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Only if you make success (finding/reforging the sword) too easy. Here is what I would do: (I voted "No" but it actually is a "Yes, if...") I would start by using Engilbrand's setup. It shows the PCs just how powerful the shards of this artifact can be. Plus, it is just a really cool idea...

I am going to disregard the power level portion of your comment as, I guess, I don't really have any disagreement with your point of view. However, this part of the post I do disagree with. At least, I disagree that his character concept cannot include Leadership. Character concepts are not...

Well, if I were your DM here's how I would handle this situation: You kind of painted yourself into a corner with your character's background. He (She?) is not the kind of person that people necessarily flock to; unlike the Paladin who attracts people just by strolling down the street. Becoming...

Finance - Investments (Real Estate)

Maybe. I really wish we could hear more from other players in this group. As a player, I would find myself restless without full control of my thoughts and actions. But if that's what they like - you know, more power to them. That's the best part about RPGs; we can all take the same rules and...

Maybe. I don't know what his true motives are and I hesitate to speculate on them. It is possible that his players actually do enjoy something like what was written in the OP. It is also possible that he was just having a bad session. It happens to us all from time-to-time. We are getting a...

Because the PCs are on their way up from the wild coast and have run out of cash? At least, that is what I remember from playing the module.

Re: Gnomes. My girlfriend loves gnomes. When she first started playing D&D it was a gnome that she wanted to play. She does not play her as a practical jokester or comic relief but instead as a serious academic (albeit one who looks just like a garden gnome). I have been running a campaign for...

Me! I found WotC's marketing very annoying but it was not enough to keep me from trying the system. Much like how I find Subway's marketing campaigns annoying - I still eat at Subway. In the end it was the rules themselves that turned me off to 4e.

Well, in one of my gaming groups I am the only one who works a traditional 9-5 type job. Everyone else works in hospitals, law enforcement, shipping/warehousing, and retail. They often do not know what their schedules will be. And in many cases getting together once a month for four-to-five...

Yeah, this. Right now Paizo gives me everything I want from a fantasy style game. WotC doesn't.

Let's see... we started playing in 1989 with the Red Box / Blue Box that we got from a friend's older brother. We picked up some 1st Edition books at a yard sale in 1991 or 92. We played until 1997 when we all left for various colleges. In that time I never encountered a mega-dungeon; or even...

Over the last two months I have picked up a compilation of Conan stories and The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings to read - I just have not had the time to read them yet. :) What I objected to is that I cannot be an effective roleplayer without reading them. Yet I have been.

I am 30 and I have never read a fantasy novel. I have also never read a science fiction novel. I do read a lot. I read histories and biographies. I can wile away hours on Saturday afternoons reading about the Pilgrimage of Grace; or the Tokugawa shogunate; or biographies about Eisenhower. I...

Looking back after twenty-odd years of gaming, I agree. I don't find it all that annoying that different people found different core ideas within the same set of rules. If you asked me back when I started playing D&D what D&D was I would have told you it is medieval Europe with Arthurian...

If it is so difficult to define could you stop defining gaming ideals that differ from yours as "railroads"? Like I said earlier, what you are calling a railroad I call a plot hook.

Solution: Create an encounter that forces he party to split up. (Meaning the wizard goes one way and the party continues down another path.) Example: Perhaps during the next combat the PCs face have a couple of them receive Sending spells informing them that the town is under attack by some...

Where you see a rail I am seeing an opportunity to adventure.

Fair enough. I did mean all drugs but felt it important enough to specify prescription and OTC meds. I also take it to mean that high sugar content foods and drinks are acceptable? How do you handle people who get really jacked-up from pop and energy drinks. I was played a campaign with a good...

Ok. What other potential influences that can lead to negative behavior do you not allow when you game? (I know this kind of goes back to the original thread) Narcotics? Tobacco? Sugar? Prescription Meds? OTC Meds? Energy Drinks? Cheetos? :p The reason I ask is that I am trying to get an...