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I'm an old school DM. PCs are the stars, and NPCs are props. You shouldn't have a "GM's NPC there to save them". If things get bad, then PCs end up DEAD. If you screwed up the encounter and really want to "help" them, then you should think of some other more "subtle" way to adjust things...

If you're excited about your plans, and your players are excited about their characters, then I think you'll do fine. It's all about having fun. If your game turns out to be too hard and complex to DM, you can always try restarting with something simpler next session. My tip is to be...

Entering the General forum, most of the screen (or even all of it at lower resolutions) is currently occupied by dozens of lines full of feature-links, info-blurbs, announcements, ads, and other distractions. The meat of the enormously popular and oft-used General forum, it's "threads", are...

Uh oh, you mean the Khorvaire map is that blank version again? (same as the downloadable file from wizards website?) The one without all the words & labels for the cities, roads/rail-lines, territory/location names, etc?? :(

Breland sounds alot like the US. Not only is it a populous freedom-loving industrial nation, there's a passage in the book about "spreading liberty and democracy through force of arms" You can also see a similarity between the coastal metropolises of New York and Sharn "the City of Towers".

We used the house rule you refer to. It was seamless to incorporate it into the rules. 10 minute turns, 1 minute rounds, and 6 second segments. However, in melee, a melee round equals one segment. There was already some precedent; parties could do a full round of actions during all the...

There are very few 1st-3rd level modules out there that are unique and interesting. For example, as was stated before, most of these adventures end up having the same group of monsters, over and over. At mid to higher levels, there are so many parts and tools available by that point (feats...

Great idea to have a little memorial page. Angelsboi's pic could be the one that he had of himself in his avatar for a long while; the one where he's sitting in front of the computer. And to include an anecdote to make it more personalized, you might somehow segue-in a comment about David...

Wow. That is really powerful stuff. Thank you.

It's a neat idea, but realistically speaking, there's no way I would buy such a thing. The only part that intrigued me were the previous hints about extra content, such as rules clarifications or notes in the margins. But I don't see any mention of extra content in the current preview, so my...

Since the same question was asked here day-before-yesterday, I'll just refer you to my post in the previous thread: <linky-linky> :D

Cheesy for me would be "not high drama or high art, and not to be taken seriously; just pure basic fun!" - Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Master of the Flying Guillotine (the one with the old blind man and his decapitator-hat-on-a-chain, plus kareem abdul jabbar with 15' long arms, the...

I'm not familiar with the story, I've only seen the trailer. Looks great to me. I can't wait to see it. :D Should be the best action movie this summer, outside of perhaps Spidey. The only problem with the trailer is that they "appear" to have revealed most of the plot progression and left...

Roll em; if the result is less than half, bring it up to half (i.e. 2/4, 3/6, 4/8, 5/10, 6/12). Sometimes I use max hp for 1st-3rd level. I've found more hp to be more fun, and so have the players. Even with generous hp, the party still spends most of their time running around half dead or...

Don't forget Paul S.Kemp's upcoming trilogy of novels set in the world of Midnight. I have no idea when the first comes out, but I would guess early 2005?

Aha, but that's the beauty of cut-scenes too! The DM doesn't have to give anything away at all! :D If you were so inclined, you could use a cut-scene to befuddle your group, throw them a red-herring, or show them another obscure piece of a complex puzzle that they don't understand yet, etc...

Dawnforge is nice, it has alot of good new ideas. I'm glad I got the book. I don't think I'll be running a Dawnforge campaign though. Midnight is by far the best setting ever. Nothing even comes close. Every gamer should have a copy on their bookshelf, and play in at least one Midnight...

I too use cut-scenes, and my players love them. :D And yep, the idea came from the old WEG Star Wars hardcover, which does a great job of explaining how to do them properly. As long as you keep the scenes short, the meta-gaming repercussions are usually harmless. It's all in good fun...

You mean some people say "Booley-wug" :confused: If you use "oooh", then why not go all the way, just call it a "Booley-woog" :p *scratches head* DM: "As the party enters the dungeon, you see an evil booley-woog emerging from a side corridor, followed by a boogbear, a roost monster, a...

Hrm. In the DMG under "Environment", it says: Drowning Any character can hold her breath for a number of rounds equal to twice her Constitution score. That would make the situation significantly easier, since it only takes 10 rounds to remove almost any armor (cept platemail), so there'd likely...