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I have been running some paizo modules on roll20 for my group. I've been screenshotting the map from the adventures I bought, cropping out the text, and uploading the map that way. It's the same way I've been uploading the art to share with my players. 2minutetabletop has a collection of free...

Neither serious "proper" roleplay nor goofy banter / Monty Python quipping is bad. For me, the goofy banter is part of what I enjoy in playing RPGs. I have also seen tables that want everyone to stay in character as much as possible, even so far as banning references to Monty Python. The hard...

Lord Havelock Vetinari, the Patrician (read: dictator for life) of Ankh-Morpork in Discworld always struck me as Lawful Evil but with a capital L and a small e. Playing the ruler of a city may be a bit difficult but you could certainly draw from it for inspiration. I imagine a Rogue (Mastermind)...

I tend to shoot for a PG/PG-13 rating in my games. Especially since I'm DMing for two children right now. Most of the bleakness in the world comes from the fact that the general population is ground underfoot by the ruling class. Heavy taxes, leaders/rulers more interested in their own gain...

You have to cancel? Ok. :(

Yes. Usually because the first time I played them they either died early on, were used for a one shot session, or the campaign fizzled out before I got to explore the character concept.

The whole tomb is only 5 rooms? Are there guardians or traps? I used this map in a pathfinder game recently and I'm happy with how it turned out.

I'm planning on throwing a silly magic staff in as loot in my next dungeon. It's a magical staff used by the goblin head chef in the dungeon's kitchen. It will look like an oversized wooden spoon. I'm thinking that it will allow the wielder to cast Create Water, Purify Food and Drink, Mage Hand...

Pre-written adventures are great to use and, as I've found, a great place to start for customizing things for your players. It's so easy for a DM to say "The monster in room 4B doesn't thematically so I'm going to change it". or to change an encounter to play into a character's background...

I'm thinking around CR 6/7. I also have plans to run the party through Carnival of Tears, so I have access to the Dark Ice template.

I'm looking for a fey to use as an assassin. She came to town when the humans started logging her forest home and began to eliminate the settlers. I'm looking for suggestions on what type of fey to use. Maybe just take Green Hag and reskin it as a fey? Thoughts and suggestions?

I think a lot of that is going to depend on the campaign your GM is running. If your animal companion is right in the thick of it with you, then you may want to spend more on your companion than if your GM is ignoring it. Maybe set aside 10 to 20% of your loot received for your companion...

I've played in and DM'd for groups where classes were duplicated. It's easy enough to compensate for. I was playing a game with two wizards but each wizard focused on different schools of magic. I played in a game where, without talking to each other, a friend and I each brought in a half-elf...

Played a barbarian in a game that lasted a few years. We were constantly out matched and out classed by our opponents and the party used to joke that the only victory we had was escorting some survivors from a village to a far away city to escape a war. More and more of the campaign was set up...

I played in a homebrew setting once where the use of most magic in warfare was outlawed because of how destructive it would be. This ban was enforced by all the other wizards and the academies that taught magic.

I'm imagining a barbarian hurling his crossbow at the rope since he's out of bolts and the DM's shocked look as he somehow rolls well enough to pull that off.

I know the 3.5 DMG said to assume that the king or local lord had some champion or mage on retainer that could deal with uppity/misbehaving PCs. And if the PCs get too powerful for mere mortals, there's always the divine. Perhaps some lowly farmer calls out for the goddess of justice and law...

You could create a deck of cards in roll 20 with the images for the passageway. Deal the cards to the players and have them drop them down onto the virtual table top. Unfortunately, Roll20 is a bit of a pain when it comes to uploading multiples of the same card. Want ten straight paths? Upload...

Here is what I would do. Set up your room on a battle map. Put the PCs at the entrance to the maze. Scatter all over the map a bunch of random tokens face down. These tokens represent monsters, traps, and treasure. The players don't know what they are until they reach that square on the map and...

I'm not sure if this quite fits but here's what I'd like to see: The degradation of permanent magical effects. I guess that's how you get cursed items but I'm thinking more like what happens to the villain that was turned into stone a hundred years ago. Does the spell slowly lose potency? Could...