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Hah, thanks. I just sent you an e-mail about this (sort of). Let me know what you think. And thanks for the tips on Future and Spycraft. I may thumb through those in the gaming store tomorrow. NCSUCodeMonkey

I'm toying with having one of my encounters in an upcoming session be in zero gravity. Are there any good d20 sources out there for zero g combat? I know that I could just consider everyone to be flying, or somesuch, but I think it'd be cool if there were some other environmental factors. If...

I voted "let the dice fall where they may," because that's how I DM my normal week to week game. The campaign is lethal, the fights are lethal, so it'd be silly to fudge. There has to be some threat of death, after all. Last session that resulted in three characters going unconcious and one...

Crap! Well, regardless of the game day, I hope you stay safe and dry! NCSUCodeMonkey

OK. Makes sense, and that's essentially how I ruled it.

Apologies. The attack did not come during a surprise round, but during an already active combat. The character did not know the attacker was there until the bull-rush was initiated. NCSUCodeMonkey

This came up last session, and I'm curious as how the rules work on this? In our session, a ranger bullrushed a character from hiding (he was behind an illusion of a wall). How do the AoO's play out in this scenario? Does the surprised character get one? NCSUCodeMonkey

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Yeah, if they dig their own grave, they're on their own. NCSUCodeMonkey

That's true, to a certain extent, but the DM is not perfect and the players are not predictable. Like, in my last session the players walked right into a planned encounter (getting ambushed by some cultists) and did a perfectly reasonable thing: they captured the cultists and took them to the...

This is certainly one of the best ways to improve your skills. Also, and I'm surprised no one's really mentioned it, READ ENWORLD :). I pick up a new idea, DMing tip, experience, etc. every day by just browsing the general forum for an hour. It's worth the time. One thing that I'm working...

I have no idea how well it works, but http://www.direkobold.com/ generates the encounters in their adventures based on parameters from your campaign. So you can set the number of characters in your party and their average level and the adventure changes accordingly. NCSUCodeMonkey

I've seen druids played effectively without focusing on wildshape, their spells are so versatile that it's hard for them to be ineffective. That being said, I do think it's worth it to at least pick up the wildshape casting feat. Wildshape is about more than changing into a bear and wading into...

I want enough backstory so that when the PCs do something completely outside of the realm of the printed adventure, I can extrapolate what should happen. If all I've got is a bunch of encounters with boxed text, stats, and "when the players go here, X happens," it's really difficult to make...

I'm going to have to disagree. Every animal companion that I have ever seen has been disgustingly effective. I've also seen druids combine Awaken and leadership to gain even more deadly companions. Bears with levels of barbarian or fighter are quite nasty. With the Druid that I'm playing...

I just read several reviews of the Hamlet of Thumble, and that sounds really close, but it also seems to contain a lot of new classes, spells, etc. (according to one review, more than half of the product). An adventure that contains those things isn't necessarily bad, but if it takes up more...

Maybe there's already a product out there doing this, but I'd like to see adventures with a new format. What I mean is that most of the adventures that I own have a linear or flow-chart based plot with supporting NPCs, maps, etc. But that's not the stuff that I spend most of my time on when I...

I'm doing a similar thing with my old DM's setting right now. Basically, I stole his homebrew (a fantasy redition of Romano-Britain) and added in a bunch of elements from the BCCS to get the right amount of "grit." I'm keeping it low magic by making it virtually impossible to be a wizard and by...

I don't understand it either, truthfully. When I met my wife, I told her that I didn't expect her to stop hanging out with her friends, and I certainly wasn't going to stop hanging out with mine. I continued to game while we dated, and eventually she started playing with us. I mean, I know I got...

Most certainly :D