic fight with a bunch of rabble to a real character moment, which'll give the players some serious choices about whether they want to just lay waste...