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I have to second "Flowers for Algernon" as several others have done -- put yourself in that guy's shoes, and I don't think you can have any other reaction but tears. Here's one that may get me openly mocked, but I'm game... I always get a little teary-eyed every time I read Laurana's eulogy...

I can only speak from personal experience, but for me, geekiness definitely came first -- my brother and I were creating a complete milieu with our Star Wars figures for a few years before D&D. On a side note, does anyone else differentiate between geekiness and nerdiness? I had always thought...

Boy, talk about a flashback. It wasn't long ago that post could have been mine, Shadowslayer. After the best game group I had ever had to that point broke up (a very long story, one not worth going into here), I spent more than six years trying to find another group. I had moved to a...

I am about to start my second year teaching secondary English (literature and grammar, as opposed to English as a second language) at an inner-city high school - my board name was born in a Quixotic moment. I get a full slate of Freshmen again this year, with one period of EL (English Learners...

I needed a break after a spate of RPG books (I loved both Draconomicon and Libris Mortis, looking forward to getting the Aberrations book), and am currently reading "The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene, a layman's level book on superstring theory. I'm really enjoying it, though some of the...

I wish I had read this thread earlier. I just checked at RPGNow (my primary source), and they have me as buying 311 pdf's since 2002 -- that's almost entirely d20 material. If you count in some of the other places I have purchased from (White Wolf, DriveThruRPG now that they have partly rid...

DaveMage -- I agree, it sounds like putting the kibosh on multiclassing isn't a bad idea, if only to avoid the "now what all can this guy do again?" problem. Power curve aside, you can only hold so many options in your head at once. That said, I think I will probably allow PrC's in the...

Wormwood, you say you had to drop EL's by one or so to keep the party alive; was this at lower levels? If so, did it get better once the characters cleared a few levels? Combining what you have said (provided it applies at lower levels) with DaveMage's comments about higher (10-19) levels, it...

Thank you, gentlemen, for the tips, and DaveMage, for the first-hand experience. It sounds like things can get pretty goofy after a while (an AC of 60+... :eek: ...), but since one of the players in this campaign likes tinkering with supercharged, munchkinized, uber-character builds, this...

This goes back a while, but I had a friend who ran a 1E dual-classed barbarian/thief-acrobat who, by the time he was about 6th level, was ridiculously hard to throw adventures at that he didn't just laugh at... or maybe I was just inept as DM then? :\

I don't know if you have access to Dungeon Magazine, but their group of Adventure Path modules might be worth checking out (they're scheduled to begin another group soon).

No intention of hijacking the thread, but since this is where the conversation seems to be going on... I just posted over on the General board (apparently should have been here) about a campaign I'm about to start DM'ing with 2 gestalt characters. I was curious, how do gestalt characters stack...

Hello all, Here's the story -- I've been DM'ing a group of 5 guys for about two years now (currently D&D 3.5E). The campaign's been going fine up until a few months ago, when it began to stall out because three of the players have been working at jobs with bizarre...

I own two sets of the things, one of which I bought at a steep discount when the local Wizards store was closing out. They're in my regular rotation at the gaming table, though I would have to agree that the d20 takes forever to stop rolling. I've learned that if I'm going to use it, I need to...