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How do you know a campaign ends? Depends (of course). I've run a campaign loosely based on Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Sequence (a great set of children's books) where the party had to find the six signs of the Light and banish the Dark forever. Probably my groups favorite so far. Ending...

I base my decision about the gender to make a character based for a multiple of reasons such as (some stereotypes follow for the sake of brevity ;) ): What is the gender balance in the party? The well rounded party doesn't mean just a balance of classes and races. Sometimes when you come across...

But it's okay to play a dwarf, or an elf, or an assassin, or divine spell caster, or a lawful evil, or a true neutral. He must mean that it makes him feel weird to address a female player as he and vice versa. Roleplay = let's pretend. The players in my group have played characters of...

Our system was created to a) reduce the DM admin to neglible, b) allow lower level (new/replacement/returning) characters to catch up, c) reduce the emphasis on hack and slash. Basically it would take 5 game sessions for the highest level character to gain a level (my group wastes a fair bit of...

Die_Kluge You are doing a great job. I'm really enjoying this story hour. Keep it up.

Hope you get this before you play. DON'T KILL HIM if you want your item back. If he is a rogue he may have sold it, may have been employed to get the item and you need to interrogate him.

A party has been indiscriminately killing off innocents for sometime. They arrive in a new town and discover no-one trusts them, no-one will trade with them, no-one will provide food, shelter or information. Indeed, mis-information is probably the best tool available to the commoner. "Yes...

I play that it is a problem when the party is obviously in a place where waste disposal may become a problem. For example, a secret room the party was using as a base of operations in a giant dungeon crawl began to generate an odour when the party had been hiding there for more than a day with...

G'day Frauleine Take some lessons, Hong. Everyone knows Austria is down under where everything is reversed so we celebrate April Fools Day on the 1st of October in Spring (where Spring is meant to be). And not all of Austria uses daylight saving time as the extra hour of sunlight fades the...

G'day I love April Fool jokes but they need to occur on 1st April otherwise there are problems. On the internet in particular, some care needs to be taken because it is not 1st April everywhere at the same time. (eg MerricB's 'pre-emptive strike' from Australia re giant minatures [you...

Some bits and pieces... 1. The character may be a member of a particular order within the church with a particular brief : battle field medic, scout, diplomat, supply master, warrior, siege engineer, etc(eg. the Templars were a militant order of the Catholic Church originally created to...

Remember small steps. Don't try to do everything at once. If you have trouble with a "voice" be it an accent or just a change in tone, physically change the way you talk. I can't maintain an accent so when I speak for my half orc, I roll my lower lip back over my bottom teeth and speak as...

A good way to develop roleplay is to work closely with one of the other players. Spend a little bit of time discussing how both characters might interact with each other. Some of the great interactions I participated in were, to a limited extent, pre planned and develop out of the history that...

G'day, You could use real world examples like the Lake Eyre Basin. Lake Eyre is a giant salt lake that occassionally floods but normally looks like miles of ice (actually salt). From this site http://www.lakeeyrebasin.org.au/pages/page01.html ...

G'day guys, I'm about to start a new campaign where the party are members of the Lost, enslaved descendants of peoples magically transported from Faerun to this new world. The party needs to escape, learn about the world, gather resources, gain levels, discover the secret of the enslavers and...

The little old lady I had had a hell of a week at work, hadn't prepared and could barely think straight. :( So to slow the party down I had them meet a very old, very frail woman hobbling along the road. The 'good' characters of course stopped to talk with her, wondering what she was doing...

My group will bring a figure or small stuffed animal representing the familiar to the game. When the figure sits on the table, the party is always aware of them. Our wizards cat is very particular and will react negatively to anyone who says anything bad about itself or its master. "hiss!"...

Some players (i only have known a few thank god) would abuse the roll-say. They make a bad roll and they will ask something innocuous and then try again. I prefer state intention - roll - say (roleplay the result).

Try http://www.quotationspage.com/ Just type in some key words and...

In David Brin's The Uplift War (the Uplift series is great!), the Tymbrimi (sp?) love practical jokes and the longer, the more intricate and the greater potential for backfiring, the more they enjoy it, even if it does backfire.