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Oh yeah! We've had hour long debriefing sessions after a 6-8 hour game. All of us are still in our jackets and boots, backpacks slung across our backs and they just keep talking about game events. It's pretty cool, as sometimes I can sit back and hear how excited they were about the game...

green skin, large, rotund body with tusks...looking exactly like this guy my kind of orc

I play to interact with the players, the DM and the setting in character. I DM to interact with the players and subtlely control the setting to both challenge the players, tell a story, and the magic of having the players interact with each other as their characters. DMing is much, much...

A paladin by the name of Porn Clitoris with Climax, his warhorse!

If I were the DM, I would leave the group. I have told all of my players that I have lots of fun DMing but when the game is no longer fun, I will no longer run the games. Period. If the rest of the players want to kick the offender out and then ask me to continue, that's more than fine. But I...

Sort of. Like many others, in my homebrew, I have an original pantheon of deities. However, the names and ceremonies of these cults will vary from place to place, so in essence players are free to take their "god" from any world mythology or WoTC setting. So Greyhawk, Faerun or even...

When are there too many house rules? Well, depends upon you and your players. When you find they become too cumbersome to use and remember, it's time to re-evaluate whether D&D is really the system you want to use. There are LOTS of d20 systems out there, and if you look there is probably one...

I ban gamespeak at the the table. I give them exp penalties...everything they say to the other characters, has to be in character. If they want to plan or meta-game, I ask them if they need player-time and then I leave the room. Even worse, it ruins the mood of the game for me if one of the...

Unfair question. The Book of Iron Might has only been out a short time. Many people, especially those who don't use pdfs (not me) may not be too familiar with them. The iron born is certainly intriguing, and after more perusuals I might allow my players to use them. As for the warforged...the...

For me, as the DM, around six hours. That's with at least one lunch break, and hopefully a minimum of goofing around time. But there are times I'll end it after four or five hours...if they may end at an awkward time in the sequence. Or, if I have nothing else planned in real life, we will...

In my campaign, most gods have various cults and sects with varying divergent beliefs. There are many occasions, when good aligned clerics worship evil gods, as it is akin to appeasment than devotion. In this pagan environment, you pray or make offerings to the god who most affect your...

I buy maybe 3-4 hardcover a year and those I make sure by previewing them. There are a few things that I do not use during a game (MC's Arcana Unearthed) but they give me lots of ideas, so I don't regret buying them. So, no, I don't think there's anything in 3.0 or 3.5 I regret buying...

98% of the time - no. I trust them and they trust me. I give them a good story, and they roll with the punches with the best of them, certainly the best group I have ever been with. Now, with that being said, there are times they tell me I'm "nuts", and we loudly "discuss" a rule or an...

I may have two or three beer, but I'm usually the only one. If I'm tired, I'll usually have a coffee. But most of the time and at most of the games water is my beverage of choice. The rest of the group, water or pop.

BoHM. It has the style and power level that I prefer over the ungodly (and in my low power campaign) unusuable abilities and feats that, I would never allow any of my players to ever use.

Almost word for word, the exact same change my group iniated last session. I was heading towards option b, but the players want A. Oh, and if we are throwing out options, they can change to true element (fire, air, earth, water) for +2 PP, but for any of the quasi elements (electricity, acid...

Another great but simple trick is paper clips. They can easily double the amount of notes you can quickly glance at during a game. (Plus they're cheap!)

Monsters are one of the things I love most about being a DM in a fantasy millieu...the choices even when you only have 2-3 books is amazing. I know I have more than six monster books, plus the 100+ monsters of my own design! When I create a new dungeon, I usually go through all of the books...

Another few options: All gaming sessions should be open. Invite the parents (and anyone else) to come and watch a session. Have them learn just what you do. Don't be private; be direct. Say, this is our hobby and this is what we like to do. Answer questions about it. Go to things like public...

ENWorld is a neat little corner of the web. I am abundantly happy with the features as they now stand, and will, for the foreseeable future anyway, keep coming back to this place for my d20 needs almost exclusively. But I don't want a change of focus. Rather than adding new stuff, add value to...