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Might I suggest something? Marut. Have the wish bring them back just fine, but their use of magic to avoid death attracts the attention of a Marut Inevitable (3.5MM p.159), who hounds them and demands that they correct the balance of life and death - by dying. I would craft it so that they...

DM every Sunday at roughly 4 hours each session taking holidays and other off weeks into account = roughly 190 hours Play every other week at roughly 6 hours each session taking holidays and other off weeks into account = roughly 156 hours Gen-con every year, roughly 8 sessions at roughly 4...

I generally run long campaigns so I start everyone at 1st to give the players a true sense of growth and accomplishment when they look back at the end. My favorite level span is 6th-12th, so if I were to run a one-off or a short campaign, I'd start somewhere in there. One thing about really...

In the group I DM for the average age has varied quite a bit as players come and go, but I'm almost always on the younger side of the curve (I'm 29). In fact when I first started running five years ago, I was the second youngest person in the group. The oldest person is in his 50s and has been...

I've done this a couple of times. Once when the PC's were going into a dungeon I wanted to be brutal, I had multiple NPCs give them ominous warnings and tell stories about the other heroic parties that had been slaughtered by the place...that worked very well, the players and their PCs quickly...

From the appendix of The Return of the King: 'In the last years of Denethor I the race of uruks, black orcs of great strength, first appeared out of Mordor, and in 2475 they swept across Ithilien and took Osgiliath.' While the word 'Uruk' seems to be a Black Speech word that just means...

There seem to be several different species and sub-species in Middle-earth The standard orc, seems to be roughly (very roughly) the equivalent of a D&D orc, although arguments could be made about strengths and weaknesses. It appears, for instance, that LotR orcs are more affected by sunlight...

No matter what you forget or remember, as long as everyone at the table had fun, you succeded. :)

From the first post: "Scripted actions" sounds less like general tactics and more like specific round-by-round listings of a monsters...well...actions. Maybe it's just me, but a whole book of that seems like a little much.

I guess my problem is that the idea of a book with round-by-round tactics for a huge number of monsters just seems like a big waste because, as has been mentioned, there is no way that such write-ups can account for the infinite ingenuity of players. Now, maybe if the book focused more on...

Why not? I'm sure there were many other worlds to destroy. I have another... In a game I played at Boy Scout camp one year (now that's a merit-badge!) where our 4th level party was sent to Hell: one party member promptly fell into the Styx, another two were killed by an Osyluth, two more were...

What was I thinking... In a planes game I ran, the party met a bartender in Sigil whose father was a Teifling and whose mother was an Asimar. His name was Typhus the Teifamar. The party instantly began calling him Typhus the Asling. That possibility had never crossed my mind. He died a...

Or, in this case: "No plan survives contact with the players"

Gee, you said that so much better than I did...I should just change my post to: "What EricNoah said" :lol:

I tend to have this problem mainly with monsters/NPCs with lots of spells or spell-like abilities. I can't tell you the number of times I've been looking over the spells something could cast after the combat was over and I slap myself on the forehead because I missed something that would have...

The Wizard of Stavin (no proper name) is a mad chronomancer that exists simultaneously at all points in time; meaning that one could encounter both a young, low power version and an old, powerful version at the same time. Cheldia, a White dragon Dracolich sorceress, has the penchant for walking...

Saughin, or however you spell it.

My recent favorite is the Marilith. Illusion spells, Blade Barrier, and six attacks make it a DM's joy...the fact that she and her wartroll (MM3) were wearing Friend-Shield rings did help a little. :]

And every single one will have the stats listed in this thread...wow, what a nasty tourist trap...

Are you and I talking about the same person? ;) (see my previous post) This must be relatively common. A player is jaded and bored to the point where characters, even new ones, don't hold his interest, but for some reason he can't seem to just let the game go for a while and find something...