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I don't know your setup, so I can't guarantee this will work for you. I was able to do this. First, span your desktop/display area across both screens. Make sure the one at your desk is your primary so it has the task bar. What this means is that you can drag a program over to the left/right...

Thank you for the specific suggestions. There are some good ideas there. In checking the web site for my FLGS, I found out they now have an "open RPG night", so they may already have pickup games going on. I'm going to drop by this week and see what details I can find out. (They also don't...

Does anyone on EN World have experience with running or participating in "pickup" type D&D games? By that, I mean games run at a local gaming store (or other location) where the DM pledges to come in and run a game on X day at Y time and people can sign up or just show up if there's still slots...

Oddly, I ran a science fiction game last year where the main character was from Earth and named John Smith. Granted, it was loosely based on Battletech, so Earth normal names were more usual, but at least it's an example of a John Smith; right? :) EDIT: Of course, some of my players have...

I can answer that without ever having met this gaming group. They players are passing the buck to the DM. They don't want to deal with the confrontation and so the DM gets the happy "responsibility". It's such a common human reaction that I've seen many long threads on EN World alone about...

If it's five months, you've waited entirely too long. One bad session can be a bad day. At two bad sessions, you have a talk with the player. At a month of bad sessions, they should be out of the game. (Two months at most, if you're really into being a martyr.) People are there to have fun...

Read your history. The legal system has ALWAYS been a tool for the rich or powerful. Legal systems are created by the rich and powerful and so reflect the necessary tools for them to use. This doesn't mean that the "common" man can't use the legal system to their advantage, just that they may...

On your first point, what would you suggest? That in order to have a law suit, both parties must limit their choice in lawyers based on whoever has the least amount of money? Would you make people too poor to afford a good attorney immune from lawsuit? That makes no sense, and would break...

Actually, that's not really out of line with a professional dating service in the physical world. You can pay even higher fees for the more discerning companies. (Ones that do background checks, ensure you have a certain level of education and income, and generally connect people who expect a...

I agree with the idea of making it a ring that scales with the party. That way, it can become something that sticks around for their entire career. I would give it a small constant power for the person wearing it, such as +1 protection or +2 to a skill. Then have it grant a small bonus to the...

This point is exactly why I know that with the 3.5 PHB, WoTC made changes to the book for later printings. A player and I were debating a spell use in my game. I totally disagreed with how he believed it worked. So, I read the spell text to him from my PHB. His book was very different...

If the zombie plague is infectious, I'd stock up on Cure Disease scrolls or something similar. Being a cleric would be good. Being a necromancer might be better...

It is possible to purchase weighted dice. My FLGS used to have a set they carried for creating characters. It was 3d6 weighted to roll 6's most of the time. It's about the manufacturing process. Of course, most weighted dice are fairly obvious if you pay attention. When you're rolling...

I have played Wheel of Time in a campaign with two of that setting's spellcasters. The magic of the WoT settings is NOT balanced to go along with a standard D&D game. Frankly, I would never allow it into a regular game. The problem without incorporating outside material is that the world...

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For solo play, I think that video games are basically filling the niche. Fare more people are going to buy Neverwinter nights and play it than would buy a lot of rules to play pen and paper by themselves. (Though as I too have spent hours in my youth playing solo with pen and paper, I...

I voted "Yes", but I would only be purchasing PDFs of older edition products, 3.5 and before, and only assuming they were priced significantly lower than the hardcopy versions. (Which some of the older PDFs were.) I any my friends already have hundred of dollars worth of D&D books and I'm...

I am looking for a game system to run a zombie apocalypse type game in. This game is going to be fast paced, short lived, and will lean toward a style similar to a number of zombie movies. We need something fairly easy to learn as this won't be a long running game, though it's a game type we...

There will always be people who blame that which they don't understand or which makes them uncomfortable. People don't just blame D&D, they blame the music someone listens to or the video games they play or the company they keep, among many other things. Yes, there are still people who cannot...

My suggestion would be to simply tailor the opening gambit to your group. Instead of the pat on the head, make it the, "Thank the gods that you arrived just when we needed you," or, "I've come from X because there is great danger there that only you can solve for us." Honestly, I can't think...