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My screen name has nothing to do with it... Three guesses. :D

Rogues and bards, IIRC.

Clarification I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you looking for appropriate monsters for the two or appropriate treasure?

AMEN BROTHER! [Rant on] I don't think I can stomach another book with more skills, feats, prestige classes, spells and combat options. Please give us more fluff, pretty please? City dynamics, organizations in a fantasy setting, guilds, anything but more racial variants and number crunching...

1. Real-world sounding names. 2. Railroading. 3. Supplemental sourcebooks needed to run the adventure. I love Necromancer Games adventures, but Tomb of Abysthor requires the use of Relics and Rituals to run it. I don't have that sourcebook, so a lot of re-writing is needed if I'm to run the...

If it weren't for those pesky players... One important rule that I've learned through similar experiences to your own: No adventure survives contact with the players. No matter how hard I try to think of every possibly contingency, the players will come up with something I hadn't even...

I've used Campaign Cartographer in conjunction with the FR Interactive Atlas. You can load any of the hundreds of maps into CC2, and then edit them at any scale you like. CC2 produces great maps, but it took a long time for me to get used to all of the options, and several crumpled printouts...

I don't have them handy, but the barby and the fighter are better than average (half-orc bbn has 20 str and 18 con), but the rest are either average or slightly above. Used 4d6, drop lowest, arrange as desired method.

I try to catch the PC's unawares as often as possible, although the terrain through which they're traveling is lightly rolling hills/near-tundra in mid-spring. The troll caught the party by surprise, knocked the fighter unconscious, took out the druid's wolf companion, knocked out the fighter...

All feats are core PHB. Fighter has taken the dodge tree of feats and has dodge, mobility, weapons focus and combat expertise. Rangers have rapid shot, one has favored enemy giants, the other orcs. Cleric woships a god of justice and retribution, favored weapon longsword. Barby has no combat...

At first, I was following the CR rules and putting them up against CR 1 and 2 encounters. A few orcs, some skeletons, etc. They seemed to handle that without difficulty, so I upped the number of opponents. A little tougher, but still not much of a challenge, except when they rolled poorly or...

I'm still a n00b to 3rd edition D&D, and fear that I may not be using the rules correctly. There's definitely something wrong, because the baddies I throw up against them get knocked down like Ikea furniture, and I'm not sure what to do about it. Here are the details. There are seven player...

The campaign that I currently run has about three over-arching plots going currently. The characters in the campaign may not directly participate or influence each of the plots yet, but they are developing around them, and at some point in the campaign, each plot will affect the PC's in some...

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I ran into this myself. DM at the time ruled that I could use the dodge bonus only if I rolled a succesful Handle Animal check on a DC 15, and the mount had to be a war horse. Failure meant that my flat footed AC was used.

I don't trust my players enough to not look at a "My players stay out" thread. So I post under a screen name that they don't know, so I can ask questions and pose potential scenarios without tipping them off to the plot of the adventure. I think maybe it's because I couldn't resist looking...

I still have no idea what to do with the gnome race. Right now I conceive of them as a combination halfling and dwarf, but that doesn't really give them racial distinctiveness, and I hate the idea of the prankster or the mad tinker. I'd love to see what others have done with this race; I'm at...

I'm nothing more than a glorified clerk As DM, I post a game summary to our group website after each game. The players normally have a chance to edit and/or suggest changes to it before it becomes "official". My memory is getting bad, so I sometimes can forget details. It's been nice to...

I have a secret identity I'm not exactly new to the boards, but was forced to take on a new ID once the players in my campaign discovered my screename. I tend to ask a lot of opinions about current campaign plot ideas, and got tired of the players figuring out what was going on just by reading...

I don't get it. When we set up our current campaign, the players said "I'd like to play", and so they play. The DM (me) said "I'd like to DM", and so I DM. I much prefer taking the reigns of the campaign, seeing a vision I have manifested through the eyes of the players, and directing a...