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I was 7 years old, and my Aunt had just gotten married. Her husband, Tim, was one of those guys that most kids like; he was always around play video games or board games with, and he always wanted to be your friend. I wasn't terribly keen on him though. He was different then most of the adults I...

It depends on the game and situation. My players can be, uh, difficult. For instance, we call one of them "Ug", as in the character from Critters. Why? Because "Nothing Likes Me". He will literally take weeks to settle on a single character, and even then complain. And that is with 3.5E...

My most heartfelt sympathies go out to Jolly and Barb.

We usually play at my office, and in the reception area of the office there is four and half feet tall display table. It is two levels tall, and about four by four. We all crowd around it. We really need a longer one. We tried playing on the meeting table we use for meeting with clients, but it...

I keep the Benny Hill song, the banana splits theme, and a "wah wah wah" sound on hand. The first two are for different types of chases, and the last one is for really dumb moves by PCs. As for real music, though, we have tried a couple of times, and cannot do it. It distracts my group, but...

I am going to say that Fort Smith, indeed the entire state of Arkansas as well as neighboring Oklahoma, are so cold a vampire might get frostbite. You'd think it would be better, considering the colleges that we have, but it's bad. When you do meet other gamers outside of a comic book shop, they...

The closest thing I can comp to is the fact that, until very recently, all large scale combat in our group used the old BattleSystem rules if the game we were playing didn't have its own system. It worked fairly well, because it didn't trample on the toes of the other system; we completely...

I was floored when all four of the new players wanted to know when the next session was. I was even more floored when they showed up on time at the next session. They all seem to be liking it. Their different backgrounds really add to the experience, plus they all seem to like to play characters...

I have one. My gaming group was composed, more or less, of my co-workers. All of us our guys in our 20s or 30s, and all IT professionals. I have a best friend who never really got it, despite my numerous attempts to include him. Well, one night about two months ago, one of my player's canceled...

I vote for "Under the Table". It seems, to me, to say gaming, which conjures D&D imagery, but leaves it broad enough to cover things like Gamma World or whatever else they might come up with. Great idea, though. I can't wait to see how it progresses. :D

It seems odd to me that so many people have never done this, as it makes up the bulk of my gaming adventures. I have had three characters that reached that level. My first was a 2e human fighter/mage that I took from 1st to 20th in the late 80s/ early 90s. His successor, a half-elf...

Just chiming in after reading the first page. I agree with the OP. As to talking about D&D, I am probably planning a mass murder. I am about to run a group consisting three veteran players and four newbies through the Tomb of Horrors. Methinks death is in the air. ;)

Not necessarily. Not everyone sees their assassin. If Col. Mustard smacks you in the back of the head with his candlestick, you probably won't know it. Chemical attacks or accidents will leave you with no answers as well. Also, I disagree about magic countering magic. To quote the Sword of...

Sorry to jump in, but I've been following the last couple of pages. On a certain level, I can see your point, Cirno; if a wizard has access to most or every spell in the book, and he has the time to prep every or at least most encounters, it could be very difficult to frustrate him. With those...

The easier to divorce line was a joke, referring to exactly what Janx said. about moving their stuff out. As for Arkansas recognizing common law marriage, it may just be a local county (sebastian) rule/law dealing with cohabitation rather then named common law marriage. I know several people...

FYI, I live on the Arkansas-Oklahoma border. In Arkansas, if you cohabitate with some one for six months, they are considered your common law spouse. They entitled to the same rights as any other spouse. However, it is much easier to divorce them ;). In Oklahoma, it is only six weeks but it...

The answer to the question of what is too much is just what everyone has said: too much is more then your situation can bare. If you can do your job, pay your bills, spend time with your family, and still afford to by the books and play that much, then you are alright. If you can't, it is time...

The 3.5 campaign my group just left (not finished per se) was entirely composed of dieties/epic level characters. It was my fault, really; we did a round-robin/guest DM setup to give me a break in the very beginning. I wanted to play a power-mad character, and in that vein I used one of the FFG...

Here in Fort Smith, AR, we used to have a store called Mystic Domain. It was actually a subsidiary of a store called Crazy Earl's...which can best be described as a novelty shop. The owner of both rented an entire mini-mall for space, and gave roughly 10% to MD. The employees did their best with...

Just an update. Check the encyclopaedia. No dice. Posted on the Acaeum, no luck. It must be in Librum Mortis, or one of the other small books that got destroyed. Most of them dealt with magic because I played wizards and helped playtest several of them (how I got some of them). As such, it could...