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Anyone can put a poison needle in the lock of a chest, or put a bed of poisoned spikes beneath a revolving pit, provided they have enough skill. But surely there are more clever ways of laying a trap? What are some of the most creative traps you've placed as a DM, or faced as a player...

RIP, Mr. Gygax. We never met face-to-face, but we corresponded a few times. I just want to thank you for all the creative inspiration you've given me over the years. In the game itself, campaigns may end and heroes die, but their memories will live forever. So too will it be for you.

In the past, I've tried to detail the world of Greyhawk beyond the Flanaess, but I ended up scrapping what I had written because, without a map to give it some substance, it all just seemed hollow, contrived and cliched. I have some images in my head of what the various parts of the world would...

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Because, let's face it, going into every single dungeon for the exact same reason can get kind of redundant. What other reasons have you as DM, or your DM if you're a player, come up with to motivate players to go on a dungeon crawl? This is one of the cool things about the original...

This reminds me of something EGG wrote in the 1E DMG about how things like livestock, arrows, oil, armor, and all that would be worth a fair amount of money to the right buyers, on page 92. -In a farm-based economy, pigs and cows might well be worth more to a farmer than soft metal that isn't...

To be able to live in the lap of luxury-fine wine, women, gambling...or you could send some of the money to causes you care about-donating it to a knighthood or a church, paying off the debts of your friends...stockpiling it as a nest egg for when you retire...paying for a castle and keep, and...

Uh. maybe. But what if you as a DM want to maintain the integrity of the setting, keeping the number of magical goodies strictly limited, even for the BBEGs?

A lot of interesting-and humorous-replies. It's nice to see that the lower-value metals like copper and silver aren't neglected. In response to jdrakeh: Remember that a lot of treasure hoards are created from wealth stolen from other places. If copper and silver coinage are more common than...

What happens if your DM doesn't allow magic shops in his campaign, so you can't buy a magic item, no matter how much cash you wave around?

Your players are looting the monsters' treasure hoard, and they find that a lot of it is silver and copper. What do they do with it? Do they ignore it, taking only the choicest, most portable items? Do they take only as much as they might need? Do they get greedy and take every last...

You and your companions have fought and slain the orc chieftain and his minions. The male orcs are all dead. Then you encounter the orcish women and children, who don't fight. What do you do with them? Some points to consider: -Would it be evil to slaughter them, given that they are...

Well, if I were to game, which I don't, then I'd be more tolerant of many things, my POV being that it's the DM's game, and he has the right to tailor his setting as he sees fit. I might not be overly fond of such elements, but I'd suck it up and play along. Now, if I were to run a game...

I think one of the major problems of applying a Deconstruction/Critique here is, yet again, the presence of sentient non-human creatures. Comparisons between D&D worlds and our own often seem to neglect this crucial difference. In the case of Keep on the Borderlands and Against the Giants...

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Technically, this isn't D&D, but rather the Fighting Fantasy Gamebook system, which explains the differences in the orcs here... One popular game is "Orc Knees", a twisted version of volleyball. Two teams of seven players each are organized, chosen from a reserve squad of twenty. They line up...

And they are well-taken. I think I made the mistake of judging the dragons I've actually seen statted out in game products-most of which are in that stereotype I mention and that others picked up on-and basing it on all that. The problem may be less with dragons than the way they're...

In other threads I've contributed to. Because I use D&D and its tropes as a basis for narrative fiction, not gaming. For whatever reason, plain vanilla D&D stimulates my imagination more than most other fictional settings. I don't game, but I do like my fiction to at least somewhat...

As I've said before, I don't game. And I was asking this as much as an inquiry to see if anyone else felt this way. And it does seem to be something of a problem-dragons tend towards the BBEG end of the spectrum, and guys like frankthedm, green slime, and S'mon all have beefs of their own...