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I'm making my world up as I go, so a suggestion or two, on things I've done, and things I should have. Firstly: Maps are useful, so if you are able, make one. Don't put cities in or anything just yet. But map out a continent or two. Peninsulas, bays, oceans, seas, mountain ranges, valleys...

I had a character inspired by Spike Spiegel from "Cowboy Bebop," one by D'Artagnan from the Musketeer (Justin Chambers), and lately one partially inspired by Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean. I draw inspiration from other fields, but these three came from movies (and there was...

I work for a small (in staff, but not in customer) telecommunications company, providing voicemail and auto attendants to a myriad of businesses big and small, ranging from real estate agents and insurance lawyers to an independent computer game developer and a Las Vegas hooker.

I voted third level. If you're a cleric or wizard or druid, you've got second-level spells. If you're a fighter, you've got a good number of feats. If you're a rogue, you've got that extra d6 of damage. Everyone's got that next feat at third level, helping separate them from Joe First-Level...

I think we've tried before - there was one successful one before I moved here, and chatter about one last year but it never really came about. I don't think there's a ton of us, and I don't think we were incredibly organized last time. I'm up for one since I moved here something like three weeks...

We game in in the same room as my PC, or online over mIRC. Game's about 45 sessions deep so far, and we've got a TON of music. I've about 18 or 19 battle themes, different themes for each city, theme music for my NPCs, themes for the villains, some scenes that have happened have had their own...

I'm not entirely sold on the way they do warforged, and yeah, it does at times seem like it just revolves around them. But they are a very interesting and new race, in my opinion, and I like them. Plus, the world just has so much potential, and so many areas for different types of games. Still...

Hey, all. I'm running a d20 campaign, solidly not D&D, but I'm about to throw my players into a big undead city, with its formerly innocent citizens being slowly consumed into unlife by the former prophet who gave in to dark forces and damned them all... but I'm getting ahead of myself. I don't...

I've only outright scared them once. I've made them nervous for their charaters, but I've only ever SCARED them once. I use music extensively in my games, and so that added to his, but I really think the delivery is what did it. It was kind of a cutaway scene, for one character at a time (two...

I actually distilled one player's actions to this, and we haven't had any problems. My girlfriend's into gaming and loves the setting we game in, but isn't fantastic with the rules and if I expected her to remember what the bull-rush modifier is when attacking someone in the prone, well, we...

Just sticking my head in here about the White Wolf system -- while I do like that things get harder when you get hurt, those negatives KILL in White Wolf. It didn't really make combat more intense for me, it felt like if I got even nicked, things would escalate into a dead character in one...

I couldn't agree more. The more I think about class skills, the more it irks me. In 3.0 sense, what if my fighter grew up with a deaf family? Couldn't he have Read Lips? Why is a sorceror worse at seeing things? What if my rogue grew up with a wizard and learned everything he leanred about...

Found this a bit late, still chiming in. I've been gaming since 1997 and I've never had a character die. I've had games die, but never my character. Our most recent near-death that killed the other person in the party and ended with me turning my sheet in was fairly incredible. Fourth-level...

I voted by IRC -- I use the Psionics server to run my old tabletop game. I greatly prefer running in person, but having one of my two players in that game be in Virginia while the other two of us are in Kansas City eliminated that possibility. The benefit of IRC is that it's much easier to do...

I voted never -- I don't run standard D&D (homebrew here) so I may be a little different than the standard results. I do lesser encounters, but not random encounters. I don't think a battle on the way from one town to the next with 8 kobolds or 3 otyughs would be very rewarding, short of "I got...

My girlfriend just recently got into gaming, interested in the setting I created. She's not much for the system of it, but is easily as deep into the plot and character interaction as anyone else, and has really taken to it. As far as she's concerned her character sheet's written in code, but...

I think that's the problem I have. I love the mechanics of crafting a session, almost as much as I enjoy creating the story and all of that. The more time I spend creating the entire world and everything that goes into it, the harder just playing is. Plus my dislike for a lot of standard rules...

The question pretty much says it all. Five, six years ago I was pretty good at role-playing, and could really get into a character, his motivations, desires, all that. I wasn't world-class or anything, but I was really good. Then I started running games. I'm running two now, at the same time in...

My very first kill in D&D was a gibberling. Love those little guys.

Final Fantasy: Apotheosis, with my original gaming group from back in high school, finished Session 14 two weeks ago. Final Fantasy: Revelations, a game with my girlfriend and one of my best friends, is on Session 4 tomorrow. Both are slated to go about 30-35, I think -- any longer and I think...