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About five years ago I used to game three times a week. I ran two games and played in a third, and then had the occasional tabletop miniature wargaming on top of that. This was during a time of my life when I worked at a terrible job for little money, had few friends away from the gaming...

It does take a certain tolerance for "moral ambiguity" to play any of the 40k RPGs. But part of the fun is watching your character resist the darkness that is everywhere in the 40k world.... or watch your character become part of it! :lol:

Yeeessss... not even Elminster can withstand the magic of capitalism's invisible hand working against him!!! Bwahahahah! :]

For Azazel, you don't need a D&D source. Just watch the movie Fallen with Denzel Washington and John Goodman from 1998. "Ti-i-ime is on my side, yes it is." :devil:

"Elminster's archenemy, the vampiric Lord Manshoon, thinks he has destroyed Elminster at last. But Elminster survives in the form of magical ash..." oh for crying out loud. Is the ash floating around like a cloud? Or is Elminster kept in a cremation jar? I guess I'll have to read the book to...

I kinda understand where you're coming from. But for me, nothing will be like those days when I exclusively played and ran AD&D 2nd Edition. 3.0/3.5e was great and I almost exclusively played that, but eventually I got annoyed at all of the rules. After 4e came out, the edition wars almost...

I brag about playing D&D and other RPGs all the time. And then I tell them awesome my characters are, and what they would do in real-world dangerous situations, and how I have a talent to rolling natural 18s for their ability score. I actively recruit people at my job or on the street. I...

Dragon #216 It has one of the best articles written for Dragon. "The Auld Alliance," by Arthur Collins shows how to keep a gaming group together for the long haul, for years. It was published in 1995, but I still use Mr. Collins' advice to this day: Game with friends and people you would enjoy...

Followed by: "How can my character interact best with the story?" "What is my character's inner motivation, besides treasure, to enter the Tomb of Horrors?" "Is my character a descendant of Acererak? If so, are all those messages in the Tomb really for ME?" "Maybe I can reach out to Acererak...

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D&D 5th EDITION!!! Now that I've got your attention, I probably won't buy 5th Edition if its made by WotC. Obviously, with 4th Edition I'm not in their target demographic. I really wish the game would embrace simpler rules and say "these rules are optional," instead of "here's the official...

Okay. After some digging... I believe that you are correct, the Tomb of Horrors was not the first... Both The Steadying of the Hill Giant Chief and The Tomb of Horrors was published in 1978 in monochrome, probably within months of each other. ToH was republished in 1981, after many of the...

Just because... The Orc and the Pie: The Tomb of Horrors version. The wooden door to this 10'x10' room is neither locked nor trapped. But a message is scrawled in large and dark letters on the front. YE HAVE MADE IT THIS FAR AVOIDING YOUR DOOM. YET NOT ALL MOUTHS SHOULD CONSUME TO GET THEIR...

Once I played in a Post-Apocalyptic GURPs session, where everything surrounding the city the characters lived in suddenly became a burning wasteland. Communications went down. Things started falling apart, food was running out, etc. Our group's mission was to travel to a nearby town just to see...

Yet then again: why would player-characters want to search a bunch of sacks of moldy grain and flour? Let alone searching all of them? Is there any indication of something to gain by doing so? No. In comparison with the ToH: Yet I've had players do both. I took those moldy and rotten sacks...

It can be considered an outlier because it was the first AD&D module and Gygax intentionally made it incredibly challenging for players, surpassed only by Isle of the Ape. But it set the standard for all modules to come in both presentation and content. AD&D itself was about player skill, not...

Well let's see.... --Gygax devised some version of the module in 1975. --The official version didn't get published until 1978 as an AD&D module (the first) --It was not a mega-dungeon like Castle Greyhawk or what the AD&D DMG talked about in its appendices. --It requires player skill, not...

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I'm kinda in the same boat, too. My D&D 3.5e campaign wraps up in about three or four months, and I know I don't want to run another d20 game after that. Maybe I'd play in one, but I definitely don't want to DM. My current game is a blast, but I know as the characters go past 10th level things...

That's a lot of ammunition to throw at my players when they misbehave... :p