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I haven't read through the entire four adventures yet so far, but I found the initial hook to be a bit weak - a huge dragon has just attacked a local keep. You 1st level adventurers, go help investigate it. I'm thinking at least 50% of the gamers I've dealt with since I've been gaming from the...

Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four did that with one of the skrulls - the creature shapeshifted into a cow, and Richards hypnotized it into staying a cow. (I think years later, the skrull woke up and tried to exact his revenge...)

well, according to the thread from several years back, allowing any sort of back door is DM Ex Machina.

well, several years back, I posted how most of my major encounters had a "back door" way for the PCs to be saved if things went bad through no fault of their own (i.e., some bad dice rolling on their part, unusually good rolling by me, one or two PCs get isolated during combat, etc). An NPC...

While I agree there is a possibility of railroading, the OP did not make us aware of the entirety of the situation. It's possible the players had tried to free some slaves and, in turn, lost the battle. As a consequence of losing the battle, the players were captured and are now being sold...

positive - it was a new group who had no contact with one another other than through me in the beginning. Each person developed a background before the entire group got together at the table. I had just run a different group before I moved through an epic campaign where they fought the...

Going back to the Wheel of Time, they also have a non-magical herb called Forkroot that inhibits channeling/casting. http://wot.wikia.com/wiki/Forkroot

When I ran a game recently, the players had no contact with each other ahead of time, but came up with the following for backgrounds for their PCs: 1) An escaped slave 2) A cleric of the deity of freedom & liberty (aka, the anti-slavery deity) 3) A paladin who was inspired by a group of slaves...

Silent Spell, Still Spell, etc are metamagic feats that have been around since 3E, so require the PCs to use a higher level spell slot to cast them without verbal and/or somatic components. If the PCs are gagged, they'd still need to have memorized an appropriate metamagic feat to cast the...

The characters are level 2 and 3, so Dimension Door is beyond their capability. Silent Spell is a +1 level metamagic feat, so would require a level 2 slot for level 1 Charm Person, so might not even be usable by the PCs if their caster(s) is (are) only level 2. Charm Person does require Verbal...

The problem with that is that the OP said the PCs were about to be captured and sold into slavery. We have no idea what happened to lead up to that situation, but it seems like it's not something where the PCs will have time to experiment with their own techniques. Good idea if they had more...

Not sure about structured vs player driven - every campaign I've run has been player driven, but they typically tend to have that BBEG at the end of the campaign that needs to be defeated. The characters and their backgrounds drive the story, which develops as they go along. It's just about...

Thanks again for all your work on this.

Since I'm re-reading the Wheel of Time series right now, you can do something like Jordan did to his Aes Sedai and other channelers - fit them with a device that prevents them from casting, like the a'dam, which is essentially like a leash for a channeler that does not allow them to do any...

Now reading The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson. Pretty good so far, about 25% of the way through.

I can only imagine what Twitter and similar would have been like if it were around when Michael Keaton was announced as playing Batman in the late 80s. Every comic book nerd I knew at the time was outraged, with very few taking a "wait & see" attitude. And, people who hadn't just read The Dark...

Good point - nobody liked that casting in the beginning, if I recall. I'd say the people who said "wait and see" or that it's an inspired choice were in the minority on that one.

Maybe his good directing skills have led to him becoming a better actor? Is the movie Superman, Part 2 with some Batman involvement? If Batman is a small, but important, part, then maybe Affleck won't ruin the movie?

amazing amount of work here... http://youtu.be/4VQ6wkvDdyY

I think it really depends on the group for success of a long-term campaign. A group that is less experienced and/or new to gaming with each other might be better served by playing a more straightforward good vs evil campaign. However, a group that has been together for a while and/or is full...