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I rarely use random encounters in my games. When I use them, I normally plays them out as small scenarios, that might introduce possible allies, enemies, an opportunity to gain a new object and so forth. When I run my homemade scanarios, this is always the way I take. These mini sidequests very...

I try to keep my games serious, but my players keep ruining it. It can be very trying at times, but this is their style. In game they are serious enough though, it is mainly their OOC talk that is anoying...

Music often inspires me. Here is a few examples: Katatonia: Viva Emptiness - I am planning a small Demon campaign based on this album. Mainly due to the illustration of a person lying in a container. Some rubble in the background makes it look like he has wings. Like a fallen, dead angel. It...

Køge, Denmark... Just south of Copenhagen :)

Do as the captain says, as his advice is sound :) I would probably let the incursion scale slowly. In the beginning the characters are more conserned with more typical adventures, only rarely encountering the advanced scouts of the incursion force. These scouts belong to different races, but...

Mjello... I have heard of your company, checked your website and downloaded much of your Pinebox setting, though I have not bought any of your products. It is not a matter of price or quality (which looks great, based both reviews and the previews), but a matter of system. I do not use D20...

Hmmm.... I will generaly not change my world to suit someones moral viewpoints. I often run historical games and I take alot of offense at people trying to rewrite history to suit current moral views. So if I run a medieval game, I tend to have a game where women are second class citizens (but...

Okay. I doubt that it will be a problem in my campaign, but I will keep it in mind :) The first character I have is a Favored Soul 8/Thaumaturgist 3. A superb summoner and healer. A very interesting character. I will probably turn it into a story hour, but I am not 100% sure yet.

I am planning to run the Istivin campaign arc from Dungeon, followed by Beyond all Reason. I would like to hear experiences from people who have played the four modules. I would like to know if there are troublespots, that I should be particularly aware of and so forth. I also have a specific...

As with D&D, Vampire can be played in alot of different ways. The one the rulebooks try to set up, is a game of personal horror, where you slowly loose your humanity as the Beast inside you, coaches you to do things that are more animalistic and amoral. At the same time the vampiric society...

Thomas Harlan's The Oath of Empire series and Ian Irvine's Well of Echoes series have inspired me greatly. The first has made me do alot of alternate/mythological history scenarios, while the latter is a great example of a gritty and deadly setting. I am still wondering if I should not run...

Besides the setting itself, there should be a chapter on what elements the setting should contain and how you imagine themn to work. If you want to have magic in the setting, a possible description could be: Magic is rare, highly ritualistic and dangerous. When invoking rituals you risk your...

Neither me nor my group has any problems with it, but it not turned very high and that could have something to do with it. I have played with a few players who occasionally would become annoyed with it, but they were almost always very easily annoyed by anything (I am happy that they are not a...

It is very rare for me not to use music when I run games. What I use generally depends on genre, style and mood. For fantasy I use: :Of the Wand and the Moon: Blackmoore's Night Dead can Dance Death in June Finntroll Forseti The Gathering Lacrimosa Moonsorrow My Dying Bride Nightwish Saturnus...

You are completely right and experimental archaeology has also shown the complexity of flint knapping, especially later, although the flint work of the Neandertalensis is also quite impressive :)

I completely agree with you. It is still odd in the light of our developement in the last 20.000 years, though, but not in comparison to the earlier million years.

There are plenty of places where palaeotologists are searching for the various human predecessors and offshots. China is one very important location and some of the Maleysian and Indonesian islands are also being searched. Europe is also a hotspot for palaeontological digs, but there is just not...

I learned most of these theories when I began studying archaeology at the University of Copenhagen 2003. They are very discussed, so I am sure that plenty of people support your theories as well. When you go this far back in time, there is a lot of theories, but practically no certain facts :)...

I am not arguing that Homo Sapiens did not do well on the ice age tundra, only that we were not as specialized for survival in those areas as the Homo Neandertalensis :) In most of the old world, Homo Sapiens pretty much expanded in warmer territory. One of the possible reasons, that I have...

There would be some specialization. Most such societies have divided the food gathering process, so that you have male hunters and female gatherers. This can be seen through ethnological studies, but there are exceptions. Besides this basic division, there would also be a spiritual class, who...