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These sound interesting. I love plain vanilla fantasy. Where can I get more info on these plain vanilla settings?

Excellent points one and all. If a female player wanted to play a Joan of Arc-type, she would be more than welcome to-in fact, it would probably make for some great role-playing. And, as I've said, while there may be many places that discriminate against women and demihumans, there are just as...

This is so, so true. Surely it can't be that hard to write a good story where the protagonists are only 6th-8th level, don't have all sorts of weird templates or abilities, and don't wield masterwork or magical items, and yet still use some of the recognizable D&D monsters and races? Why...

Lots of interesting posts all around. First off, the paladin example is, as several people pointed out, unfair unless the paladin knows this beforehand. Such things would, of course, be explained to the paladin's player-that the slaughter of humanoids is not only condoned, but viewed as a...

This is a thread about the differences in morals and norms between our real world and the game world. Namely, what should be done about differences between them. How should we as DMs and players handle these sorts of things? Examples: 1) Paladin is part of an adventuring band clearing out...

One thread recently posted on here talks about the suckiest monster concepts ever submitted to D&D. That begs the question: What are the coolest, most original monster concepts ever made for D&D? What makes them good? What makes them original? Well?

As we all know, D&D has lifted a lot of its monsters from both ancient myth and more modern fiction. This thread is to propose and discuss monsters that may not yet have been adapted, but might still make cool concepts for monsters. My own initial thoughts are some of the creations of...

This illustrates the major difference between fiction and gaming plots: In writing fiction, you take the players out of the equation, and put complete control of the DM/author. A novel doesn't need to be bound by the strictures of gaming: With no players, it's less likely someone will...

Well, as was just pointed out, Buffy gave other characters a great deal of screen time and development of their relationships, and some of them definitely grew in power as time went on. Some characters would be written out of storylines, and new ones would appear and be worked into the story...

Apparently what I consider "D&D fantasy" is different from what others view it as. What I had in mind was rather the telling of stories that may or may not have to do with adventurers, only based in a setting with dragons, elves and wizards. I see no reason why classical stories and legends...

I think I'm on a different wavelength than many people. For me, "D&D Fantasy" doesn't mean writing a novel as if it were a campaign-it means using all the standard elements of the genre (magic, sentient nonhuman races, medieval weapons and armor, a pseudo-medieval setting based on the 11th-15th...

Alas, you may well be right. Part of me just enjoys having the elves, orcs and wizards around-if I write fantasy, I _want_ those dwarves, gnomes, elves, and halflings in there. Writing fantasy in a world with just humans would, quite frankly, be rather boring. And, again, chances are it...

And just why is that?!? Where is it divinely ordained that a sufficiently skilled author couldn't write something with characterization and depth to match "War and Peace", "Paradise Lost", or Shakespeare?!? Is it just because of the poor quality of many role-playing novels so far? Is that...

My ideal fusing of FR and GH would not be an actual fusion of characters, countries, and what have you, but rather a fusion of ideas. I'd be exorcising the things most GH fans find objectionable about FR, and redoing them along GH lines, or at least what many GH fans claim are their favorite...

Some of the points have already been made here: -No chance to affect the outcome: Boom, it happens, there's exactly two things players can do to stop it: Jack and squat. They nuked many interesting nations (Tenh, Geoff, the Bandit Kingdoms, the Wild Coast, the Horned Society, etc.), all in...

I like Hill Giants. They never bathe, they drink like fishes, they belch out loud, they pick their teeth at the dinner table, they have farting contests, they scratch themselves in public, they have farting contests, their major hobbies consist of smashing things with blunt objects and lazing...

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Heheheh, and here I always thought the storyline presented by the modules was better than the one written by Weis and Hickman. They essentially turned Riverwind and Goldmoon into ballast, killed Flint for absolutely no reason... ...but I digress. I'm just saying that, if all the characters...

I remember a while ago on the old Web RPG forums about a guy who initially ran the Slave Lords supermodule, having all four modules in a single booklet. This guy read through the text, which apparently had the players getting captured in deus ex machina manner, and then the text explicitly said...

In real life, many priests can be found preaching sermons every week, handing out food at soup kitchens, counselling convicts and the homeless, peforming marriages, teaching children, performing baptisms, hearing confessions, and everything in between. That doesn't leave a lot of time for...