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That would be great! Just make one pregen character and give each player a copy! Let them work it out. Freakin cool.

Last year when we first started playing Eberron we met up with some cultists deep below Sharn. They were sacrificing humans to summon some unspeakable horror by throwing them into a pit. We started fighting and managed to defeat most of the cultists by the time they had thrown three of the four...

If I remember the story correctly, this is how the colony in Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End starts. Its a pretty cool idea. There's no theoretical reason it wouldn't work. The real issue would be the psychological effects of being raised by machines, even AI-class ones. Another cool topic...

Passage at Arms by Glen Cook. I love Glen Cook. I borrowed this after my friend recently dug into a pile of boxes left unopened after he moved something like 15 years ago. Its a treasure trove of good sci-fi and fantasy paperbacks. He could probably open his own used book store with this stuff...

I'd say that everything moves at the "speed of plot", but that's just my DM style. Speaking of travel by rail--here's something fun to mess with/educate your players: The current time zone system in the US was not made standard until 1918. American and Canadian rail roads implemented their own...

This comes up in our game all the time. Our druid is a wildshaping madman. We had to refigure his stats for all his favorite animal shapes and his equipment. Figuring out which magic items work and which don't for a 13th level druid is a pain. I wish there were an easier way to do...

Just finished the book. Great ending. I won't spoil it here for anyone. Now on to some old Glen Cook, Passage at Arms. I'm in a space opera kick lately.

Deathstalker 2 was a favorite of my high school gaming buddies. One of my friends worked in a video store and watched it. He rushed it home and made us watch it immediately. I think we viewed something like 5 times that weekend. There should be a Behind the Back Parry feat. Something useless...

It would be cool if someone used Blood Bowl to come up with stats for the Colts and Bears and play out the game. With appropriate Blood Bowl substitutions of course. James would have to worry about more than his knee in that kind of game.

On Saturday at 7pm, the Colts will be hosting the Chicago Bears so downtown Indy will be really crowded--just like last year. Colts fans will be around as early as 4pm for a pre-game tailgate at the RCA Dome. Genconners might think about packing a sack dinner that day to avoid restaurant congestion.

Angelheart creeps the bejeesus outta me. My wife and I threaten each other with renting it everyonce in a while. Every couple of years we actually do. Whoa. Another good one like that is Jacob's Ladder.

PC deaths are much more fun in one-shot games. Some players love going out in a blaze of glory. Not many campaign PCs will do the "No, leave me! I'm done for! You go on while I hold them off!" bit but a one-shot's a different story. Heck, you can wipe out half the party just to make them fear a...

IMO, this is the only way to go. My current campaign world was designed this way. I don't have time to work up a huge detailed homebrew world. I say use the same tactic that video game designers have used for ages: Only detail what the PCs can see and interact with--everything else is only...

Negative levels--I like that mechanic. Its easy to use. I think you are about right on the distance. I just read that the Tines don't like to get closer than 8 meters to other packs. Areas of silence or echo would really mess these guys up. I'd probably make them more susceptible to sonic...

There are some great rules in the DMGII about making PCs fight in cramped quarters. IIRC, it also has rules for some very low level traps (like bags of chalky dust that make you lose a round couging and choking if you fail your save). Make the PCs crawl through a tight tunnel only to have...

So how would you do Tines' stats in d20? Maybe something modelled on the swarm or mob mechanics? What happens to a character when a pack loses or gains a member? Do you evenly distribute a packs hit points among the members and allow foes to target them separately? Its a tough problem.

I'm about 3/4 of the way through this book. Its great sci-fi with some really interesting ideas. The best one is an alien race known as the Tines. They are packs of dog-like animals. That's right--they aren't individuals, but packs! Think of them as mini hiveminds. They "think" using complicated...

Not only beer, but homebrewed beer! Out of four people in my group, two are homebrewers. My game table is right next to the area where I store my brewing equipment and conditioning beers. There's nothing like drinking a homebrew while playing your homebrew!

I did something like this, only it was a giant robot sent to retrieve a hero's sentient alien power armor. The hero's armor (which manifests random powers, kind of like that old show Great American Hero) sucked up a bunch of metal from a junkyard to create a giant robot suit to defend itself. I...

Ok, somebody tell me about this Synnibar of which you speak. I've never heard of it! It's fun seeing everyone's opinion on the worst game. Is it bad because of the setting? the mechanics? the people you played with? Even a terrible game can be fun with the right people, or the amount of time...