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"shelf liner", too. Which is probably the same stuff as you use for your dashboard, but cheaper because it's made for kitchens instead of cars. I'm not crazy about the offgassing that occurs with the really cheap tiles. And once you go for the seriously real-linseed-linoleum no-formaldehyde...

I think the stuff I'm using is this: Mat Boards by Bainbridge - Paper & Boards - Art & Illustration Boards at Utrecht ...at least, I got it at Utrecht. the most similar product at Dick Blick is this one: Crescent RagMat Matboard - BLICK art materials but the reason that's what I'm using is...

I make my own dungeon tiles. I love doing it -- I like having exactly what I want, exactly as many as I want. And, um, I have this photoshop habit that's much more satisfying if I actually *make* something. I use Mod Podge adhesive to mount the printouts on 4-ply white mat board, but any...

thank you! I was looking for a good 13th level adventure to re-skin into my campaign world, and this one'll do just fine.

This is the situation I end up having the most trouble with, and what started me hunting for a better tool this time. I've got a few major loose ends from a previous campaign: a high-level NPC, a geographical location of great interest, a fallen city and the army that's occupying it. And while...

Well, starting with Doug's suggestion of Mind Mapping, I went out hunting for concept-mapping software. Mindmapping is a subset of concept mapping; the former requires a central concept from which all else radiates out, while the latter is more free-form. I've only played with it for a little...

Oooh, how could I forget about mind mapping? My partner used to swear by MindManager.

My information's nonlinear, and my short-term memory holds three items. Figuring out how four different things interrelate doesn't work for me in excel because I have to remember where I was three clicks ago.

My players notice. It's very embarrassing!

What tools or strategies do you use to keep track of the story in long-running campaigns? I've just embarked on a big campaign that we'll be running over a long period of time. I'm using published adventures gently reskinned to fit together and a BBEG or two who's working behind the scenes at...

Dungeon 177 has suggestions for modifying monsters to reflect the effects of the Far Realm & they suggest that any resistance *or* vulnerability on an existing monster could be changed to psychic, acid, or force when changing it to an abberation.

How far does the gnome need to be thrown? The easy answer -- which may be insufficient for your purposes -- is for the half-orc to provide an assist to the gnome's Jump via Aid Another. Alternately, how about using the half-orc's Athletics check for the gnome's "jump"? I agree that throwing...

I'm fond of Ikea's Ivar shelving because I can put the shelves exactly as far apart as I want them. They've made for the most efficient paperback book shelving I've ever had. The shelves are real wood, not pressboard, so they hold up well for hardbacks, too. They're not pretty -- though...

and repaginate the whole book each time errata comes out -- much of it is longer than what it replaces. I used to print out the errata and tape it into the book over the old stuff. I don't do that anymore, because often shrinking it down so it fits in the space the old text was makes it too...

I'm pretty sure that the RAW regarding moving a grabbed target is if *you* have the target grabbed, *you* can move it. In the passage you quoted, UltimaGabe mentioned the "move a grabbed target" as an example of something in the rules that does *not* qualify as appropriate for this question...

I don't use my laptop at the gaming table. I don't like the barrier between me and the players (I don't use a GM screen, either), and we spill our drinks too often, and this way I don't feel like a hypocrite when I tell my players I don't want them fiddling around with their email while I'm...

Wow, that's a really extreme response to something that's been explicitly called out as something that only happens occasionally. You seem to be arguing with someone who's *not here*.

I've been in one genuine Railroad game that I more-than-happily played. The GM made it pretty clear, only a few sessions in, that we weren't the main characters. We were there to facilitate the journey of one of the NPCs. While we could affect some of the bits and pieces on the side, the...

I don't use this tactic to make things "worse" for the players. I use it to make things fit together in ways that they can appreciate. I've had too many games where I thought I'd liberally salted every encounter with plenty of clues as to the bigger picture, only to find that the players...

There are some hand-slot items from Adventurer's Vault: Burning, Caustic, Frost, Holy, and Storm Gauntlets.