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Sounds like you've been having problems in the past. Find a new gaming group. Life's too important to spend it not having fun.

I woodn't know. A wood Golem? Depends on the sort of tree we are talking, here. Evil? Good? Infested by the Zerg?

Darnit, we stayed a good five hundred feet from that mysterious Gazebo with it's treasure inside... Evil DM, see :D. Try a wandering group of monks distributing food. The food might turn them into zombies if they die or something, but only when they die of natural causes/get hacked up. So they...

Coming from the same perspective of the first poster, I must say there's been a lot of good help on running long term games. Mine are always exciting if short campaigns (6 sessions, generally) One thing: Have a backup prepared. I've got a bunch of mini-adventures that are exciting and fun for...

Faraer: You blatantly attack me for having an obvious 'fear' response (To what, I might add? To homosexual imagery or some such?). And yet you have no clue to my sexuality or motivation. Did you not read my post when I mentioned that I supported the ideas of Blue Rose? Do you think I should...

Not randomness. Not up is down and down is up. Not twisted versions of our reality. Instead, something that the human mind was never intended to comprehend. If magic draws this realm closer, it can certainly explain why most sorcerers are crazy. Nothing in the Far Realm is understandable...

I would also suggst Godlike. It's system is just as fast and loose. However, it's also lethal. If you do want a less lethal game, it's possible - but there's still the possibility of a bad guy rolling two tens with a rifle and your hero dying instantly. Not to say that there aren't problems...

Depends on how geeky I'm feeling each day. I tend to hit the 75% mark and I don't try very hard. However, most of the members of my group either hold useless degrees or work as skilled proffesionals/apprentices. It's a bit weird, though. There's one guy who dropped out of high school -...

If I had the cash. And weirdly, chicks dig the geeky. But it depends if you are a freak or not I expect.

I used to be a DM like that. My desire for everyone to be as excited by the plot and situation as I was was everything. I don't do that anymore. Interestingly, the players both find themselves harder pressed. If bad guys aren't scripted, they tend to make decisions that directly inhibit the...

Twofalls: You and your wife put your children down? Geez, I know I don't want gaming to be interrupted, but still! :D As for my games, we used to have huge sessions. Now... no. Steady work and such has killed us. We try for a five hour game on saturdays. As a DM, Five hours exhausts me...

From my reading, there tends to be a lot of ability for the GM to judge how powerful any given arcana is. Fire-shaping for instance. If a sorcerer tries to burn you up, you save against his D20+classlevel+ability. Which tends to be fairly high especially if he's a strait adept. Magic is...

To butt in.. I wonder how Blue Rose sales are going. Regardless of intellectual debate I would suggest that the tone of Blue Rose tends to alienate the common denominator of gaming. Despite my dislike of the setting, I really do think with a good campaign this particular game could raise...

Conan rules can annoy with their complexity in halving armor DR and such. So I just say Piercing reduces DR directly. Arming Sword with a piercing reduces DR by two and such. Rest is strait on damage. Criticals ignore all armor. Quicker IMHO and even leather armor is useful. However, I liked...

You could try for an absolutely simple-minded guy that always says the right thing, uncomprehendingly. What'll we do with the evil necromancer that'll sate the crowds? Dwarf:(Grinning) Stocks and tomatoes! Har har har! Throwing! He could be a mascot for the party.

I always trust my players. One in particular finds himself reading all the little rules I'd ignored to let him live past this combat and finds himself dead quite often. I'm contemplating calling him McCarthy. If players roll well, I pull out my first ever blue dice. I don't know why, but it's...

RASCISM Wandering troup of musicians brings a curse to any they sing to. Your characters enter the village and hear the musicians, who are unwittingly bringing a plague through an amazing song taught them by a (insert race that hates other race). INTOLERANCE A religious cult victimises a...

Just started a single PC game the other day. Seems to be a lot of roleplaying - which is good. It's certainly a good way to get a normally background player to move things along. There tends to be oddball characters and interesting plots. I've noticed that I've got to be careful in aiming at...

I one hundred percent love fey-style elves. Give me those weird, uncaring, unimaginitive spidery things who love humans because of our originality, who go about and re-enact human life, trying vainly to get something... alive out of it. Never be bored. Never be new. Eternal life as the same...

Actually, yes. I dislike it when one character is too powerful, as it takes the shine away from others. If it's me playing a character I think hard about retiring it or changing it. There are problems though - D20 as it is, certain classes will suck at various or all levels. Fighters are...