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There is no content to produce. The content is already there. But, there are still Model Ts that are driven. There are still folks that crank up a PS 2, or for that matter an Atari 2600. And... that antique computer in the closet can still do word processing even if it runs Windows 3.1 as...

Many Artifacts are situationally epic. For instance, if you are facing psionic foes, there is The Annulus. It automatically makes powers harder to manifest. Dimension anchors in a radius. Gives a daily nuke power. Once per year it can utterly destroy any psionic being in a 100 ft radius...

I do not know about you guys, but I prefer the specialty/background system as is. One of my main complaints with feats in 3e and 4e was it was a lot of +1 to this +2 to that minor accounting with a few things that were godly additional abilities. Plus, a long list of feats to an outside...

The Freed Elf Archer and the Wizard were pretty hurt and beat up. They would need healing. But, with no cleric and only one healing potion apiece, it would leave them in a dangerous situation. Plus, there was no telling if the city forces had additional ways to track them. They would have to...

As they entered into the Library, the Wizard donned his goggles for a minute. And, when I mean a minute, not even that. The Wizard was not as hardy as the Rogue and could not tolerate the pain. But, before removing them, he only saw one young adult Broze in a corner by a huge pile of history...

Brings up an interesting question, though. Now I am no expert on all the DnD realms and can name 50 NPCs from all worlds, but outside of say the Lady of Pain from Planescape (which we will not count), which is the toughest world? Greyhawk is probably the lowest overtly magical world o the...

Oh yes. Tangents sometimes are made. But a good story sometimes needs observations as I remember back fondly to a very happy time. While the Rogue had his untimely meeting with a now ex lover who just happened to be a dragon and was expecting a baby from, The Freed Slave Archer and the...

I promise I will not bore you all the time with senseless dialouge which may bore the readers like I wrote above. Only when campaign changing events occur. Now I do not think that is what I said or the Rogue said word for word. After all it has been years. I am sure if I called up the player...

Hey, some of that material, particularly 2e Planescape and planes manuals were some of the best written supplements ever to hit a gaming table. I would be down for some of those available.

Yes, the party split three ways, massive dragon infestation regardless. The Rogue woul go to the High Priestess for possible help and some... shall we say.. extracurricular activities. The Cleric would go scout out the lone temple to his God. The Wizard and the Freed Elf, who had become a...

Arriving through the teleportation gate from the Metropolis back to the Flame Tower field office in the Monastary City, the clerk that usually greeted them was snoozing. Upon hearing the PCs enter the room, he roused and nodded sleepily. "Nothing to do. Orders from the big guy was that no more...

Arriving back at the Flame Tower, the Patron and the PCs came up with a plan. First, they had to make sure The Flame Tower as an organization was secure and there were no young adult greens or worse masquerading around as Flame Gaurd. Now, many parts of the Flame Tower, except for the public...

So, eventually they grudgingly left the Monastary City to return back to the Flame Tower and confront the Patron. Who, they hoped, was not a dragon as well. they let the Rogue do the talking and wear the goggles as he would be the one who could talk the part's way out if the Patron turned out to...

Dragons everywhere! The rogue wispered in a very mad but concerned voice as he let all the party members peer in the goggles. Signs changed meaning. A few, walking amongst the folks living day to day in a big city were replaced by green junenile dragons! There were restaurants that had public...

I keep seeing this huge ass thread bumped. I guess it is time for some of my observations since it is always in my face. There will be those old timer DMs and players say that a true DM develops his own system that works. Actually, this is true. A good DM can make his own game. BUT - there is...

I aplogize, I should have been more clear. The 4e monster creation system is a direct response to the clustermess that was the 3e system and to a lesser extent, the 2e system. It is a very abstact way of dealing with things. Unfortunately. even with statistics for leveling up and down, it is...

Depends on what group. the original group i had that went from 2e to 4e over 30 levels was a very, shall we use a Star Wars term, advocates of 'aggresive diplomacy" that involved whipping out a battle mat and duking it out. Lord forbid, the math sessions taxed my head. particularly because the...

It started off simple enough. The group of players I ran with at the time was pissed off at the current DM because he was the kind that fell so in love with his NPCs, you could not kill them. He was one of these "weak PC" DMs with strict storylines you see occasionally grace these boards...

May take me several posts to do this justice over a few days. But, I thought some may enjoy this reading. I inadvertantly managed to be a part of something most geeks only dream about. An open session in a public area campaign that went on for years and through 2e, 3e, and a little 4e. From...

Granting spells/pacts/etc is a interesting thing too. Consider Zeus. Now Zeus is pretty much a bad boy with lightning bolts and everything else, but he was never really known as the healbot type. However, in all games, his clerics can heal. As far as traveling planes at will, depends on power...