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Aleena was my Aeris from FF7 moment as a child. That being said, we need an adventure where Bargle and Emirkol the Chaotic ride again - always loved the 1e DMG artwork of Emirkol just riding down cobble streets, blasting people.

I'm a huge fan of seasonal events. A friend I used to game with used to run seasonal one-shot horror D&D games for us. I wish I could remember what exactly, but they led to a seasonal boss fight. I always get the fall and Christmas one mixed up, and can never remember if the Bloody Barber was...

DMs can also, at the outset of the adventure, establish a timeline - in three days, forces from the western orc tribes will be crossing en masse. And stick to it - if the party chooses to fight and do whatever and burn time, that clock is ALWAYS still going. Given that we know how long a long...

The problem I've seen in my experience is that too many games allow not just Short Rest, but Full Rest, between combats. Parties are coming into their next combat 100% healed and 100% topped off on slots. That's why DMs then seem to make everything a Deadly+ combat. I know there are...

Random aside: In first edition Seventh Sea, unlike the second, the stat you use for your initiative is ... your Panache. That's right. I think that's about the most creative way I've seen to make Charisma not a dump stat. Your charisma, your swag, affects how early and often you go in a round.

From my experience, this ISN'T the Session Zero everyone talks about. To me, in my experience, what OP is writing about is before Session Zero - it's deeper than the elevator-pitch, but not something that can be conveyed in like five minutes. Session Zero, in my experience, has been once...

You are right about never worrying about Drizzt or Tanis getting one-shotted by a rando, but that's novels. That's not games (Yes, DL and its game-before-the-books etc etc). The death of Sturm could be seen ten miles away - but the death that always seems to trip people up and stay with them...

I don't know. With the size of my Carhart, a person would have a pretty good chance of missing my actual frame with a stabbing weapon... that's assuming it made it through the material. And given that I have kids with a woman from Bloody Harlan, stabbing is always a possibility.

That is a lot, but... to eat an elephant, you need to take a bite at a time. I'd start with something on the river, like a barge or boat that needs aid. They stop and offer assistance - or don't - only to later find out these were some of the river pirates, and the party had had a chance to...

Now, the game's cost, which seems to be a lot of people's complaints. But, I'd say most games seem to run between $5-20USD a session, which can make it about $5/hr. As far as 'obscure systems', now, you see mostly D&D, but you will also see a lot of various editions of WoD. I've seen Amber...

Not only have I done this a few times, but it's also a good way to get a shot at some more obscure games. Last time I went on, I saw someone running a 1e AD&D City State of the Invincible Overlord campaign... something I've not thought about since about 1987 when I joined my first real campaign.

I'm only on page 3 of the discussion, but it doesn't sound like a cohesive group. And that's not on you. You're doing the best you can to provide for them, as well as have enjoyment yourself. Having your wife not enjoy the game is also a different issue - as you said, you want to prioritize...

Agreed. And when he invents the revolver and gives it to the kid and says "When you meet the person who killed your father, stick this in their stomach and pull it til all you hear are clicks and tell them 'Lou Ricetti sends his regards.'" The engineer was THE rules lawyer. "Oh, the cost of...

Reading this reminded me of the fact that Prince Adam/He-man's mother is an astronaut from earth. I haven't personally done it in one of my games, but I'm reminded of the old novel series Guardians of the Flame. The premise was there was a gaming club, and their GM, one of their professors, is...

If you're the DM, the sky really is the limit. Traps galore. Golems that spray grease - both to be slipped on my your average Dex 10 footman, as well as to be prompting flambe'd by support flamethrower droids. The layout of his tower should be designed to optimize funneling enemies into...

This reminds me of one of my favorite gaming moments. I'm running 4e. I don't remember the module name, but it came after Keep on the Shadowfell. Party was level 7. The next problem was getting through a room where duergar had set up a blockade and were just guarding their border, hunkered...

I don't know - do you mean TSR releasing D&D or do you mean D&D three-years in from creation? My understanding is three years in from creation, D&D was being photcopied and passed around like Grateful Dead tapes. Pre-TSR

I don't know. He took that heel turn during the Slap Bet...

I think this proves my point. This HAS to be trolling. First, understanding capitalism means there are very few objectively great benevolent products. The only that comes to mind is when Volvo developed automobile seat belts, and CHOSE not to patent them for our benefits. What happens, even...