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Really!? Humans are by far the most common race in my games. At any rate, I can't speak for others, but I remember playing a thri-kreen in a Dark Sun game back in the day. The race totally evoked images of the green men of Barsoom for me, and I thought it would be fun to play an emotionless...

I think figuring out what will keep my players interested is the sometimes the hardest part of the role. I've rarely gone into a game with a rigid expectation of what it will be, and it always seems to evolve as we go. I suppose if I started with a firm vision of what the campaign would be...

Welcome back! Pretty great, actually. I have one game with my kids, my neighbor, and his kids that we still meet f2f. It's the only thing keeping us all sane in these days. I cooked up a 1-page haunted house adventure for Halloween that had the kids legitimately spooked and talking about it...

Wonderdraft is really well-suited to regional maps. In fact, that's it's purpose.

I've used wonderdraft (and now dungeondraft) for a couple of years now and really like them. There's a little bit of a learning curve, but they turn out high quality results without much effort. As with most mapping software, there's always room for more art assets, but the ones that are...

I took the survey just so I could give props to ENWorld. I was only asked 64 questions, so clearly I'm not their target audience :)

Is that really Jelly baby? Wow. Gotta love it 🙂

One of my favorites was Asante del Mare Astra, of the Sea of Stars. He was a gnomish paladin from an astral-dwelling race of gnomes in a Planescape game. Bold, courageous, and courteous, Asante brought kindness and decency wherever he went.

A glass bridge over a 600' chasm, in a windstorm, in the rain. The paladin in heavy armor decided to leave the party behind and venture across, alone. There was plenty of warning about how slippery the bridge was, and the paladin was moving very slowly to try not to fall. An air mephit...

It's honestly never crossed my mind to disallow it. Weird.

The Delve - an episodic, beer-and-pretzels game consisting of just a single city, surrounded by wall that keeps at bay the Void. Once a week, a gate appears in the wall that leads to some sort of realm or dungeon within the void. The gate only remains open for a few hours, and those who don't...

Likewise. When I went to RPGnet yesterday, a pop-up said that Len Lakofka had passed away.

The one difference being, in this case I use certain strategies to get people to conform to expectations when they otherwise might not. A classic case of behavior management.

One of the games I run, with my eldest son as a player (15 when the game started), includes two other father-son pairs. It was deliberately arranged, at least partially, as a parent+child game to give the younger ones the opportunity to interact in social situations with adults (and their...

I have two games going right now, both in 3.5E. The first game is for my younger kids plus the neighbor and his kids. They are our "safe harbor" family and the only group of people we see in person, so our game sessions are still in person. The last session was the night before Halloween...

@Zardnaar FWIW I think it's a humorous story, and I probably would have done something similar in your shoes. The most shocking thing to me is all of the posters telling you how wrong and how much of a bad DM you are. That's not very nice. I'm trying to be diplomatic here, but people play...