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  1. jollyninja

    which one to go to

    I'm trying to set up a trip to one of them with my group. if you can only hit one and either socal or indy will cost you about the same ammount to get to, which would you hit? why? when not in the convention center, what's there to do in indy that's a must do? i've checked out the gencon sites...
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    How to Get Wuxia Flavour?

    there was a game called dragonfist written by i believe chris pramas for Wotc in 1999 that was released as a pdf on the wotc site. as it turns out, it now belongs to green ronin publishing. it's rules were about half way between 2e and 3e with this being the precursor to the current feat system...
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    What innate power would you choose?

    i'd want wingless flight or telepathic communication with any sentient race.
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    What makes an adventure great?

    not to mention the ever popular "hunting the snipe" and "rescuing the maiden". i'll never forget the first time my first character bagged himself a snipe, sweet sweet xp they were back in 2e. not like their broken 3e or wattered down 3.5 counterparts.
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    What makes an adventure great?

    my main advice would be don't try to make every adventure a great adventure, you will fail, just try to keep them good enough that everyone will enjoy themselves. for each adventure though, i have a few pointers. have something for each player, not just each character. if one player likes...
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    What does the future hold for your campaign?

    well i've had multiple players tell me they are afraid to do anything in my game because it seems like even when they succeed they get screwed. yet they then proceed to tell me they have never had more fun playing Dnd so i'm not changing anything. it's a rokugan d20 campaign in which they have...
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    Epic characters brought back to beginning levels

    I've actually been a player in a couple of campaigns themed like this. first example, we had been getting stagnant as a gaming group, just playing retreads of a few old characters ittermittently and we finally just decided to bring the characters back, the dm agreed. there had been a reall...
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    Holiday Customer Service Hell.

    I've worked for sears for over 3 years in various departments. they give me more money, i decide that selling things to old people is still worth slamming my head into a brick wall of technological disconnect. it's becoming reasonably lucrative but i've got some stories i think are good/bad. a...
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    [Eberron] How are YOU going to handle the NPC level issue?

    now not to quibble and i know it's not dnd strictly (d20 compatable with 3e) but the courtier class in the rokugan campaign setting seems created specifically for such a character. all they have is their natural education, wit and charm to get them through. it's a really interesting class and...
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    Cliffhangers

    i'm running a L5R d20 game and at the end of the last session, the players were exiled from the empire. and i do stuff like that quite a bit of the time, half the party dead, horrific defeats to powerful creatures ect. they hate me but they keep showing up every week and often tell me it's their...
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    L5R gaijin cultures

    anyone know where i can get more information on the cultures outside rokugan? my players got themselves exiled and i kind of need some quick and dirty info and maps. novels, game products (don't care what system, i just want the background info) anything?
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    Stupid Player Syndrome

    in the legend of the five rings setting campaign i am currently running, i have been trying like mad to make the players realise that the task they have undertaken is to big for them to complete on their own. I'll freely admit that i do kill characters as much as any dm i have ever played with...
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    Successful Story Hours - a simple analysis (raised from the thread)

    as far as motivation for writing goes, one of my players moved and has no game to go to each week. he requested a story hour. i am a slave to the reasonable and interesting requests of my former gaming companions. as i had not really been keeping a campaign log as it were, i have been forced to...
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    Red mist and bone chips: vs the robot ninja pirate lesbians (sept 10)

    huh? where was i? oh right, they were goin' low to the bugbear's place.see now some of these folks knew what was goin' on but ones like goeffry were new to the lower levels. bein' of dragonmarked stock kinda helps keep ya out o' dark places till ya decide to go into 'em. so he bursts in lookin...
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    The future of RPGs

    paladium comes out with a core rule book with all it's updated rules from it's various suppliments called palladium rpg. then begins rereleasing it's setting books in a more coherant layout and realising that 40 more generic o.c.c.'s capable of personalisation (power armor pilot cyber doc's...
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    Red mist and bone chips: vs the robot ninja pirate lesbians (sept 10)

    it was raining in sharn, if you can believe it. hmph, always seems to rain in the tower city, like some long dead druid particularly fond of the stuff decided to take it upon himself to give the goblins a bath, heh..my home though and let someone complain 'bout it to vehemently and i'll give em...
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    Those evil slaad.

    i would say that there is a huge difference between a slaadi implanting everything it comes across and genocide. if they say decided to only implant in humans or just eat elves that would be one thing. but they (in their lower forms) simply breed with anything and eat whatever seems like it...
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    My players said no....

    i've played in one where the dm just let people pick their stats and honestly, i'm not doing it again if i can avoid it. the group had been together for awhile and allways done this, where i had come from more of a point buyish background. i gave myself what i considered "good" stats because my...
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    Chaotic. Not Silly.

    i always took the silliness as a cover for their real actions behind the scenes. use your crazy faction members (they have plenty) in public displays so nobody takes you to seriously. then your true actions to ferment the natural chaos of things will slip by completely unnoticed. like a sewing...
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    white wolfs new Vampire: The Requiem

    point conceeded
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