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Just to let you know, I'm playing the devil's advocate here to try and help you develop a stronger, more robust world. It's clearly an interesting idea. I'm just trying to pick apart pieces of it to help you define it more clearly and to give your players less things to stretch their...

Looking at your list of other races, I wonder if you realize how radically different the world would be? Going with the general mainstream ideas of those races, you're going to have a very peculiar world, and one where humans are fourth class citizens at best. Vampires: Probably one of your...

Yummy Random Charts I have to say: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I college, I spent hours and hours creating stacks of NPCs for a game I was running. Most never got used. They were just so fun to make, both from the oddities of the charts and the time spent creating a backstory to support...

Just use the same rules for the radiation attack as you would for the standard nonmagical poison and you aren't being mean. It's all about the fluff; right? If you do this, I would occasionally have a snake or something bite a PC just to remind them that they're immune and how cool that is...

My suggestion on this would be to have it not a 1,000 years in the past, but maybe a couple of hundred at most. After 1,000 years, a society is fully recovered and has expaneded to the point of being its own complete world. Plus, after 1,000 years, pretty much all of the ruin structures were...

I have had several NPCs that were part of the party and were successful in the campaign. Generally, these NPCs fill a role that none of the players want to fill and tends to have a "supporting role" type of personality. This helps to keep them out of the spotlight. The best ones have become...

I own a number of Worldworks sets. I also own two Fat Dragon Games sets and a couple of small things from other companies. In comparison, I will say that I find that the Worldworks games have more of a "Wow, that's gorgeous" factor to them. They are also more expensive, but as posted above...

I have played Scion and Exalted, which have stunting built into the combat system. From those games, I would take the following guideline: A stunt is only a stunt the first time. If you can't come up with something new and different, you don't get the stunt bonus. The first time you throw a...

There is also the fact that level one characters tend to be in the more "civilized areas" of the realm. They are dealing with low level monsters there because, quite frankly, if there were a bunch of high level monsters in this area, the bad guys would have eaten or enslaved the local...

There is also the fact that the actions of a low level character may just be beneath the notice of a high level badguy. Let's take a kind of fedual example. The baron way out there is having some problems, not a full invasion, just some hitches in his plans. The king doesn't really pay...

There's also a question of risk versus reward. You go out and you kill a bunch of githyanki and their dragon pets, you end up with magic items, treasure, and dragon skins. You go out and pick a bunch of commoner pockets, you end up with chump change where a day's work is less than one...

Just in case this hasn't been done yet, you did sit the player down and explain to him clearly that going around picking people's pockets all day is soon or later going to get him hurt, arrested, or dead; right? OP said he was a new player. Maybe he doesn't understand that there are any real...

Shambling Mound Local alchemist lives in an old tower. Privy and drains from lab dump out into a compost heap. Tower and compost heap are struck by lightning. Compost heap gets up and wreaks havoc. If the party knows the creation, then the lightning making it heal would be logical...

Comparing WoW to Tabletop I'll bite. I have been running tabletop for over 20 years and playing World of Warcraft (WoW) for almost two. Here's my comparison of how they stack up. (FYI-> There are three server types: RP is roleplaying, which I believe are all PVE. A PVP server is...

Don't you ever watch cop shows? "Squeely, we know you don't want to talk because you're afraid of reprisals. So, here's how it's going to go: You tell us everything and we make it look like someone else told us or we figure ou through magic. If you don't tell us everything you know, then...

I ran a campaign a number of years ago that was loosely inspired by "The Time Machine". Humans were not only not dominant, they were a slave race kept for food. There were no human gods. The psionic Morlock overlords controlled everything. (They had actually consumed their own gods a while...

It could just be a DNS server issue. Basically, the translation between words and numbers happens at a number of DNS servers, who share data. Sometimes, one or more DNS servers has bad information. (This can be from a hack, from using old backups, or from human error, et cetera.) A company...

Six Is Enough A while back, I created a custom 3.5 setting designed to be more generic for my home campaign. It included six character classes, and I felt they covered the possibilities nicely. However, these were not traditionally structured classes. Instead, you class determined your hit...

Also keep in mind that setting up the encounter area needs to be fast and furious, not slow and tedious. What I mean by this is that when you have a battle you're laying out on the battle mat, or piece of paper, or whatever you're using, don't waste a lot of time on it. The players aren't...

Create a supernatural sort of problem that the two PCs try to solve because they get dragged into, but then it turns out not to be a supernatural problem after all. For instance: Scenerio: A ghost is haunting to road and destroying wagons. Truth: It's a group of bandits with a glowing...