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Don't know how I did it, but it looks pretty cool. Sorry 'bout that.

Hello and welcome, Ross. "Brief 28-year hiatus"...welcome back is more like it. A lot of us are coming back. It's cool. :cool: I have a suggestion for your party's motivation. Coup d'etat. Rowan Atkinson's "The Black Adder", episode 6 featured the "Black Seal", a group of the six most...

I got all weepy, sure. Reading his "Up On A Soapbox" column in early Dragon magazines helped shape my DMing style, and left me with a (perhaps undeserved) feeling that I knew him, or at least would like to meet him. I heard about his death the day before I heard about a dear lady who used to...

What a great idea! My group meets midnight fridays after one player, our building's assistant manager, gets off work. Co-incidentally we've invited a new couple to this week's game; she has some old-school AD&D experience and he's a total n00b. ;) Now I've gotta put a dungeon-crawl in there...

I think the concept of "turning" is certainly iconic enough to justify some kind of mechanic. Plus, I've always enjoyed "encouraging" my players to RP their turning attempts. "You call that turning? That wouldn't turn a swatted fly! C'mon, Sister, show me some holy fire! BRANDISH that holy...

My "4-hour sessions" usually last five or six. Sometimes they'll go an hour or two longer. Back in AD&D days we'd have "beer & pretzels" games that would go 12-14 hours, but they were pretty random. Easy to DM. Just last fall I DMed a 10 1/2 hour session. Our weekly game starts midnight...

I'll add my voice to the "Pre-order" crowd. In fact, I'm going to show this thread to one of my players. (The impulsive one with lots of disposable income, of course. :] )

Well, in a nutshell: The part of role-playing I enjoy most is simply- all of it. Character creation, background story, number-crunching. Leveling up, gaining power and getting cooler . That first magic item. Strategizin' with the party and talkin' smack to NPCs. Even the bittersweet sigh...

Happy about the move to add anime and videogame elements? Yeah, actually. I'm a prodigal AD&Der brought back to the fold by 3.5's ruleset. The people I game with now, about 5-10 years younger than me, are as familiar and comfortable with these genres as I was with clanking armor and robed...

I'm in no particular hurry to purchase 4ed., as I still have so many unused 3.5 ideas. I started in the red box/blue box days and enjoyed AD&D until life got in the way shortly before 2ed. A friend renewed my interest through D20 Star Wars. The streamlined D20 ruleset (certainly compared to...

I certainly try to, after all, that's the beauty of published modules. For a one-shot or novelty session it's pretty much straight out-of-the-box. Those that take place in my main campaign world will, of course, have names and locations changed to fit. But I try to keep as close as I can to...

My final, endgame BBEG's tend to be PC level +4 or more, but I voted +3 because by the time the PCs get to the final villain, they've encountered previous, lower-level villains from earlier in the game ("I've waited a long time for this!"). These lesser bad guys hold special items or secret...

I have two: Tease the Witch! This refers to the old TSR micro-game SAGA, about Norse-styled heroes competing for fame points (or something like that). One of the deadliest threats was a witch, who would cast two spells at the beginning of combat. One of these spells was the IS (Ice) spell...

Hello, all! This is my first time posting on any thread, any board, anywhere. Wow, this is exciting. I'm one of those 40-year old 1st Edition players. Back in the late 70's-mid 80's I played AD&D with my high school chums in Washington state, back when TSR was in Wisconsin. I was pulled...