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Ten! Ten! Ye Gods man, Ten! Ten?! What the...TEN? TEN?? TEN!! There's your problem, buddy! Sorry. Groups of more than 5 are totally unviable, as you have no doubt seen. If you must have that many, have four or five "regulars" and the others as "semi-regulars" who can show up as story or lack...

I guess I've always had humans as basically the same everywhere. It's an underlying theme of all my campaigns - that no matter what, at the end of the day, people are basically the same everywhere you go. So on every world on which you find humans, you find, well, humans. Selfish, egotistical...

I still say the Head of Vecna story is the indisputable, hands-down winner. I don't think it's possible for anybody to ever be as stupid as those guys. I guess it just goes to show, you don't need a brain to play this game. And I know I've said this before, but I sooo want to see Gygax post on...

Well, the loo concerned was a fake. I suppose it would be particularly messy if, say, you were really drunk and mistook it for a real one. If you threw up in it that'd be...not cool. Besides, the dungeon had a Vietnamese woman come in to clean up once a week. That's her problem.

Mine do. Always. One time the PCs were exploring and found the outhouses. One of them was a duck blind - the hole led to a secret chamber full of goodies. The PCs figured out quickly the hole was very deep, so they came up with a novel solution. They tied a rope around the protesting halfling...

This seems to happen so often in my campaigns - not this specifically, but more a sort of trigger-happy recklessness. The first, second and third instinct is to attack. It drives me spare, especially when they get beaten up and then blame me.

My campaign's in its last few sessions before winding up, so I've been thinking about this a lot. My options I've asked my players to consider are: Spacefaring (d20 future) A d20 future campaign which would actually owe more to Firefly than Star Trek or Star Wars. It'd be "low" sci-fi, so no...

I'm enjoying the way this is going. There's some great ideas there. I've even come up with the names of the two political parties in the PCs' home city. The anti-Guild party are called the Delbenists, named after a character in the old campaign who always tried to resist Guild influence and lost...

I'm putting together my next world for my next homebrew. The world is an update of my old campaign, a "next generation" if you like, set one hundred years after the conclusion of the last one. In that campaign, the world was just starting to enter its own version of the Industrial Revolution...

I wanted to do this in a campaign once, but my DM wouldn't let me. I wanted to play the part like Peter Cook in Bedazzled - someone who goes out of his way for a little bit of mischief.

Communism in RPGs: You have two cows. The government tries to take both. The government fails their grapple check. Roll for initiative.

Usually we don't stop it, or even minimise it. We're there to have fun and socialise. The game is mostly a kind of optional extra. I've been at a session where two players were playing Halo 2 and still managing to contribute to the RPG at the same time. I'm still not quite sure how.

Why are dwarves Scottish? I don't think anybody knows. I think Warcraft might have started that, but now it seems everybody does it. I don't do it all the time, but some dwarves are definitely Scottish. I played a Scottish dwarf in Shadowrun once. Good times. Mostly, when I voice dwarves, I...

That's actually an excellent point. My players wouldn't complain about extra XP. They would, however, complain if they lost. They do that all the time. I also like the advice that zombies aren't the real threat. Something nobody mentioned which I've also just thought of is that every pack of...

Zombies. Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't ignore 'em. But you can control 'em, with the help of a handy animate dead spell. But, there's a problem. In order to cast animate dead, you need to be a Cleric of at least 5th level or a wizard/sorcerer of at least 7th level. At which point, you can...

Another one happened last night. The PCs took prisoner a guy who tried to scam them, and made him walk home nude. Afterwards, I turned to the PC and said "what is it with you and nude prisoners." He defied me to show previous incidents of nude prisoners. Between the rest of us we pointed out...

I'm gonna have to echo others and go with falling damage and poison. Falling off a cliff kills you. Sorry, it does. Some poisons can kill you in one minute. Most take longer. Not in D&D. They either kill you in one minute or they don't kill you at all. You can house rule that one out of the way...

Sounds like my players. They've never been quite that dumb, but the one thing you can count of them to do is fight when they can't win. Then die. Then complain it's my fault.

So...you ran through an extraplanar city naked...twice? Damn, that must have been funny the second time.

All the responses to this thread have made me feel much better. Clearly, we're not the only ones who "nude up" with disturbing frequency.