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In my current group, we have 4 guys and 3 girls. It is amazing what they come up with. They think outside the box and are very clever. We have a Minotaur Frenzied Beserker, Elven Rogue and Elven Ranger. In another group that I play in we have 3 girls(different girls) and 5 guys. This group is...

Otik's spiced potatoes are really good, just had to add more papricka for my tastes. Worse yet, Harry Potter will be this generations LoTR. I picked up the first volume of the DL trilogy about 2 weeks after it was out. A buddy of mine (and my first DM) was extolling the virtues of...

What makes a man turn neutral anyway? Serious consequences needed to be handed out. Loss of spellcasting, some geas to perform, wall rebuilding, and a serious fine. You may need to talk to player out of session and see what was going on. A reading of the alignment system is also in order. If he...

I use a laptop off to the side. It works great to pull up an NPC in a moments notice. Our current adventure has the same race, but different levels and classes. I just pop open a tab with all the different ones, and toggle to it when something comes up. All the master character sheets are on...

A good setting will help drive adventures. when the party goes off in a direction you didn't expect, the DM should have an idea what lies that way.

Has to make sense and PrC classes can't outnumber "core classes". I'm playing a Monk2/Sorcerer4/Sacred Fist4. The PrC seemed to be designed for this kind of multiclassing. Another player plays a ranger/Tempest. DM ruled that has to hit ranger levels that give twf bonus and then can take a...

Back in first edition days, we finished the Ravenloft module. Unbeknownsted to me, my character had been possessed by Strahd himself. After about 2 months my character starts doing things I wasn't aware of. Took a long time to get him out. Very fun.

Wow I missed the no bouncing rule. 3.5 is new, but I grew up with 1st and 2nd editions. Thanks for the link.

Last session the party is next to a building, at night, in the desert. 10th level caster casts lightning bolt off the side of a building. (Bank shot to get a line of bad guys) The question is how much noise does a lightning bolt make, and would bouncing it off the wall wake the inhabitants...

Mostly standing is the way to go. It gets the players attention when you stand up. Sit down when they are planning strategy for the orc camp ambush. When they say they are done, stand up and set up the encounter. Battle maps are good and you can walk around and place all the figures.

Prep time has gone down since the birth of daughter 2 years ago. Now I have the next three adventures in mind. I finish up the next few levels that I think the party will get to. Basically have an outline and fill in the blanks as game night approaches. Prep is one of the things that I love to...

Are you still playing the original box set? Are you still playing the same characters you did then too? Things change. If you enjoy Greyhawk then enjoy the new product. All I am saying is I don't want it to be brought back as the default setting

But what your saying is that you want the original walkman not an ipod, you want vcr's instead of dvd's you want 70's Hi Karate instead of Drakkar. It's been done already. 30 years is was a good run. Let it go man. I just don't want to see Greyhawk as the default setting. A one off is fine and...

Please let someone pull the plug on Greyhawk. I didn't like it on 1987 and I still don't like it now. I know this is just my opinion, and some people still love it. I would just like to see more energy spent on a new, non-Eberron setting. I hope 4th will introduce something new. Back when...

In current game, me and a buddy take turns running the campaign. I run a couple of adventures, then he runs a couple. We each have a character. I notice that when I am DM'ing my character takes a back seat. His character does the same. Works well we develop the campaign overview together.

I kinda like the idea, but will probably house rule it that only "socketed" items can use the crystals. This will help me limit it until I can see it in action. If I like it, I can use a quest to unlock the secret for all weapons. If I don't like it then only a few weapons will be out there.

Getting the first class to about 12 or 13 and then you take your next class. At that point you are fighting 12th and 13th level monsters. So a couple of encounters and you have 10K XP. That 10,001 XP got you 4th level magic user in just a few days. 10,001 got you 5th level as thief. Not too...

Had a ranger in the group who ate dirt. Had a gnome who would flick copper pieces at anyone. The player would practice with pennies between his thumb and forefinger. He got pretty good and would flick pennies at players if they took too long deciding something.

1st was all about the dual classing. I remember a 15 Ranger/16 Archer (from Dragon), a 16 Cleric/18 Magic user. With the experience points and level progression going back to 1st level, It was nothing to move up from 1st to 10th in a hurry. Take about 10 levels of Fighter to beef up the hit...

I took out the penalties in my game with a few exceptions. No PrC can be higher than the base core class and no more than 2 PrC's. I hate the idea of taking 1 level of a PrC class just to get a bonus. Also any PrC has to make sense for the character.