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I think that's a perfectly acceptable caveat. If you want to use the Campaign Manager for a PbP thread then you have to use it right from the start, you can't "add" it later. Once this goes live we might want to add a sticky thread at the top of the PbP forum entitled "How do I add Campaign...

My favorite setting book for a while has been Secrets of Xen'drik, a 3.5e Eberron book. The book contained detailed locations, but what it was really good at was getting a DM's brain churning. It put forward tons of mysteries and left their answers up to the DM. When it did make an attempt...

Do TV shows or movies ever do anything repeatedly that just gets your goat? I can't stand it when they use empty disposable coffee cups. They move like they're empty, they sit in holders like they're empty, they even sound empty when they're put on a table. Just put water in the darn things...

Same here. My local toy store must have been trying to get rid of really old stuff in its warehouse, because at the same time I bought that I also picked up a (relatively) really huge box set that actually had a thick boardgame quality dungeon board, some PC minis (this was a special edition...

That sounds like one of the boxed sets I picked up when I started playing.

I never really liked metaplots in settings I played in. For books and video games they were great, but not for actual games. It's one of the reasons that I've read a lot of the Forgotten Realms stuff, but never found the urge to play in the setting. One of the big benefits to a published...

I was in high school. I had bought a couple of box sets (I think I actually had one D&D of indeterminate edition and one 2e AD&D) and convinced my sister to play with me. I DM'd and she played three pre-genned characters that came with the module. It consisted of a lot of, "Uh, I'm not sure...

Accidentally hitting the Ctrl key while you're using the mouse wheel can do that, since Ctrl and the mouse wheel is a shortcut in most browsers for zooming in and out.

I know where I can get games that have been remade or adjusted to run on Windows 7, but I was hoping I could bring back to life some of the games I already had instead of spending money on new (to me) ones. :) Edit: I re-read your post and noticed this time that you mentioned DOSBox. Can that...

I don't remember why we were in a bar fight, but a few years ago our game went there. The DM came up with a mechanic where each player would roll at the beginning of their turn to see what sort of random event happened on their turn. These events included beer getting spilled at your feet...

Anyone have any tips for trying to get older games (like, Windows 95/98 era) running on a Windows 7 x64 laptop? I've got an Acer Aspire 5532 that I use mostly when traveling (which is not very often) and I figured I'd be able to install some of my older games (with lower requirements) on it...

I think the bare minimum would not be that hard to do in theory (I've obviously not tried it myself). Bare minimum, you need to associate one large image and multiple smaller images with a thread. You need a grid (honestly, this is probably the hardest thing to do). You need to associate...

Suggestion for the dice roller (apologies if this has been suggested before and I missed it): Instead of the large graphical interface you have now (or in addition to it) allow users to type in a dice "equation". Many virtual tabletop programs work like this (OpenRPG and MapTool being two...

Ideas for a PBP battlemap: Map initialization/creation: * Each thread can have one map image (background) associated with it, specified by the thread creator at the time of thread creation or shortly thereafter (like similar to how polls work now) * The map has a grid of configurable size...

Those look great! But can you make reply and forward buttons for PMs, too? I feel like those buttons often get neglected.

Feature idea for the dice roller: Allow people to add the dice roll into their post between BBCode tags, like 1d20+5. When you're just previewing the post nothing would happen (it would just show the raw text) but once you've actually posted it would add a die roll to the post just as if you...

Then you should probably look into some way of keeping a character sheet that isn't just a plain text box. You might want to surf around and see what options other sites use for some of the more popular games. For example, iPlay4e imports .dnd4e character sheets from the Character Builder...

Might be good to provide a blank text area for aliases and/or a link to another site that would represent the character sheet. Some people might not want to use the blank text area but just want their character sheet link to go to some other service, like iPlay4e.

Please don't abbreviate them. New folks will have no idea what they mean.

There are some MapTool fans that love making frameworks. If you post a request in the MapTool forums you might find someone willing to make a framework for you.