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Yeah, I name my adventures, if for nothing else than to help keep them straight in my notes and imagination. I generally think of it as the episode titles for a TV show rather than as published adventure titles, however. Perhaps a published adventure spanning three or more levels would be...

Nope. In my very first 4E campaign, it ran for a little over a year and we got to fifteenth level. By that time, encounters were agonizingly slow and the group had burned out on it. We figured out that we enjoyed the game in the level 1 to approximately 6 range, so whenever we played 4E...

From a purely mechanical point of view... 1. Monk. They have tons of abilities, but none of them really help you until you get some levels under your belt. You're extremely mobile, yes, but your damage output isn't all that good and you're unarmored--not a good place to be in melee. Things get...

Yeah, we sort of did that. :) Basically, we were playing a band of thieves in Greyhawk, the DM specifically asked us to make our characters a bit pragmatic or self-interested because he was (allegedly) tired of the default everyone-is-a-hero sort of thing, he said that he wanted shades of gray...

My experiences with music and gaming have been mixed. Here's my two coppers. First off, it's easy to do it "wrong." If you find that music detracts from your experience, stop using it. Easy enough. First... Many people up-thread have posted that it's important to keep the volume low. That's...

I think I understand this. Have you ever met someone that spoils an otherwise good or acceptable situation for an entire group? Usually, it's because whoever is in charge of that group doesn't feel like they can directly address the person that is being the problem, they feel that they have to...

On a recent thread, I shared my experiences with Pathfinder Society. That post actually solicited a response from the local Pathfinder Society venture-captain. I have to share the good with the bad, which I did not do well in my previous posts. To be entirely fair, two of the sessions I played...

The machi yakko is a great example of what a prestige class can be. For starters, it reflects a social role instead of a character-build role. I dig how it reflects that someone is recognized as an exemplar of their abilities, as someone that has earned a place of respect. I think that a...

This. In my experience, the people that are habitually late by several hours are late because they don't really plan to be there. They really plan to relax, drink, and screw around, and gaming just happens to be what their buddies want to do during the time they intend to screw around.

I guess that I wouldn't mind if someone was thirty minutes or so late, we're all still settling in by that point. It just doesn't happen in my experience. People are either on-time (within ten minutes of starting time either way), or they are insanely late--two/three hours or more late, once...

I end up playing with new people a few times per year. I don't consider myself "fickle," since I'm not changing my mind or anything like that, but I definitely have a low threshold for BS. Typically, I'll give a new group about three levels or so of play before I decide whether or not I'm going...

Very unstable. I work as a freelancer, so I'll usually get three or four jobs a year where I'm working intense hours, practically non-stop for about a month or so, then have tons of control over my schedule the rest of the time. Basically, every time I take a new job, it kills the current...

Unfortunately DocSER, your experiences are reasonably typical of organized play. I stopped playing in Pathfinder Society for very similar reasons. Sorry it's a bit long, but I just wanted to share how typical these sorts of things are... My very first session of Pathfinder Society, Cassomir's...

I agree that the prestige class concept needs a bit of work. This is another area where Pathfinder could really shine, if people wanted it to. In the third edition era, prestige classing was basically a foregone conclusion. I remember playing spellcasters and picking from among prestige classes...

Wonderful topic for a discussion. Here's my own table rules, directly from my table rules document circulated to my players. Sorry, it's a bit long.

One of the things about Pathfinder that I really like (that I've realized perhaps a bit slowly, over several months of regular play) is that very few Pathfinder players aspire for their characters to take levels in a prestige class. With abilities that scale through single-classing (barbarian...

Mostly, the "week off" is hand-waved. The characters are busy with resting, and maybe brushing up on their new techniques. I don't worry about the specifics, just like I don't worry about exactly what is in a character's rations or if they are carrying spare shoelaces or whatever. As for...

I'd actually ask your party and your GM what they'd like to see. If their suggestions sound fun, that's the gold--you can help fulfill a needed role and maybe get to try something that you haven't played before. Inquisitor is actually a decent choice to split the healing/tank role. I have an...

I think the biggest result of removing opportunity attacks will affect your defenders. Some of their class features (and much of what they do when actually at the table) is going to depend heavily on how you deal with opportunity attacks. I remember my very early 3E days when not every group...

Back in my 1E and 2E days, I used the training rules until the characters got to "name" level. After they got a stronghold/followers, they no longer needed training--the characters were the ones training others at that point. In 3E, 4E, and my current Pathfinder game, I dropped formal training...