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The New Year's Invasion Year's End 5, 4432 The streets of the City were crowded with visitors and gawkers as Naiah and her companions emerged from the Blue Dolphin. A functionary of the court squeezed through the crowd handing out newly-minted coins in celebration of the new year. Naiah...

A few months ago my friend ssspaladin decided to start up a D&D game using the Wilderlands setting, specifically City-State of the Invincible Overlord. What follows is my chronicle of that campaign. Our cast of characters: GM: ssspaladin Jerard the Weasel - male human fighter/rogue (Player...

I confess I'm a bit surprised you even look at her character sheet. Most of the GMs I play with rarely see mine. I also find it hard to imagine sticking with the same sheet forever - I hate it when mine gets smudged. I'm on an eternal quest for the "perfect" character sheet design, so I change...

Yeah, that's more accurate than what I said. I'm there to hang out with my friends, so I'll put up with a less-than-optimum gaming experience to continue to enjoy their company.

Precisely! I have an ongoing disagreement with a friend of mine who really likes giants to be enormous - 30 ft. tall or more. He likes his dragons hundreds of feet long. But there's a point at which for me not only does that strain my suspension of disbelief, as I said way back on page one...

We've been using a lot of re-based Mage Knight minis along with our D&D minis. It is hard to get some of them off the original bases, but one of my friends tried putting them in the freezer for a short while and that seems to have helped. Some HeroClix and HorrorClix also work well with D&D...

It seems like a lot of people will keep playing a game they're not really enjoying because they'd rather play than not play. If I had a choice betwee playing and not playing - well, the game would have to be sucking pretty badly for me to choose not playing.

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This was my opinion, too. The tv miniseries was dreadful and didn't deserve to be associated with the books, which are among my favorites.

Azlin's tale, part 7 You'd think an angry goblin might be funny, but it's not - at least not when it's Gwaenna. She storms back into the taproom and threatens the barkeep. She's not afraid of his troll bouncer. She's trying to get him to tell her where to find the black-skinned sorceress, but...

Danger at the Dinner Table Following this recognition, I found it difficult to keep my mind on the dinner conversation or on my food. Nor could I keep my gaze from straying to Osaze as he passed along the opposite side of the broad table. Baran reminded us on more than one occasion to be wary...

I can't imagine a point at which any of our characters would have to go to another plane to find a challenge.

Ah, that makes things clearer. Then it does sound like you need to talk to the powergamer about his rushing into combat and his bulldozing over everyone else's actions. You might need to talk to all the players about this. If they're just following his lead then everyone needs to be reminded...

Sounds like you've really only got one player hogging the limelight here. You mention that the casual gamer isn't getting to do much lately. I question whether the powergamer is really just hack 'n' slashing. Perhaps he is roleplaying his PC. Maybe he sees his character as an impulsive type who...

I don't own any Wilderlands material, but I'm currently playing in two Wilderlands campaigns, one tabletop and one PbP.

Yeah, Peter is scary powerful. But he only seems able to use one power at a time. And right now he doesn't even know what powers he has - what if his nuclear explosion power gets out of control again? :eek:

I just finished Jim Butcher's Death Masks (Dresden Files #5). I'll probaby go on to read Blood Rites (#6) next.

IIRC, Candice's power wasn't so much creating "images" as it was manipulating the minds of others. It was almost like mind-control, except she couldn't control what they thought, only what they perceived. I wouldn't call Peter's power empathy, either. Empathy has to do with emotions, being...

I decided to vote "Other". I don't like focusing all the emphasis on combat. I'm in the game to roleplay, too. But it's difficult to assess the XP worth of roleplaying. I also think it's somewhat unfair to do it that way because it may penalize players who aren't as good at roleplaying or...

It would take more than a couple of 18s for me to assume the other players were cheating. I prefer to think the best of people until they give me good reason to think otherwise. Some people are really lucky or unlucky with the dice when rolling up characters. I play in a game currently in...