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Episode 15: Departure time again *** The 7th of winter, Fireday, Year 712 Maka was roused by a hand on her shoulder and a quick shake awake the next morning. It was Regan, they had rented two rooms after she had agreed to join the group the previous night. They were sharing one, Kuloo and...

Just remembered another one. I've had players who freeze up whenever I describe anything with big words that they don't know. Apparently most things with more than three syllables are synonymous with "dangerous, let's slow down the game and use every tactic we can think of to avert danger."...

What are the weirdest ways you've seen players metagame I wonder? There's normal stuff of course, like "the DM's got her book open to the page on traps, we'd better roll to search for traps every step". But I'm wondering about the weirder, or the funnier, or the just-plain-illogical. I gave my...

Thanks for the page numbers. I do think those will help. I'm not going to risk suggesting he's inexperienced to his face though. I'd never hear the end of it and it'd just end up being more trouble for me. He's actually the most experienced player in the group by nearly ten years (which I never...

It's already done actually. They killed each other about a month ago.

Ahem, *coughSHEcough* Okay, now nitpicking aside... Again an idea I really like. I'd probably combine it with keeping a set of pre-rolls myself; I think that would work really well. I suspect his problem is that he has not dropped it. This is pretty much exactly the sort of thing I'm...

Really that's the weirdest? It's weird sure, but I've had worse. Like a player complaining when I wouldn't let his alchemist wield jars of live bees. Janx: Those are some good ideas, both the rolling in the advance and the actual creating a physical document detailing my rules.

I was running a game a few days ago, and the party was talking with an NPC. Now they didn't know it, but he was an NPC they'd been instructed to find, but the only description they'd been given of him was that he had a certain accent. When he was first talking to them, I gave each PC a roll...

The Deltora Quest series might be a bit young, so I'm not sure how many people will know of it, but it's given me plenty of good ideas for traps and puzzles over the last month since I've discovered it. The first 8 books of the series focus on a magic belt, and recovering the seven gems that...

I didn't know there was a change. Thanks. I believe most of them consider taking a turn in initiative order to be "taking an action" since they can still do something during that time. Pretty much. More specifically as far as I can tell they're saying that after any particular combatant has...

For my scenario I just assumed that either there was no surprise round (for some reason) or the rogue managed to successfully pull off the -20 stealth sniping roll twice. Either way, the point being is that by the end of round 1 she's still hidden. Hunh, every DM I've ever had who I've brought...

I'm either missing something here, or what I've got is a question of whether or not to follow the rules word for word when they stop making sense... Anyways, here's a simple scenario to help explain the circumstances of my question: Let's say we have a stealthy ranged rogue hiding from a single...

Ah I think that makes more sense. Essentially what you're suggesting gives you the tools to play easily online (using chits to represent combatants with the ability to move them around easily) but requires you to already have the map? If I can find something that would actually work as a map I...

My FLGS seems to actually be stocking less D&D lately. Seems like they haven't brought in anything new, or even replenished what's been sold out, in almost two months. The owner seems to prefer Pathfinder. I hear him do a little whisper to himself of "yay Pathfinder" (one that I think he thinks...

Krensky: There were about a dozen things in that post that I didn't understand a word of, but I'd like to thank you for putting the effort in. I really doubt I have the artistic/technical talent to manage to use that though. It certainly doesn't sound like I do.

It can be entertaining to watch too. Probably not so much entertaining for anyone in that group I mean, but the potential for us reading about it on the forums to get a laugh is pretty high I think.

Is there a way to make the cells square faster than manually adjusting the borders of each column and row?

211) Sword of honour: This sword provides a +1 bonus to hit and damage while fighting following any sort of official rules. The bonus increases by 1 for the duration of the battle if the wielder's opponent attempts to cheat those rules, and the bonus decreases by 1 if the wielder attempts to...

Does anyone have any suggestions for how to handle maps (specifically the battlemap) in play by post? I've looked around and saw that a common suggestion was maptool, but I tried maptool and found it horribly difficult to use, and the tutorials made no sense to me. It took me about two hours to...

I like this way of handling local. Personally I spread mine out a little bit more than individual cities though so that it's not so limited. I would say a player can have knowledge local of some human lands over in the east that would work in all the local farm villages and towns and stuff...