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I've played in campaigns with lead screened meeting rooms,cells and treasure chambers. It can block supermanian x-ray vision, why not scry and teleport?

The "training sequence" is a stand-by of action/combat films. High end proffesional soldiers and rescue workers constantly train also. Even little Harry Potter is training between (and during) his adventures. In martial arts just because one is capable of learnign a specific weapon kata it...

Meet the parents. Make sure the parents are responsible for all transportation, and as such know when and qwhere the game happens at all times, they are to be notified of changes by you not the child. Make sure you are never alone with said girl. People have gone to jail for innocent actions...

i dunno my video game and movie lore tell me there are a LOT of ZOMBIES at the mall.

An EL 10 encounter?

a further note on Gold and Fiefs- A fief/strnghold/castle- gives a PC place to keep his or her loot. At 50gp to the pound a 150,000 gp personal fortune is tricky to run about with (and portable holes aren't the solution when the dispel magics start flying). A secure base is proactive.

What I fins most interestign in the Cyclops beingin the MM is there might be an indicator towards a trend here- more monsters from classcial fiction/lore that nonD&Ders can identify.

Becasue it's the hard part , doing a good dungeon is time-sink for a DM. One can transplant a dungeon into pretty much any setting. There should be a reason for all the gold beyond going adventuring some more.

The Playes in my game dubbed Monster Summoning I- "Furry Magic Missle"

AOOs dont' have to entirely diasappear they just have to be explained and implementd in a slightly cleaner fashion. sorta liek they were in the d20 CoC; I think most of it was in an optional insert but it made AOO really make sense to me compared to the descriptions in the D&D books.

No romanticized notion at all there were rules in original, 1st, 2nd and the boxed series that supported the notion that characters at "name level" would begin to act the part of lords. The description of the fighting men in "Men & Magic"spells all of this out right in the description of the...

great! So why purge the castle lording/empire building element from the game? It's a great gold pump and a reason to keep adventuring. Adventuring goes from grubby dungeon crawling for scaps to protecting ones realm and people (while hopefully getting larger scraps). Players having PCs build...

Well there are only so many feats available to a character at any level according to class, it's already factored in as an exp "cost" (actually a threshold). One can hadn a magical item to another person but you can't hand a feat to another person (is there an "empathic talent transfer" feat...

sorry piractecat, ignorance doesn't = stupidity. I don't consider it an insult to be pointed out there is something I don't know. I apologize if someone feels that to be an affront.

There is no "one true story". But the rules did support "go get rich and build yourself some worldly power" . In the old days the rules told you your 9th level fighters were Lords, it was part of the rules. Playing it otherwise was playing it in a spirit different from the rules. All the gold...

Running such a campaign is hardly beyond human. I've done it. I've known a number other DMs who did it as well.

You are ignorant of the origins and early days of the game. Going into dungeons, killing the bad guys, and taking their stuff was not the CORE STORY. Learn about the origins of the game and how early camapigns were played and then tell me what I have been doing wrong for about 30 years now by...

Becoming a lord at name level was/is indeed part of the "essence of the system". It's is actually what is different between 3.x and earlier versions of the game. Some players need a "concrete" reason to adventure, they need a goal and buidling a castle and becoming a lord is a fine and dandy...

certainy, heroes do it all the time (or risk doing it). yes, if there is big "E" Evil in the campaign. it might be moral but it almost certainly isn't legal. When does that happen in D&D? You heal him, stabilize him or he is already dead.

books on empire building...we dont' really need them to do an empire building campaign. All one needs is the cost of men at arms, a simple mass combat system ,how to calculate tax revenues, the cost of castles along with simple siege rules (hardness/hp of walls and siege engine dmage ratings)...