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Social stigma? About the worst I get is "Dungeons and Dragons? I've heard of it.. how does it actually sort of work? Is it around a computer?" I'm not a stereotypical geek, so that might help. A bartender/teacher with aspirations to geekiness. I often mention to friends that compared to them...

Don't tolerate it. The words "I don't care, neither do these guys. I'm the DM and I say shut up. If you do it again, you can leave. We are here to play a game, not argue trivia." Short, simple, effective. The guy who speaks down to others and has issues with women? Kick him immediately out of...

Play a D20 Modern or spycraft game. Even the Urban Arcana setting shouldn't be too bad. Try a murder mystery or even strange attacks because of secret government testing or some nonsense. From there, see how it goes. Thats my advice. I wouldn't suggest fantasy if there even could be problems...

To play - About 5th-9th. After that things tend to be stupidly easy or stupidly, obnoxiously hard. (I cast Glibness and roll a 3. I end up with fourty-odd something. Doesn't do it? Are you kidding?) Things such as magic weapons and items tend to be more important than characters due to silly DR...

Thanks for the replies! It seems that most people agree with me. I'm currently playing the sand-man previously mentioned in a Dark Sun campaign. (first time playing in yonks. Normally I GM.) While it's a mostly interesting game, I just can't seem to find a party dynamic. We are a party only...

Restriction breeds depth. Width breeds restriction. A game which its players are heavily restricted (I.e. all human, all asian, all Australian, all Tasmanian) brings about through neccesity deeper characters due to no-one wanting to play exactly the same thing. Characters are heavily explored...

I was thinking a bunch of gamers in a room 24/7. I thought "Cool!" And then I realised. Those shows deliberately weed out personality types that mix well. So we get - Power-Gamer. Likes Sci-fi. Hates fantasy and modern. Social Outcast. Likes anything/ complains about not being right...

You wander through the rusted, multi-levelled urban sprawl. Buildings once the height of fashion sit gutted next to massive soviet-style apartment blocks covered in graffiti. People pass by; mostly human, and mostly punk. As you wander, you find out that Yesnan III probably used to be a hot...

They don't know they are in Carceri? Then be real, real evil. You know that 'Hell is a casino you keep winning in.. but you can't leave, it's a snowstorm outside?' Start of a standard adventure, with a nice little town. They are told a necromancer is plagueing the town with undead. the local...

I would be careful about mixing fairly standard moggie housepets and feral (wild) cats. I saw a feral cat that had it's head reaching above my knee. It was filled with muscle, not to mention pure spite. I reckon that thing could of probably dragged fairly heavy things, probably up to...

HARP The static clears as you play. The same voice speaks over the channel once again. "Hey! Thats a catchy tune! You have some skill, jazzman. But you know, I hope you have some spare cash. The cost of getting you here will equal ten thousand, three hundred, fourty-one creds for fuel and...

I described a dragon roar as a buzzsaw on sheet metal once.

I would agree with you, s'mon, if I had different players. My players lap up plot like plot-lapping monkeys and when given free reign either split for far ends of the globe individually or sit around like stunned mullets. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but still. I understand how power at those...

I'd like some advice. The vast majority of campaigns that I'm involved in (Either run or played) go from 1-7th level and finish (And when I'm not GMing, tend to peter out about 4th level.) Our group is keen on actually finishing a campaign for once so I stepped up to it. So I'm just about to...

Rare or expensive alcohol. Finest of Dwarven meads, left to percolate for hundreds of years... Got to be worth something.

Alright, first post is up in the Playing the Game bit. To start with it's just Harp; patience for the rest of you. You'll be crew in no time. :D

The fat, blocky shape of a rusty Free Trader emerged slowly and painfully from the explosive womb of jump space trailing spare parts and rapidly freezing moisture. The once bright blue and white hull advertising the "Greatest Jazz Band in the Imperium" is long faded, and the silently drifting...

Because adventurers know in their hearts that money is transient; until they get the "big payoff." Thats when things start to get serious. With the big payoff, the characters have something they care about. They want to know all about their big payoff - they want to make it even better...

I first start with a basic, fundamental idea that drives a person to adventure. What would you like? Driven by God - Driven by a higher code - fame - profit - driven by vengeance - etc. Most people have a reason to adventure. Whats Kiah's reason to adventure?

I never really got that feat. I mean.. really? I don't think any character has ever taken it in any of my games.