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Don't overlook the impacts that dungeon ecology can have on topside ecology. Real world example would be cave complexes that are home to thousands of bats. The bats eats things topside and then provide food for things inside. Plus sometimes a usable pile of waste for humans needing fertilizer...

One of my groups used a TV laid flat on a home brew stand with plexiglass laid over the screen. Not built into the table. It works well compared to paper maps or hand drawn stuff on battle mats. We found that having the map image in a jpg or png format worked better if using the OS image...

To be fair, the quality of the photography of the received minis is pretty poor as well. But the first model does seem rather poor, even for a cheap China made/painted mini. When I bought my WOTC pre-paints back when the D&D minis and game came out, I pretty much got what I expected. A...

Congrats to both of you for resuming your RPG playing. Possible that his play style is how his games went those 20+ years ago. Or at least how he remembers them going. A lot of my early RPG games were a bit fast and loose. Maybe his were as well. Even if you don't want to kill the...

When it becomes obvious that the horse is dead and not just resting, that the resulting zombie horse has been killed as well, and the resulting skeleton horse ground into bone dust and scattered to the many winds. Now if the spirit of the horse comes back as a Lich.......

Then it can be assumed that they arrive prepared for a long slog and have brought supplies they think necessary. (Be prepared to fudge a bit on this. If the Players forgot to bring something(s) the characters would have thought to bring, let it show up IF the characters have enough spare cash...

Important question: Does the party know this is coming? If so, they should prepare accordingly and during the encounters, expend non-renewable resources sparingly. If not, given how so many RPGs these days assume full or near full rest after each encounter, it will probably go badly...

If you have a regular host site, stock the place with several board and card games. Red Dragon Inn, Munchkin, Conspiracy Theory, and Castle Panic to name a few. Nothing wrong with some old style card games like Bridge, Spades, Hearts, some version of Poker, etc. One way to start the...

When they find them, "3 gem stones". If they spend time identifying/appraising then assuming success, the full description. Probably should be a GM roll since failure could lead to some interesting side plots. Sadly, most parties can't wait to turn gems/jewelry into cash so generally not...

My picks and the ones I am familiar with: D&D (the one without version numbers) - created the d20 system genre. Traveller - Made character creation a game in its own right. d6 only game, in Space. Fantasy Trip - A d6 game. Quick character creation - often quick character death. Offspring of...

While the folks I play with quit D&D when WOTC did the great license cancellation as part of the 3.5 -> 4 transition, I still like to stay informed about D&D/WOTC/Hasbro. When Hasbro stuck their foot once again into the license change/cancel quagmire, this place was one of the sources that kept...

Those pencils might work as presents for that Goth in your life. Could be used in game by the town sage as part of a 'stick casting' fortune telling. A few of the things printed on them have a magic 8 ball feel. The dice tower kind of has some Steampunk vibe.

Help friend build daughter's shed.

What? The party always has to win? Then where is the risk? Sometimes crap happens. You can't always take the fork to the east. Sometimes, circumstances dictate that you are stuck taking the west fork. Or dying. Your choice. If the GM has screwed up and let in too many magic items(the...

That may stay true unless the party discovers that the Guild Master for the Thieves is twice the party's level and her minions are more then a match for the party's puny abilities. Way too many players operate in the belief that their characters are the most powerful force in the area...

That was a period of time when I wasn't paying much attention to RPG things for a lot of reasons. When I did a quick Wiki check on JG, the entry stopped well before the statements in question were made(which is kind of interesting in its own right. Entries are often updated almost to the most...

The events everyone seems worried about happened in 2020, five years ago. Have the folks at Judges Guild that made/committed those comments/acts continued making them or was it a one and done? If it was a one and done, how long a sentence do they have to serve before it is long enough? From...

One classic way to remove items from characters is thieves. An item worth 15,000 gold is going to be a target. Many may fail but eventually, one lucky/well prepared thief will succeed. Characters have to sleep sometime. Most magic defenses have counter magic to defeat. With many systems now...

Was never very good at solving Rubic's cube(*). But I am getting some Evil ideas about a Cubic Gate themed puzzle cube. With far more the 6 possible destinations. Party searches desk, finds cube. GM hands a player a Rubic type cube with a bunch of lines on each side. If the player starts...

No, but I do have the DVDs needed to do the research. As for the Beastmaster RPG concept, IMO the IP would be better served as a set of well developed Character Supplements for existing RPG systems. Want to play an official Beastmaster in your 5e game? Or Pathfinder? Or GURPS? Or ...? We...