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Term reminds me of a time where it was quite literal in my friend's campaign. Coastal island fort with ocean moat, and one of my fellow players remarked, "Not gonna be any cool moat monster here is there?" snidely to the DM. We did not survive the flying sharks...

I once had a campaign in which the realm of dream played a major role as a secondary adversarial presence stirred up by the machinations of the BBEG. After awakening a long dormant nest of dream larvae (epic lvl handbook) and sparking a war between them and the lords of the Quori (little bit of...

As the thread name implies I am gearing up to run a 6 person party through this most wonderful series of magazines after finally managing to acquire the first issue in it's continuity (Dungeon 139) at exorbitant markup at this late date. I also have the printed player's guide from Paizo but had...

One more for both M&M and Savage Worlds. Delightful side dishes to the main course of fantasy RPG (Pathfinder and some 4e).

I agree that the difficulty of "winging it" increased with the iterations of editions (particularly so for 3e I found), but I find it still possible to sandbox fairly effortlessly with products such AEG's Toolbox and Ultimate Toolbox, as well as Goodman Game's Dungeon Alphabet (I loves me some...

1. The system expects and requires that PCs have tons of magic items as they get to higher levels. Without them, the non-casters can't handle CR-appropriate encounters and are even more disadvantaged compared to the casters. 2. I hope I never have a DM that thinks like you, though if I did I...

Players got too many items? Disjunction is my function. May sound mean and capricious but once you have established "attacking the loot" as viable form of combat then the game becomes somewhat self-policing as the villains an PCs establish cycle of loot circulation (I keep track of total GP...

Another vote here for both Castles & Crusades and Savage Worlds. Both really solid systems mathematically with logical power curves and a ferocious rate of play, bust out 5-8 encounters in 3 hour sessions at times. C&C I find best for the almighty delve and exploring old modules of yore...

I got my PC's pretty terrified of the "Inverted Yellow Y" symbol the cultists bore in the Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil module (and that isn't even Tharizdun's real holy symbol, was dark spiral if I remember aright). Also, trait in Pathfinder for holy symbol birth mark and a player...

Two words. Craft (Taxidermy)

I'll weigh in my support for the slayer's guide to Bugbears, one of my favorite takes on my favorite iconic monsters aside from the one in Paizo's Classic Monsters Revisited and a perfect way to keep even mid level pc's shaking in their boots.

Aid and abet it. Am I the only DM here who gets players pissed off with overly wacky NPCs? Like the Hadozee (winged monkey-man) whose dialog I lifted almost verbatim from Jar-Jar in episode 1? So vexing he inspired my players to blow THREE genie wishes from saving the city of brass on...

While I do not play 4e I might be willing to invest in quality APs if you actually do manage to incorporate even a modicum of these constructive criticisms, as I'm always in the market for imagination fuel. Suggestions: 1) Rampant rumors and red herrings, not enough of these in the 4e modules...

3d6 for each stat in order, with 6 bonus die pool which can be utilized as desired in any of these rolls discarding all but the highest 3 die. Swap any two stats reroll 1 if necessary. I feel this creates characters of an appropriate power level as well reinforcing the idea these characters...

Well I'm of the mind that 2ed and previous (having pretty brutal power curves) go together with terrifying disfigurement tables like peanut butter and chocolate. So my gold was mostly in the "put your dude into retirement or maybe back together" fund.

Hello everybody, long time lurker first time poster. I was wondering if anybody else here has the player's roll all the dice as I do, I find this increases engagement by a considerable margin (Defense rolls when it's not their turn, attacks on monsters defense against spells [spectacularly funny...