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Why SO SERIOUS????

Heck, I can't even imagine adjusting the content of a module based on spreadsheet calculations; the most I'll do is adjust for party size by tossing in an appropriate number of opponents of the right level -- but that's it. Those theoretical calculations are good for discussing merits and flaws...

Come to think of it, I could quite easily set the campaign I'm currently working on in my shattered worlds setting. After all, I'd planned for that to be my last 3.5 campaign and then eventually start a 4E campaign a couple of hundred years afterwards -- after the scattered fragments of the...

I've started one campaign with an apocalypse before. I took Eberron, FR, Greyhawk and a dozen or so nameless worlds, smashed all of them together in a planar catastrophe and scattered the fragments of all the worlds across an endless sky, linked by flowing threads of rivers winding thru the...

Yep, saw that on a barbarian I whipped up for kicks. Definitely a headscratcher.

Now, I'd wager that it's not done as a "thou shalt do this," by your DM, of course. I view my primary job as DM to be the providing of interesting antagonists that the PCs will really, really want to thwart. So, the PCs end up doing as I somewhat envision them to do, but it's because they want...

OMG, only #4? WE'RE DOOMED! Jettison the women and children, load the animals in the catapults, shake up all the soft drinks and prepare for a long siege!! ;)

The distinction here, I believe, is that worldbuilding involves detailing things that the characters might at some point in the distant future, interact with outside of the main thrust of the campaign, via going off on tangents, losing interest in the current plot or what have you -- but they...

What he's referring to (I believe) was this quote in reply to his description of Savage Tide and the consequences of not following through on the plot: Admittedly, I think he's ascribing that particular attitude to a few too many people, but it's one that bothers me as well. I have absolutely...

Well, let's take the campaign I've sort of detailed in the original thread as a working example. 1) Geography For what I've got in mind plotwise, I know I need a reasonably sized yet isolated kingdom surrounded on all sides by hostile wilderness. I also know that I'm going to need 3 areas...

I seem to recall wading through a few of those threads in the past, hehe. Always entertaining reading, to say the least. Me, I've always been a fan of the "just enough" school of thought. I'm building sets, not cities. If I've got a well detailed street front with enough life and extras...

True, true -- however, this is a group I've played with for around 8 years or so, and they're rather used to the severe plot twists I come up with. Considering in the past I've had them come across their own 10,000-year old dead bodies deep in the Underdark, staged a climactic battle to end a...

Something else I think I'm going to do as I start building the encounters for each level segment is to take the DMGs encounter budget concept one step further. In the DMG (pp 56-57), it gives the guidelines for setting up an encounter budget one encounter at a time. What I'm going to do...

This one's going to get a bit ugly for the PCs, I'm afraid. Here's a rough synopsis per tier....

Aye, Epic might be where I'm going to have to get really creative with Monsters, as it's going to deal with trying to stop and reverse a major attempt by the Far Realm to engulf a significant chunk of the world. My mid-epic level titles, though (for amusement's sake): 24-25: An Elemental...

I've been tossing around an idea in my head for a 4E campaign for a few days now, and I finally decided to sit down and solidify it a bit on paper. As I started jotting things down, I was struck by something I hadn't consciously realized before. The tiered level structure of 4E --...

Well, if you're Dominated by a Blade Banshee's lvl 20 Daily power you are most CERTAINLY a threat....

While I've been DM'ing 4E since it came out, I finally had what one would probably consider an "ideal" session last weekend. Most of the time, I have somewhere in the area of 7+ PCs to deal with, so I've been consistently having to worry about scaling encounters. Additionally, despite how...

Personally, I've played a Bariaur Warblade who, due to a VERY hard knock on the head, suffered from the delusion that he was merely a mount, while the true warrior and hero was.... a teddy bear which rode on his back. Due to a bit of DM fiat (he loved the concept), he was able to actually...

The world from David Farland's "Runelords" series -- that would be a very interesting thing to try to convert.