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Hmm, that's assuming there are no other low-level heroes in the region who might now be travelling along the road making their living killing orcs and taking their stuff.

aurin - You were asking about terminology I believe, so I'll try and drag the thread back on topic. :) Problem with the term "low magic" is that not all people give it the same meaning, which leads to confusion in many of the current discussions about magic levels in campaigns. There...

Two aspects IMO - battle grid for one, minis for another. I've always used a battle grid and counters to help visualise combat when I could (heck, the first RPG I ever played a genertion ago or so came with a pad of grid paper to draw dungeons on, some dice and little else) - but for a while...

Hi randomling - mind if I chip in, seeing that I know two of your PCs? (Not to mention look forward to meeting a third one on Thursday.) :) I've seen you play Jez and Cailin, and I can't believe that you say you're playing them too similarly. They are certainly very different to me, heck...

I voted Yes - I enjoy playing in S'mon's Borderlands game, which is rare magic and with the tough combat challenges S'mon creates on a regular basis manages grittiness without any change to combat rules. Like some other posters, I'd have preferred more poll options. For example, I didn't...

:cool: Thank you. I thought you were doing a brilliant job living on the knife edge last session - fighting on even when down to 0hp with no half-way competent healer in sight was heroic. Glad Jez made it. :)

DM's notes: The drum the party escorted/carried was one of five the Elves in Heren-Nín by then knew about - but indeed the only one recovered whole. During the questioning at Heren-Nín, the Elves asked Jez (but no one else) a large number of strange questions about herself, her family and Hamra.

[Tane's account, by Tane's player: ] The negotiations with Dimgol had been completed. Tane gave a sigh of relief. As usual, the gnome was a hard bargainer. Tane still didn’t know who got the better of whom but most of the people in the group either received what they wanted or were going to...

[Intro for upcoming session posted to players: ] Asking around for a safe travelling route towards Caradul, you learn the following: There's currently much fighting along Felthera, all the way upriver from the Black Weir at the forest border to the Keep of the Cataracts. There is little river...

:) The sheep didn't surprise me (although it did make me laugh). What surprised me was that for the second time in a row Eloise reacted a lot smarter than I'd have expected her to. That woman can't only spot a witch in bat shape, she can spot a witch who isn't actually there! Scary ...

Hmm. Have you considered moving away from large dungeons to a variety of scenarios set in towns, wilderness areas etc, with shorter dungeons sprinkled in? If the dungeon isn't much bigger than your party's resources they may decide to push on regardless, or will have to rest only once before...

What if you weave in a second mystery the solution of which is hidden down somewhere in the mines? With a clue to be found (SPOILER)up on the mountain (/SPOILER)where the solution for the main mystery lies. This leaves the PCs free to choose their path of action while giving them an...

[OOC note: The following is an account of Fjorent of Beskarn's recent spirit journey. Unlike some stuff I've created freeform in the past for other characters, this is actual content from an actual RP session.] Witch’s Hour in Scorn’el The chalk screeches on the floorboards as the star...

Same here.

That's so part of the creative process - mutually influencing each other and coming up with parallel ideas, each on their own. :) It is one of the reasons why whether something is in fact a plagiarism of someone else's work can be a tricky question to answer when there are similarities present...

No, on the contrary. Quick travel is one of the features of a high-level campaign, I think it's important for the DM to run with that. Of course there will be areas you can't teleport straight into because defences have been set up against that sort of thing. In a world that has teleporting...

Loren's account Loren pulls out a scroll and starts writing. Dearest Alhana, I am sorry that I have not written to you for a few months, I know I promised to write every fourweeks but I have been so busy! I miss you so much and think of you every day. I have not told anyone this but I had...

I'll use bits of graphic detail to highlight dramatic events in combat, such as an important death - and sometimes to convey how badly damaged a foe or ally appears to be. That's it. I want a fast, highly focussed pace for combat (as far as possible with spellcasters in the group, who always...

So true! Both for LC's writing and the utter lack of scariness of his stories .... :)

Tane's account Fortunately, the journey North was uneventful. The group again settled into a routine. The two scouts taking point and rearguard with the others paying particular attention to the snow elf on the travois. She was feverish, tossing and struggling at times then alternating with...