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As usual the answer is a really good session zero. Try saying so everyone wants to play a DARK SUN campaign. Ok, what is your idea for a DARK SUN character. How does this race/class/spell list/feat make your character a DARK SUN character? Keep saying DARK SUN over and over as you pitch ideas...

You get something like the Xena and Hercules TV series. Easy way to make your own setting and easy for players to understand it. Maps, weather, moon cycles, calendar, food, architecture, and tech level all baked in and you don't have to invent them whole cloth or read a bunch of FR or...

Car Wars uses damage locations

Jeff Dee 12 Tony DiTerlizzi 9 Terry Dykstra 16 Jeff Easley 31 Larry Elmore 31 Henry Higginbotham 11 Tyler Jacobson 29 Jeremy Jarvis 26 David S. LaForce 27 Todd Lockwood 26 Erol Otus 29+1=30 Steve Prescott 12 Roger Raupp 12-2 = 10 David C. Sutherland III 14 David A. Trampier 32 Valerie Valusek 21...

Dave Arneson 22 Gerald Brom 20 Clyde Caldwell 18 DARLENE 20 Jeff Dee 20 Tony DiTerlizzi 19 Terry Dykstra 20 Jeff Easley 21 Larry Elmore 21 Jason Engle 20 Fred Fields 20 Brian Hagan 20 Henry Higginbotham 20 Ralph Horsley 20 Jennell Jaquays 20 Jeremy Jarvis 21 David S. LaForce 18 Todd Lockwood...

1) I think having prices is a good thing. Purpose of the DMG and books is to aid the DM with running a game. It is very difficult to price magic items. If you ever want to trade, make, sell, or buy magic items in a game having suggested prices is a help to the DM. 2) Suggested guidance on...

1) Troup Play - yes, I remember doing this. Also, if someone died your new character started at level 1, even if everyone else was level 8. If you lived you just leveled up that much more quickly. 2) In general we used 4d6 drop lowest arrange as you like for PCs. I do distinctly remember...

I guess I am a grognard. Started playing around 80, maybe earlier. Mixed 1e and basic and then 2e freely. Had lots of house rules. Later in 2e I couldn't stand to play, I had to DM because I generally did not like the house rules that other DM's had. Also played original Traveller and a...

Dragon #68 (1982) has an article Two-Fisted Fighter which expands on the 1e rules for what we now call dual weilding... "Weapons usable in primary hand: battle axe, hand axe, club, dagger, horseman’s flail, hammer, footman’s mace, horseman’s mace, footman’s pick, horseman’s pick, scimitar...

uhmm... actually in 3.5 there are rules for using Shields can as a weapon. They do 1d4/x2 damage. Your strength modifier applies to the damage as normal. If your proficient with a shield, well then your proficient. You can also add spikes to the shield to increase damage to 1d6. When...

Return to Temple Of Elemental Evil Original 3 Freeport Adventures White Plume Mountain

1) I like the idea of exotic items needed. It would be nice to have a list of exotic ingredients needed for magic items. But for more common and consumable items the exotic materials should be a bit more common and easier to come by. 2) It should cost gold in addition to the exotic materials...

Karen?

Most likely The Assassins. It was a 'good' example of how to to an evil campaign. http://www.ozemail.com.au/~goran/Archive.htm Site has since gone dead so you will need to use the internet wayback machine.

I have to disagree with this. Some people believe that playing games that depict demons/devils is harmful. It doesn't matter if you agree with them or not. That is what they believe. This is what conservatives complain about liberals... things that a conservative christian believes can be...

Currently running my second campaign in Freeport... no direct piracy, but you do get to fight pirates in general saving a 'civilized' pirate port from evil cults Currently the city is caught in between 2 super powers that are at war. Both of which a are using ships from Freeport as...

This is tough, many of the sword & sorcery movies and books of the 80s may have never been made or if they were, would not have been nearly as popular. I know growing up I'd watch anything fantasy or sword & sorcery related because it was D&D like. To figure out what D&D would look like, I...

Another good one by CS is Screwtape Letters.

You didn't indicate if you are planning on a purchased adventure or making one yourself. Big difference I have run Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil 3 times... 1) It really helps if there is an online community for the big dungeon. Other DMs can answer questions and give advice on certain...

Ned is the one plot weakness, I've run it a number of times and no-one falls for his nonsense. The green slime could be very deadly or trivial (if the party has a Paladin). One thing to be careful of is that the PCs could end up with a lot of treasure... Lots of coin, smuggled items and a...