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Shadowslayer, if you haven't, you'd be well served to post that over at Dragonsfoot too - there are plenty of C&C gamers there that do not come to ENWorld (It is the home of the C&C society after all).

But the key, IMHO is that they have to be able to sum up an interesting plotline in a page or two - like someone said, no novels - and then get into some interesting encounter areas. It's a big job, but doable. I own many modules I never finished reading and will never make my campaigns. I...

Simple facts. - I don't know of a long-term game that kept out expansions, just like none of those DMs who told me "I'll never go to 3.5" are still playing 3.0. - WoTC removed all direct references to "This is the GM's world and he makes all final decisions" out of the game. - CR/EL and...

I feel for you guys. I'll offer what I can... For Tabletop there are several resources that are focused. You can advertise in these forums for D20. You can hit Dragonsfoot for older versions of the game. You can hit K&C's boards for D20 and their games. You can hit AccessDenied.net and do a...

I like to write. I like fiction. I'm foolish enough to think I'm good at it. What the heck, count me in. I haven't had a good ego whipping in a few months :D

I haven't had experience with Midnight, but otherwise, your buy list is my buy list. Just got Castle Zagyg, Yggsburgh today. Some of the best stuff TL has put out yet. Still waiting on my copy of Wilderlands, my FLGS seems to be having distributor problems.

I think you're dead-on Adwyn. Statements about printed modules not generally being profitable make me wonder if they would be by extension because you're cross marketing other things to the players that are running through them.

I'm in the "it was cool" category. When word went out on Dragon's Foot that the ad was placed, we went down to our FLGS and bought our first copy of Drogon in... Forever, just to have the ad. Picked up DMG II while we were there too :D

I give them the trail of warnings, and then let them die if the dice fall that way. Generally speaking, horrendously bad luck or failure to plan kills more PCs in my games than taking on tough adversaries. I had a PC the other night deal out a horrendous amount of damage to herself with...

I was thinking that :D

Overall, I think the market will shrink in terms of providers simply because they're all fishing for dollarfish in the same pond, and the number of fishermen is increasing faster than the pond is being stocked. My overall spending hasn't changed a ton, but I'm more cautious about all game...

I'm black-box at the table, but we have websites for all of my worlds, and in-character letters sometimes go out between NPCs so that players have a feel for what is going on in the world. If a duke has had his life threatened by a particular type of person, that duchy is likely to be hostile...

I've got groups that need to be practically railroaded, and ones that can't be herded at all, just the nature of the beast, different folks like different things. One of the freeform groups was passing through the only real city in the unsettled lands and noticed that one of the evil cults was...

And I add bards - since most crews had musicians anyway.

While I agree with the assessment of DL, I disagree with the sentiment that RPGs can't do epic stories. You just have to have a GM that makes the epic story fit the characters and the world. I don't think they make good premade modules, I think the epic adventure happens in context. Many of my...

I'm really surprised so many people complained about RL and DL and it took this long for this one to come up. Complete and utter stupidity. Follow it with another winner - Needle. Another one where they thought "let's introduce some Sci Fi into your fantasy world complete with idiotic aliens...

Here here! I think that people get too wrapped up in "that's the rules!" Crap. People change the rules in Monopoly, even Solitaire. Why do some people have this love affair with "everything is perfect in DnD rules"? I use the rules, they do not use me.

You're dead on there. The problem is that IMHO they went too far after making a solid rule of a "rule of thumb". To each his own, I cut them back to "AoOs apply in the situations that similar rules applied in older versions, and might apply at other times, depending upon situation. Much of this...

Yeah, my problem with all of that is that it slows the game. I keep it as simple as possible while still offering some of the flavor AoOs offer. In short, I played with 'em as-written, and they create a meta-gaming nightmare even with good players. Not my style of game, so I went back to my...

I always feel this way. But it does keep me motivated to do more.