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Kobold sewer druid! There's your boss, right there... Plus it gives the PCs a reason to fight all these great sewer creatures that people have been suggesting. As for the motivation -- when I was little there was this news story about a group of runaway kids who had taken to living in the...

Darn you all! As if I wasn't already fiending for my RPG fix... My group will finish Shadows of the Last War sometime in January, and I'm not sure whether the Eberron game will continue, as people's schedules are different now. If we do keep going, the group will probably lose a couple of...

My favorite D&D artists all seem to hail from the 2E era (Merric mentioned these above - Caldwell, Elmore, Easley), and many of my favorite pieces come from Dragonlance. On the other hand, I started playing during the 2E era (first the "Classic D&D" boxed set, then the 2E PHB - and these both...

LOL. The PCs break into the mansion and, aside from a little trouble with the dogs, they encounter no difficulty in stealing the journal. The old woman and her daughter aren't home that night, apparently. (But why? ...) The PCs will not be able to read the journal because it's written in a...

Smashan Tara (see Aghora by Robert Svoboda). Sometimes truth is more fantastic than fiction.

You mean Eberron?

Not only did I just order Ecology and Culture, I couldn't help but grab Western Europe, Silk Road, Beast Builder, and even Pleasure Prison of the B'thuvian Demon Whore! I had read reviews of all these products previously and had been meaning to buy them, but just hadn't had the cash - but hey...

This may seem obvious, but don't end your campaign with an all-night marathon session. Your players will be way too sleepy to appreciate the epic earth-shatteringness. I did this once; it was stupid. DO post the details of your last game session, I'm sure many of us would enjoy reading...

I *think* it *may* have been in the FRCS.

Raven Crowking has a great article, called Faerie Encounters, on this site. It is required reading for anyone who wants to include fey in their campaign. I can't recommend it highly enough.

My partner and I recently babysat a couple of six-year-old girls. They were getting a little bit bored, so I handed them a box of D&D Miniatures and a big bag of dice. They had a blast just setting up the dice in different patterns and structures, and arranging the miniatures all over the...

QFT.

Most people here are refugees from SoCal, myself included. Do you really have a shortage of players down there? Maybe you ought to send up some more DMs...

Wow, thanks again guys. I really appreciate Whizbang, Treebore, and trancejeremy's discussion of some of the differences between Necromancer and Goodman modules. They both sound good, and I'm sure I'll eventually want to purchase a bunch from both lines, but I think I am going to start with a...

Well, thanks, everyone. I will probably buy a bunch of them and then mix them together, depending on what actions the PCs take. I want to keep the game challenging, as two of the players are the Gamist/Tactician type and all of them are veteran dungeon-delvers going back multiple editions...

Well, I am getting ready to start a new campaign. The group will consist of 5 or 6 players (not counting me) and meet once every two weeks. All of the players in this group are pretty experienced, and I am shooting for an "old school" feel. Unfortunately I don't have much prep time and am...

I generally agree with the OP. Where I live, there are a lot of players seeking games and very few DMs. I have no room in my group for people who aren't excited about the game. My current policy is that if you are going to miss a session, you have two options: 1. Someone else plays your...

I wouldn't say that 22-28 pt. characters are "average." Standard point buy is 25, which is roughly equivalent to the "elite array" (i.e. above average) or rolling (which generates PCs who are still above average - that is, compared to everyone who is NOT a PC). A 22 pt. character is below...

In fact, if I were running a totally pre-fab campaign like Shackled City, I would limit them to 25 pt. buy. If they don't like that, let them roll (as per the standard method in the PHB). Rolling stats would quickly give them a more realistic picture of the range of stats that 1st level PCs...

Unfortunately I missed the preorder deadline as well, so I special-ordered it from my FLGS for $98.97. Should be coming in tomorrow, I think. Hit your local game store!