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I think I'm a better DM and I certainly prefer DMing...I hope so anyway. It's been about 6 years since I was in a campaign as a player, lots of one-shot games though.

A lot of the monsters mentioned on this thread, I not only like but have used: the Abeill or bee people, the flumph, executioner's hood, phantom fungus, grell and grick. One of my old players used to dispise the giff. But given the right description and in the right scenario, most of these can...

Issue # 1 for me: Magic item creep is the biggest problem I have with 3.X games. I have replaced all creation feats with equivalents that allow temporary versions of rings, wands, etc. They last a few weeks, have a finite amount of spells or charges. Players have the items they need, and create...

It's really great! A quick link to the most popular messageboards, rather than having to go into community then messagebaoards, then into the specific one you want. The gloassary is superb and really convenient. So, too, all of the character sheets at a quick link in a handy place. Some real...

I game with people I trust. I don't need to like them or be friends with them outside of the game...but I have to be able to trust them as people and in the game.

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Newfie, born and bred. Now living in the T.O. Favorite moment, well, two comes to mind. One is very personal, when I met a few germans traveling in Canada some years ago. They spoke about how much they loved coming here, and how friendly the people were, and what a difference between here and...

Confession: I'm a spell nerfer. Yes, I admit it. For example: Raise dead - cast only at a church. Teleport: only between teleport pads. The fifth level spell requires you to make the circle, an hour of preparation. Commune & Resurrect: Unless it's really important, don't ask your god for...

It's not that bad; style over power. Holding spells in candles is a pretty good image to begin a character with, especially in a low magic campaign.

If the player didn't at least think to himself, "hey, wait a second, is this darkness behaving like normal darkness", and ask for you to roll a knowledge (arcana) check, then I think he shouldn't whine. In a magical world, there should be no assumptions. Darkness can be of many types and...

OR...you can check out the revised version in BRC Hyperconscious. It's pretty good, of course, so is yours, Nifft.

Except for a paladin, all other classes don't have a strict alignment. They fall somewhere on the neutral-good-chaos-law paradigm. You weave in and out, and unless there happend to be a detect alignment spell, there is no way to determine where exactly where you are at that point in time. You...

NO DROW! No PhB creation feats No evil PCs No monster PCs No half-creatures (half-elves, half orcs, etc) Non-WoTC is heavily scutinized before I allow

Animals, especially any using scent. Glitterdust is also really useful.

Gain Psionic Focus Merely holding a reservoir of psionic power points in mind gives psionic characters a special energy. Psionic characters can put that energy to work without actually paying a power point cost—they can become psionically focused as a special use of the Concentration skill. If...

I have substantially changed the teleport spell, so that at 5th level, it will only work between one teleport "pad" to another pad. If these pads are permanent, then travel between them can be easily made by anyone of high enough levels. This is done between most major cities, and yes, if you...

Vile and graphic. Some things might get skimmed over, but wretched and horrible things happen to the PCs and NPCs. I have had one player (a long time ago) say that I used too descriptive imagery, but unless the current players object, I will continue my style. Yet, the game is light-hearted...

NO!!! Rules are wonderful things. Without them, you may decide two distinctly different ways of resolving an issue later on. It's unfair simply to leave it in DM hands. Rules are great ways to minimize potential arguing. And I have one player who knws the rules better than I do, and two more who...

1. Read as many D&D stuff as you can 2. Play as much as you can 3. Ask players want they want 4. Ask yourself want you want 5. Read stuff outside the genre 6. Make notes but prepare to drop them if need be 7. Know the game, know the rules 8. Get a feel for story, atmosphere and character 9. Make...

Star Wars for me. Sure, LoTR, looked amazing, but since I saw Star Wars when I was a kid, it formed apart of my identity as I was growing up. It's part of our culture as are many of the characters and phrases. While as strong as the Rings movie trilogy was, it was and will always be a stronger...