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Secrets My name is Rolf Wolfcaller. I am a dwarf of the Mountain and a servant of Her spirit. I am also a keeper of secrets. Others have spoken of my first meeting with the Champions of the Lady when they rescued me from torture and death at the hands of several hill giants. I owe them a...

Though conjuring undead is an evil act, that does not necessarily mean the product of that spell is evil. (I agree though that the reason skeletons and zombies are neutral in the MM is that they don't have enough intelligence to be evil). The question I have for PC and for KidC is whether the...

I mostly tailor my magic to my NPCs and if that happens to match some of the characters, good. Every once in a while, if I see that a particular PC does not have as many useful items as the others, I will throw something in for them. If someone specializes in a very obscure weapon, they should...

Hoping for the Dark Willow plot Joss may save this till next season, but I think Willow dealing with magic as an addiction is just an interim story. I love what they have done with her character in the last year or so. She was such an afterthought for a long time. I am waiting for her to be...

Hey! We'll have none of that! Besides, telling you guys helps me be patient with all the cool plots I have brewing...

Interlude - Alexander Alexander Nonus 21 The low dry hills passed swiftly by as he ran. As dawn approached, Alexander hurried now northeast toward a distant man-made shape. He knew that his former comrades probably stood somewhere far to the north, near the Dwarvenrealm. For his part, he...

If you speak Terran, as the wizard in my game does, you can use a Xorn to help you detect invisible creatures. Their tremorsense detects most things. Your allies still have the miss chance, but at least they know where to attack!

Paranoia is one of my favorite Convention games. If you go to any of the big Cons, (Gen Con, Origins, etc) just sit down and play it. People don't usually mind teaching you at all. BTW, beware of Piratecat's adventures! He had the best ending I have ever heard about in Paranoia. Vampiric...

This sounds like a communication problem between DM and players. IMHO your group should have a talk about what level encounters should be. If the DM wants to run adventures with powerful monsters, then the party has to be prepared to retreat when they are overmatched. If the party insists on...

I like the plots thread... Perhaps your demon could steal the gate and try to open a gate large enough to make the Abyss/Hell and the Prime Material plane one. If he does that, perhaps it destroys the universe! That would explain why the players are in the time loop and give them something to...

Very interesting thread! Thanks

As this thread gets going again, I would be glad to help. My players just entered Dwarven lands in my campaign and I have been working on fleshing out the dwarves a little. In my world, the dwarves have hollowed out a large mountain for their home and only have limited control over outside...

Journey to the Dwarvenrealm (continued) Having sent the attacking dwarves away with the knowledge that not all humans and their allies hated them, the Champions hiked into the mountains along the old Sazoni imperial road toward the Dwarvenhome. Krag referred to it as just The Mountain. He...

Into the Dwarvenrealm Nonus 23, 417 Toiva was having a very bad week. Getting out of Sazon was a blessing but riding his new heavy warhorse, Frigate, had not been as easy as he had hoped. His body was sore in places he didn’t even know he had. Riding a horse resembled shipboard life not at...

I run the Legacy of Alexander campaign. I recently lost one player and may lose two more soon so I am looking for some new blood not too far from Silver Spring, MD. This is a mature gaming group of 30 somethings who are very into role-playing. We play about two Sundays a month from 2 to 8 pm...

If the ring is storing the essence of this incredibly powerful evil sorcerer, then why couldn't he or she be the power of the ring. Give the ring signs of intelligence. When the wearer calls on the power of the ring in some specific way, the sorcerer takes over their body with all his powers...

Many groups have done just fine with the "we meet in a tavern" opening. If you are unsure, there is nothing wrong with asking your players if they want a better reason to be together. They could all have some mysterious mark in common. They could all be chosen champions of the same god (the...

Another suggestion for a puzzle-type adventure: Flow chart it out. Put each of the clues in a bubble and mark how the PC's can get from one to the next. Then try to make sure there is more than one way to get to the end. Nothing is more frustrating that when the players don't see the...

A random thought: A heavy-handed but fun plot device is to start the game with the players captured. Just present it that they were taken with gas or magic or overwhelming force while asleep. The players will complain that their precautions made this impossible and insist on playing the...

I agree that you have to be careful not to over-plan the PC's reactions. If you really want the two groups to work together, you need to give them a good reason to. For example, one of the bandits could be a sibling to one of the bounty hunters. Perhaps the two groups have met before and...