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The official novelization of the game Torment is TERRIBLE. If you've never played the computer game, you will be completely lost and unable to follow the weakly written story that has little to do with the *awesome* story in the game. Instead, download the unofficial novelization of the game...

At the onset of my campaign, I made each character select a parton deity. The party is 2 elves and 4 dragonborn. They all selected deities along racial lines, so I have 2 followers of Corellon and 4 followers of Bahamut.

Ideally, how often my monsters cause OAs depends on the creature that the PCs are fighting. Mindless undead are heedless of OAs, causing them quite often. Monsters like orcs and trolls generally don't care if they cause OAs since they fight recklessly to begin with. Goblins and animals that...

I started playing back in '97 with the core books and the Planescape campaign setting. I played 2e sporatically until the release of 3e. At the time, I was more fascinated by the way a roleplaying game was played but I tolerated the rules as a means to an end. I started playing 3e as soon as...

I do a similar thing, only I use Post-it notes: I write the errata on the Post-its in ink then stick them directly over the text they replace.

I play it under the interpretation that a marked enemy's OA provokes an attack. Marking just seems like it would be too weak if it didn't

Personally, I never throw in secret doors unless the PCs have a reason for looking for them. The above mentioned "monsters getting behind PCs without them knowing" technique is one I often use. Secret treasure rooms are used only if the PCs have information that might lead them to search, such...

So, I'm looking over the various paragon paths and what kinds of multiclass characters would be a cool combination. Then I noticed that all of the Ranger paragon paths have a prerequisite based on fighting style. So, the Ranger paragon paths can only be taken by Rangers. The Multiclass feat...

I would like to point out something about the example of the dragon's attacks just for the sake of clarity to the op: Dragons get two different basic melee attacks, so they can use a bite attack or a claw attack as their standard action. Then they get an at-will power that lets them make 2...

I had a similar (in spirit) idea for my 4e campaign. PCs start out in a world at it's cultural and magical pinnacle. I'll give the PCs until level 3 to see what civilization is like at its height, then a zombie apocalypse occurs and no one is safe. After the PCs end the main threat of the...

At least one character should choose a race that has darkvision. Players who rely entirely on magic items to see in the dark will eventually find themselves without their equipment. Everyone should have an item with continual flame on it, preferably something like a ring or something so that...

I'm doing alot of world building. I've been writing flavor notes and history for a campaign world off and on for the past 2 years, but I was always reluctant to start making it into a true campaign setting using 3.5 because it just didn't seem to fit well. Now with all the things I've been...

I thought I'd like oWoD Vampire (only WoD I've played for more than a session) and I gave it the benefit of the doubt for two whole chronicles. What do I hate most about it? The fact that for a system that supposedly allows a player to explore the psyche of a monster, there sure is alot of...

Sigil, City of Doors. It is a city built (as far as canny bloods can figure) on the inside curvature of a torus, floating at the top of an infinitly tall spire in the center of a plane of infinite size. It is full of magic despite the spire itself being the ultimate no-magic zone. It has no...

Depending on the amount of paranoia you want to instill, Phasms would be excelent of you wanted to do a whole world once ruled by creatures like the thing in John Carpenter's The Thing.

QFT Presentation is *the* key. Whenever you are describing things, do not use your regular talking voice. Talk in a hushed, slightly raspy tone and dart your eyes from one player to the other when you are decribing something you want to be creepy or unnerving. Also while describing, try to...

I think he's asking "Why are you wanting to give entire access to electricity without the use of magic?" What purpose is the electricity going to serve? Is it some sort of plot device? What kind of flavor and tone are you trying to create?

I've found one trick really works well for keeping PCs generally on the track. I'm sure most (if not all) of us DMs have done this in the past. Don't tell them other things exist. If you don't want the players to go off on tangents, then don't seed them for it by telling them extraneous...

Heh, you reminded me of a half-orc bard I played a few years ago. Once upon a time there was a man who liked to drink. We’re not talking about having a pint every now and then with the guys. This man drank ALL the time. He would wake up in the morning and drink. He would eat his breakfast and...

I tried doing this with a group. With the wrong group. The paladin didn't even bother to cast detect evil before the massacre of a whole tribe's worth of kobold babies ensued. I made sure that it haunted the *players*, too. I don't think I've ever been so descriptive as a DM as I was when I...