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Its in the background. Kitchens can be found in every dungeon, boxed text routinely mentions food on the tables, chambers pots have been used as weapons and effluent filled sewers are common enough pathways, but as others have said there is no need to dwell upon the minutia unless it is...

And if the orcs are "out there" then there is somebody behind you who isn't paying their fair share of keeping the border safe. Make it clear, either they cough up or you make your own truce with the orcs, maybe even granting them safe passage in return for a share of the loot. It may even be...

I've spent the last hour trying to name two streets in a small subdivision. Its hard, most ideas seem taken, and this thread's given me inspiration. I'm going with Griffon and hippogriff - it's a commercial subdivision and no one cares anyway.

As a Realtor for nearly fifteen years, I have to agree with Devilbat. In fact this is my third attempt to respond to the post but I keep getting called away unexpectedly by clients who A) just had to see the place they were in front of "right now" (6 PM on a Saturday), B) realized they didn't...

One of the lenders I work with always sends out a weekly summary of loans in progress. Two of the abbreviations used are HP for home price and AC for appraisal completed followed by the appraiser code. An email that gives things like HP 275 and AC 39 in the suject line always catch my eye.

It is possible to get loans to purchase with very little down. In the US 3% is the most common down payment amount for houses under $250,000. Even poor credit (and don't mistake no credit with poor credit) will likely not torpedo you but rather set a higher interest rate. What is more important...

I am at work, as are both of my employees and several contractors. The only ones I give vets day off to are those who actually served.

I'm sorry, yes I meant that the new Axis and Allies minis are not compatible with the FOW which are 15's. I have plenty of both and they just don't match. Unfortunately WoTC seems to have chosen it's own scale. They're a little larger than Minifigs 10 mm (designed for N scale or 1/160) and...

A paladin's fall from grace (and return to) is an inherent part of the class, and I'd hate to see it removed from the game. But the straight stripping of all abilities doesn't make sense. In the past when I've had to impose some form of divine disfavor I've tried to keep it more in line with the...

Be forwarned that the Battlesystem tanks are not 15mm, closer to 12mm. Its no problem as long as you don't try mixing in other manufacturers. As to scale, I'd go with either the 1/" scale or a 1 cm scale, though the 1 cm scale may be a little too small. For an ersatz battlemat you can do the...

Anticipate what they will do, especially with regards to magic. Even if the PC's cannot cast some spells there may be NPC's who can. Perhaps a whole string of killings as the killer strikes down those who could reveal him, or he may bribe or threaten someone into lying which puts the PC's in the...

One of my clients sold a home a couple years ago and moved everything but the stuffed Grizzly because it was too large. He was supposed to drive back and get it, but things just kept coming up and one day I arrived at work to find the people who had bought the house had dropped it off in my...

What I've found is important is first to ty together the plot with what is being celebrated. Celebrating peace would involve the threat of war, a harvest festival might be endangered by a crop destroying swarm of insects, that sort of thing. Next I come up with various events for the festival...

Gender roles, not equality, is more often defined IMC, but I am more foregiving of those who cross the boundaries of the roles than would be historical. My goal is enough discrimination, be it gender, racial, or whatever, to make for good drama and plot without preventing anyone from playing the...

There are several different products available in the paint aisle at the hardware store, most are basically mineral spirits so go with what's cheap. Be forewarned that any attempt to remove the old adhesive will probably stain your floors even more than they are now. First, make sure your...

One our PC clerics once announced he was going to retire and spend his life on a beach casting continual light on grains of sand and hurling them into the sea. Now at least I know where he went.

Years ago I played in a campaign where the DM detested D&D's weapon terminology so he had his own - short swords for example were called Thigh swords because the blades were as long as a man's thigh, that sort of thing. So when the villagers warned us about bandits with hobbit swords we let...

For a while I allowed Detect Magic to reveal multiple schools, but multiple items sharing the same school stacked. Likewise wands and similar items with several charges sometimes showed up more powerful than they actual spells contained therein. All of that proved too much work and I've fallen...

I use the battlemap to draw out maps - not just combat encounters, but general area maps as well. The players rarely copy these down and if they do it's usually a flowchart style of map anyway. Sometimes I do draw up maps before the game to hand out, but a couple of sessions ago I knew they...

I have shelves full of games that are obsolete, at least in the sense that what they try to do has since (or sometimes even previously) been done better. Sure different isn't better and we've all seen revisions and 2nd (or 3rd/4th) editions that miss the boat completely, but for every "classic"...