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It would be interesting to see people post how long they've been playing along with their choices. I am shocked to see so many 1st/2nd adventures in here, because quite frankly I found them to be incredibly boring compared to more modern ones. The only way I can see all those 1st e stuff being...

An interesting business model might be making the campaign setting itself free, and then provide the stats on commisson. I think it would be pretty tough to sell an world without stats though. That would be simply showing a fantasy world. You'd be competing with every fantasy world out there...

I dunno, I think 60 minutes of combat is just right before the PCs are stuck in the position "uhh....we gotta stop or we're gonna die". Its not too fantastic, its not too realistic. You try surviving one hour of intense combat sometime ^_^ To use one of your examples, a trolloc wave on Perrin's...

What I mean about #2 is that if you have a scene explicitly telling the PCs what is happening in a corny cut-scene it takes a lot of surprise out of the plot, and it spoils the BBEG advantage. But I suppose if you want the city to have a huge multicolored bubble around it, it will be pretty...

For #2, I think the best thing is to have the adventure end in a way that you're sure they'll be going back to the city. I think you have a great idea here, I just think it'd be cooler for it to be a surprise to them rather than a hackneyed cut-scene =) For #4, the most difficult thing to deal...

Yeah the wiki is a great idea, however I'm afraid its not going to get off the ground until the site slowdowns are fixed. I'll try to add some stuff when it gets taken care of though.

Yeah I read that "dune" thread and thought it was pretty interesting too. I think another cool take would be to use it as a sort of steriod. Perhaps this is just Dark Knight coming out... but I could envision a "Bane" type character. An enemy who is naturally very weak, however when under the...

Risk 2210 is my favorite boardgame by far. All the other version of risk eventually get stale or stupid, but there's so many different ways you can play 2210 that it never gets boring. Other boardgames its easy to figure out the "win" strategy and it becomes stale after that. However, with...

Seafarer's is a great expansion imho, but I didn't care too much for Cities and Knights. Walls are kinda pointless, barbarian invasions aren't a big deal because there's no real surprise, and knights basically exist so you can block roads with grain instead of brick/wood. The "growing cities"...

Dannyalcatraz, By spell assassin, I mean like a killer for higher...but someone who wields arcane magic, rather than the traditional cloak-and-dagger type. In D&D 3.5 especially it seems like if you really wanted to get rid of someone, you'd be better off getting a level 20 wizard to scry...

Sometimes I think it would be really interesting to play as part of a married couple adventuring together. It would be a very different dynamic. Sometimes I think that D&D character backgrounds get too fantastical; bringing in some more real-life elements would make them more interesting...

So lately I've been thinking about making a campaign setting. One of the settings that I've always wanted to do, but never could find a good published setting for, would be a high-magic version of Mediterranean Europe, around 50 BCE. It's been a period of history I've been always been fascinated...

As a big fan of the FF Lancer, I appreciate this =) However, I would go the opposite route of ziegander...I would prefer to make this more of a defender class. The main reason being that I typically think of a Lancer wearing plate armor, and they have always seemed to me to be more of a tank...

Last year, one of my housemates ran an a girls-only campaign. As a guy it was interesting to watch from the sidelines; there was much more roleplaying and less hack-n-slash. I was surprised though that the campaigns were just as violent as the all-male campaigns, and the language level was...

I think this is a really awesome idea, as it makes bullrushes/knockback much more useful. However I think you went overboard with how much damage you deal by smashing stuff into things. You're double counting a lot of stuff, like both teir and level, strength and number of squares pushed, and...

None, really. Same goes for people that share dice and books with their gaming buddies. Same goes for people that play music without headphones. Have you paid for your air today?

Yeah, because aggressive prosecution has always beaten technological advancement. How do you know that aggressive prosecution is worth the monetary cost? I highly doubt that prosecution would drive up sales. Look at what's happened to the movie/music industries.

I have about 2 gigs of WotC books from p2p networks. I have a difficult time imagining that p2p file sharing hurts small publishers, because I haven't simply been able to find them. Reading the comments by publishers on this topic has been very interesting. It's quite possible that there's...

I don't mind statting NPCs. What I really need is good concepts. I like the idea of anti-adventuring parties, and E&A did a good job of coming up with groups of monsters/adventures, detailing their battle tactics, and providing some of their motivations. I've looked through those template books...

Hey, I'm new here to EN-World, this is really a great place you have here. My only complaint is that I wish it were easier to search these forums by keyword! :) Anyway, to the meat of my post. After a 3 year break of DMing, I'm going to give the job another go. I DMed a couple campaigns in...