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"All is well, my friend?" Mahjub asks as he approaches the crouched man. He looks up suddenly, as if noticing Mahjub for the first time. He sniffs the air. "Yet you seem ill at ease," Mahjub responds, kneeling to partake in the same view as the crouched man. "My companions and I came upon the...

Abud tethers his camel and runs to assist those trying to douse the flames of the caravan. He moves to get a bucket brigade started. Dima urges her camel to sit, throwing the reins to Abu'l-Faraj as she lightly dismounts and runs the rest of the way to the camp. If there are any more who appear...

Let's start the show. Uraq 1: The Trouble with Pugwampis The year is 720 in the last week of Birth. These months it is relatively cool in Uraq. But even then the trip southwest from Rashadar was hard. They skirted far from Ra'ad the Blue's claimed territory, instead following the almost...

Let's meet our cast. Jadid Ahad: Monk Jadid is not particularly tall nor handsome. His face, along with ritual scarring, shows the effects of hundreds of hours of sparring, fighting, and broken bones. His grey eyes are penetrating, especially offset by his deep, golden-brown skin. He is wide...

A few notes. The campaign has been running PbP for nearly three years now and we're close to wrapping up. The message board is actually where a large group of us that have known each other online for nearly fifteen years come to commiserate. Many of us are writers, either pro, semi-pro or...

So a party goes into a dungeon filled with earth genies. The casters stay spider climbed on top of the cavern while the melee types go down below to distract. An earth genie casts rock to mud on the ceiling, causing the spider climbed casters to fall. The sorcerer casts featherfall. Does the...

I've been running a police campaign set in Ptolus for a while now and I and the PC's love it. I wholeheartedly agree with making a list of crime families and figuring out what happens when the PC's work their way up the chain. Another bit of advice is, if you're planning on mystery adventures...

Yeah, the drug addiction isn't the issue- so much that it makes the bugbear a bit harder to communicate with until he gets his fix. I think the player's intention is to cast the spell so that the bugbear understands what's being asked of him. That would certainly fit under the understanding...

I had a very interesting question from a player in a PbP game I run. The situation is this. The character has captured a bugbear enforcer in a local crime guild. His desire is to use the bugbear as an informant in the organization, but there are two drawbacks. 1- The bugbear has a drug...

Okay. So I DM a PbP game that has an ettercap absolutely brutalizing my party on a mountain trail. The ettercap has been sticking happily to the wall side well out of most melee and ranged weapons (with the exception of the rifle-toting ranger who is regularly webbed every other round.) A spider...

"Well, your mastery of understanding of the fair sex is apparently equal to your command of language," Ada grimaces, much more vocal now that her wounds are mostly healed. "I'd be more than happy to call it for the night. Come on Garn, let's see if we can't find a bag to put over you so one of...

And so begins the first instance of Baeril utterly confounding the DM with his actions.

Deevolly, Cipke, Elissa, Baeril - Frickard's House: South Market Deevolly stops in her tracks and tries to be silent. This time, Deevoly hears something. A series of creaks and muffled movement from the room above. Deevolly nods and points upstairs. Cipke looks up from the parchment he...

NO! YOU PEOPLE ARE MISSING THE POINT! The gnomes STARTED this thread! We're spending all this time ARGUING!! It's what they want! Oh god... has... has anyone heard from the tieflings lately? OMIGOD! IT'S HIDEOUS! I'VE NEVER SEEN A GNOMISH HOOKED HAMMER USED LIKE THAT!

By the way, I'm not a gnome supremacist. People don't like gnomes in their game, no biggie. Heck, our original campaign didn't have elves because he didn't like them. No one is wrong for disliking gnomes. I'm just saying that gnomes, heck ANY race, can be made cool and playable if you have a...

Yep. Tricksters aren't just people lighting matchsticks between someone's toes. Tricksters are also the bumbling idiot who just happen to stumble into the lamp that tips over the flame onto the important war plans. They get charmed by the villain, and then while doing his bidding, always manages...

So, long hiatus. We'll get this moving again shortly. Newcomers, feel free to peruse from the beginnings. The Tenth are the adventures of an assembles investigative task force set in Ptolus. I love this game, and so do the players. Hope you all dig it as well.

Kinkade Munro and Benson Gallaway Kinkade, blindsided by the whole conversation, turns and heads back downstairs to catch up with Benson and Olaf. "You're done with him?" Kinkade says to Benson just as Olaf is leaving. "Did he give you anything?" "Well, the notion that the City Watch killed...

*sigh* Did no one read the unified theory of gnomes? Did anyone see The Prestige? Remember the twist for the Christian Bale character? That's what a gnome is. They live the lie. Every second of their lives. But again, that's just our games. Gnomes are huge, major portions for us.

The game is set in Ptolus, so i can get very steampunky.. One of the player's dreams is to invent an internal combustion engine and create a motorcycle- although that is a very long way away. I've seen other good crafting posts around here, so if some of the sourcebooks don't give rules for it...