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I would say I do both, as I usually plan out an adventure but will throw it to the wind, as the players go in different directions. And usually my planned adventures are very light on info, so I have to adlib on the spot often anyways.

I can't answer this. Why, lets look at all the 3.X ed characters I've played: Half-Elf Bard, Dwarf Sorcerer, Gnome Fighter, Half-Orc Ranger One of each, can't pick. Lets go to 2e Gnome Psionicist, Githyanki Fighter/Mage, Human Cleric, Gnome Thief x2, Human Wizard, Half-Elf Ranger So if you go...

Well, what if the halfling is an assassin, after the missing tenant. The missing tenant releases the fire elemental, while the tenant makes good on his escape. The robber, well all he is is a lead-in to a larger conspiricy between to evil groups vying for power in the city, that will unfold as...

Well my spending has gone down, it seems. It took some serious thinking to get over 250 dollars (I quit after I hit that mark). Of course, if I included all the miniatures, that number would go skyrocketting.

Alright, I see your arguement, but your bending the rules (not breaking them). Your seeing the attack as part of the spell, kinda like a component of it. I still keep seeing it as a normal touch attack, using your normal attacks. In fact in the definition of the "touch spells in combat" the SRD...

I've always wanted to run a game like this (not the Stoned Age, gees, drugs are never ok, even over the counter ones :D), but my players could never wrap their heads around having bone and wood equipment, and no such thing as plate mail, also the reason why I could never get a game of Dark Sun...

I would say yes, as the Iron Bands, literally wrap the character up in them. Its not a cage where they can dodge the strike. The best you could do is roll around, and that could be easily handled by the person making a coup de grace.

Yes, you can always take a five foot step. This come into play when you are threatened by multiple opponents. Where the 5-foot step does not get you out of trouble. For example surrounding your wizard is an excellent tactic, as if he casts a spell, he either needs to cast defensively or make a...

As long as you have at least two attacks in a round, sure. It also has to be a full-round action because of this, so no moving in to touch the guy, you got to be standing there in the first place (and sucking up the damage). Might make some reach attack spellcasters, especially nasty. EDIT...

Ah, the NES, I still remember the spring of 1986, my mom decided we could get a NES, the fond memories. Favorite NES game, can't think of just one. So heres a few: The Legend of Zelda, beat it three times in a row to see if there was anything different between 2 & 3 like 1 & 2. Metroid, some of...

Here's one I had in a recent campaign, that had my player's scratching their heads on how to get around. First the players come to a corner of two hallways, they notice that the walls been smashed in here, and a relativly easy to find pressure plate on the floor, and easy to disable. But turn...

There have been several characters that I've DM'd that have been LG and non-paladin. Only two have been since 3e began, a LG human monk, and a LG dwarven cleric (and in that time I've only had one paladin).

First thought, a stone that when thrown or shot with a sling, causes paralyzation. Possibly could then cause the victim if killed by the stone to rise as a ghoul. Maybe created by an uber-intelligent (what 15 or so) ghoul or ghast necromancer, and given to his army of ghouls (properly trained...

In my Eberron campaign, one of my players is a dirty fighting dwarven rogue/fighter. And after a few games (he'd never been introduced to Eberron before) he decided his character probably came from the lower wards of Sharn and in his younger days ran with the local street gangs (I gave him some...

Well as a DM, one of the reasons I like to sit in when my player's are in planning is so I can chime in when the players have misinterpreted something I said. Now I never try try to change what their planning even if its stupid, I just try to make sure they understand whats happening (I'll do...

I'm into metal though all the years, '90s years the most (my teenage years). I listen to a lot of classic rock and just rock in general. Oh, yeah, love listening to the blues for those mellow moments. Of the other genres Hip Hop and Pop are barely on my radar, Rap I can't stand (though I got my...

I played tuba in high school band. Did try to take up the guitar, but I didn't have the patients to teach myself, same with the piano. And as for singing, I can't, I've got a horrible singing voice. Though I guess my Adam Sandler impersonation of Opera Man is pretty good, it always gets people...

Actually I might have let him do it, now that trouble that follows the book around, now follows him. So if they burn/destroy the book, its not gone, the book is still there with the psion, he has just become the book. Move the storyline to encompass new parameters, now the player is cursed. And...

The monk, his action for the most part were lawful, though he did act a bit wishywashy, but not really was his actions against the grain. The rogue, his actions were not good and not evil, but fit for the most part a character unhinged emotionally, the only evil action he took was the choice in...

When it strikes me, I rarely have any need for inspiration from any given source, as I'm usually boiling over with ideas. But there are times where I've got a block and just need to seperate myself from the task, in my youth (my youth, I'm 27, darn it I'm starting to think old) it was go outside...