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I have been tooling around with the idea for a few months now of a new campaign, taking my players well outside their comfort zone. I will have them generate Super Hero characters of relatively lite powers (no Thor's or Hulks - more like Hawk or Black Canary) one of them already came up with...

My easy fix The paladin served Heironius? Well, that temple gets word that one of their Knights was murdered - likely sent via one of the disgruntled townsfolk. The message also included word of a gate to hell being opened. Needless to say they should send in a small army. Bent on a)...

I just dug out a 1987 reprint "Realms of Horror" that has in order: Tomb of Horrors, White Plume Mountain, Expedition Beyond the Barrier Peaks and Lost Cavern's of Tsojcanth - this thread (and quite a few others recently dedicated to ToH), has made me decide to integrate these into my current...

Somehow I would see the parent company of WoTC vigorously approving 5th Edition - they've made it vividly clear, they are not concerned with a quality product - unless of course said product is profitable. Collectors and those who simply have to have the newest, shiniest of everything will...

My son made a character named Trey Icefalcon... In the last few days I've run into 3 real life Treys.

Spelljammer SPELLJAMMER - F T W I know, I know.... it was conceptually flawed, mechanically inane, and adolescent at best - but by far, and I mean FAR, it is my favorite TSR/DnD campaign setting. It allows me to connect all of my homebrew with the homebrew of the other DMs I play with - and...

Nonexistent chance of me purchasing, much less even reading 5E if/when it comes out. Too much time, effort, passion, and money invested in 3X to convert/start over. If these new editions were actual updates to the game, instead of trying to "reinvent" the game at every turn, that might allow...

It's hard sometimes, trust me, I know - to NOT get involved directly in the form of NPCs/Encounters/Divine Intervention, et all - and force things along. I would have let them hopefully figure out that no matter what, they backed up, ran away there was no getting away - however long it took...

"Indy! If you still want the Ark, it's being loaded on a truck, bound for Cairo" "Truck? What Truck" City adventures are the bomb, but be careful, it's logistically difficult to control the encounters without the players sensing a little DM fudging. Specifically, there's sooo many...

I saw a vaguely related thread and didn't want to hijack it - I am a dice nut. I have about fifty of the old East German high impact rounded edge dice, I still have my first old cheap set of low quality blue plastic dice that came in the Basic Rules Box, about every year or so I carefully refill...

Anyone else have a community dice basket? eeep

I simply hate

I hate DMs that are incapable of doing anything that's not written in the module/rule book. Spontaneity is one of the most important things in a game, restricting that crushes the soul. I hate DMs that rely heavy on the Nose Ring - IE: each of the players has a nose ring with a mithril chain...

Just reading all of the old Grimiore materials has me stoked all over again. One of the funks that my players are in, is the standards we've been running are simply getting old. As I said above, they've/we've seen it all. Whelp, they haven't seen this... The wars that ravaged the lands and...

Sounds to me your group could do with one less player. You'd have more fun.

We were inside a subterranean area known locally as The Warrens, about a weeks ride from Specularum. The deeper you go, the nastier it gets. And we were very deep, too deep for a group of 5th-7th level 2nd Edition adventurers - a fact we had come to terms with, as we found ourselves in one...

They call me DM or French (a short version of my last name) As far as NPCs go, the more superior players call them My Lord, Your Honor, Master, Shopkeep, etc - the les polished rarely even shift into character: Weaponsmith Durgen, "Hail m'lord, what can this poor smith do for you this bright...

Player: I had an old 2E Halfling Hairfoot Fighter, Bow Spec... our group returned to our village, to find it had been recently sacked by Orcs! In our despair, we spread out and searched, I thought I detected movement in one of the barns and let fly an arrow. Killing his own mother. DM: I...

Thanks for taking the time to read my ramblings - I have pretty much everything Arduin that's in print, and since our group is pretty much committed to 3.0/3.5, I have been tinkering with the monsters, making them portable. Oh, the first boss baddy - an insane Star Powered Mage named Goodgulf...

It's been a few days since I reflected on the thread about how my skills have deteriorated as a DM. And in those days I've taken the time to reflect as to the whys... I mean come on, I was at the very first DexCon in New Jersey; DMing a Round Robin event where this strangely dressed 50s-ish...