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Hi Cherrio, welcome. I think you'll find plenty of advice here, and yes in my experience women players are in the minority but the ones that do play are often very good. Maybe there is some innate knack for it. On intial DMing, casting my mind back, I'd say not to try to be too ambitous...

From the OP it sounds like the perfect situation to stand and fight. Set up correctly, the party can battle the beasts before the gate and if it gets too hard retreat through the gate. As a player I would never leave a pack of dire wolves behind me that may or may not be under the guidance of...

I've used a "death spiral" approach for over a decade. In practice it actually benefits PCs, at the exspense of complicating the DMs life. Weaker hordes of creatures are likely to suffer the most, while in those situations where it is PCs on one big monster the ijured can fall back. Does it...

I'll actually take a shot at this since I think you might be looking for some rationale or input. Yeah we can all always play a different game, but D&D dominates the market share and support material. Like operating systems, I'd love to have something other than MS product (and I know there...

As mentioned, there are several systems one could use or modify. the biggest problem may be in integrating magic that is not straight forward damage type (e.g., fireball). Basic D&D in the Rules Compendium has a strategic combat setion IIRC. Another approach is to modify (use the tables) of a...

I still use electrum. It is more a de-based form of gold IMC rather than the inability to separate silver and gold. I always like the idea since reading about how debasement of curreny was a common way to raise extra money or basically counterfiet gold coins.

I think he's actually asking us to stroke his ego for him. :\

This sounds reasonable assuming good crop storage. Here's why, with some rounding on the numbers to make the calculation easy. 40 sq. miles = 25,600 acres. I'll round down to 25,000 acres to make it a nice 1 acre per person. Let's let the people eat well roughly 2,000 calorie diet. 1kg...

Thanks RC.

Word. Why would an intelligent creature not target a familiar? Their are several reasons why a familiar would not invariably be targeted, in addition to the wizard being a greater threat.... (1) How does the creature knows its a familiar? What is it cueing off of? (2) If it is near/on the...

What ForceUser said.

I use a luck "attribute" but as you spend the points they are gone. You normally start with 7 points. As you level you can get more luck points, usually at the expense of something else. In most situations it's basically used as a mulligan, 1-2 points for a reroll for example. One area where...

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I do something similiar to this, albiet with homebrew rules. I've found it provides an increased reward mechanic. Odd as it may sound, small but more frequent rewards provide better behavior reinforcement (i.e., the desire to keep playing to get the reward) than more infrequent larger rewards...

Before playing Dogs in the Vineyard I'd suggest one read "Under the Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakauer.

Having children of my own I can easily understand why the 9 year old is their, probably the baby-sitter fell through. I'd probably set her up in another room with a movie, books, whatever she is interested in, unless she really wanted to play or hang-out with her parents. If she wanted to...

What do I do in an RPG? In an RPG I try to view myself in the position of the character and enjoy overcoming the obstacles presented by the game with my character. For me a large measure of enjoyment comes from the "what if" scenario. For example, what if I could cast spells and they worked...

Hi all. First post here at ENWorld. Thought I might jump in as I've been using DR for armor for quite some time. By DR I assume damage resistance, i.e. the armor reduces damage received. Although mine is a homebrew approach, I thought it might add some insight even if much of it has been...