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As a guide, I'll do it about as much as the players do it. More often than the players for less intelligent creatures, maybe less often for very clever creatures. But if the players find it appropriate to do at times, why shouldn't their foes?

There are times when a complete party kill is nice. It can certainly remind the players you mean business. But let's be realistic, a complete party kill can end a campaign, something that isn't usually desirable. Rather than fudge dice, my preferred method is make them pay a price but try to...

Many things change if the create meat ritual is much cheaper than a cow :) As I've said, further discussion would require a better definition of the problem. But while it is hard to define the exact balance without a better definition, clearly economics would affect the choices of rulers. And...

That's not the end of the economic discussion by any stretch though. Fine- walls are a good barrier for many threats but what exactly do you build? Given a set pot-o-money for military expenditures, do you build a wooden or small stone fort and spend the rest on a more mobile strike force...

My group and I sometimes talk about more human-centric campaigns but when it comes down to it, we usually end up more human than not but with plenty of non-humans. Partly, that's because we pick characters with a system that leverages figures painted by out in-house painter and he won't do a...

I love a good dark ages setting, which this certainly seems to be :) Seems like lots of potential to have hidden sources of power and knowledge that the players can uncover during their quests, hidden allies they can find all while gathering the lore and artifacts necessary to save the world...

I tend to think of a sandbox as a game where no matter what the players decide to do, the referee will go with it. For that reason, keeping the players in this adventure hub probably isn't a sandbox per se but why worry about that. It could be a fun setting with plenty of choices for the players...

I know you have a Linux laptop and someone already posted an equivalent to MS One-Note but I'm going to plug that for others reading the thread. You may have picked up one-note with one of the MS Office 2007 bundles and ignored it. I certainly did figuring it was just some lame Microsoft tool...

That picture sure brings back memories. I never had the original three books (my friends and I xerox'd them without any consideration for copyright) but I still keep the greyhawk book around nostalgic reasons. Think I still have the Gods & Demigods booklet too. And those dice... finally...

Sure, but I think of it more as fishing than foreshadowing- drop in some bait and see what the players bite on. If they like it, then I'll develop it. A few weeks ago, it was faerie dragons. I was just going to have an encounter with them but the players refused to fight them and eventually...

Aha! Now we know your secrets if we play in one of your PBEM games! But to answer your question, I don't generally repeat specific plots or such but you do find a large number of: Ghosts who reveal a plot, mystery or seek release (sounds similar to your use of them) Flying mounts, always had...

While Shaman's very historically based setting is not my cup of tea, it certainly gives him a wealth of information to draw on. I don't see why he can't run a "realistic" campaign. While my settings are more exotic, they are fairly realistic and the only reason they aren't more "realistic" is...

I tend toward the dramatic but gaming as an engineer with a bunch of engineers, we probably do go for "realism" more than in some groups. In the specific example of shooting the rope with one shot, I'm sure we would all allow that. But that might be more because we have seen it in so many...

I remember it vividly even though it was late 1976 or early 1977 and I was 13 or so. A friend asked me if I wanted to join him for a game. We were living at West Point (the military academy) at the time and the game was in the basement in one of the permanent officers quarters- a nice building...

Without knowing your setting economics, I'd give the price in relative terms. First off a true courtesan, whose services include art, conversation and much more beyond the physical, isn't cheap to start with, something only the rich can afford with any regularity. A succubus courtesan might be...

With 4E, more strictly myself. 4E seemed to remove some of the clutter which makes it easier to "go wtih the rules". And the longer I ref, the easier I find it to defer to the rules as much as possible. Yes, I can probably create a better rule in some situations but these days, I only bother if...

It occurred to me while reading the current thread on how to handle high ranked PCs (http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/274073-justifying-adventuring-when-youre-boss.html), that as best I can recollect in all the years I've played D&D, which does stretch back over 3 decades, I...

They seem fine on a number of fronts. Some ref's may have felt uncomfortable giving out XP for none-battle fights. I never did but it did always feel like I was swimming against the rules so that is nice. Something formal like this is also nice for more formal game settings like conventions...

As a wikidot user who loves it, just a little more to add to Jürgen's message. The wiki automatically generates the code above. All you the user do is enter the name of the parent page and it creates the breadcrumb code which is the title of the recursive parent page separated by the " » ". It's...

That's certainly a way to handle it and sounds like it worked fine. How did it work in your game group having one person be the king and the others lower ranked, I assume? While I haven't done for so long a time that I can't really remember how it went, I've played in a few games where the...