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From what you describe, your game is going great and as long as everyone is having fun (which they clearly are) you are certainly doing it right. Don't overthink your character choices, though; go with whatever feels right for your character. My advice would be, not to go for options that...

Did I already post in this thread? I remember was going to but I don't remember doing it. Oh, well. Ignore all these youngsters. Bah! What do they know about being old? It gets hard to read the books because the print is tiny, you can't remember where you left the dice (try looking in the...

Personally, I like writing narrative backgrounds for my characters beforehand because it helps me to "know" them and it helps them to "come alive" in my mind. But I don't expect the backgrounds I create in this way to matter very much once the game actually starts, the other PCs make themselves...

I've been asked to issue a statement to the effect that no fish were harmed in the making of this thread.

Depends on the card, depends on the suit. Clubs do 1d4 bludgeoning.

The doppelganger scenario? Pit the PC against his evil clone, who wants to make an end of him so that it can impersonate him in the regular game, undermine the regular party and ruin the game for everyone else. At least it will be balanced ...

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Just to echo rgoodbb's sentiment, I've thoroughly enjoyed being part of this collaborative story-telling effort, which is after all, what D&D is about. Thanks to everyone who has contributed and kept up the momentum, and thanks for tolerating my silliness and awful puns. We should do more of...

Shall we conspire to end with a flourish at post #500 ? I like round numbers and 500 is comfortable somehow. We need to plan it carefully, though ... #495 - This one #496 - A final farewell from THAC0, now living in a Magnificent Mansion instead of just a humble trapdoor, running a successful...

Aarakocra (because no-one else has fly speed) Bard-1 (because no-one else is blowing their own trumpet) / Druid-1 (because trees) / Paladin-1 (because someone has to keep the party on the path of righteousness) / Monk-1 (because you get cool unarmed beak strikes). That's level 4, right? You...

Should I write an epilogue, like Shakespeare, Sir? Yes, Trainger, that is an excellent idea. Well done, boy. You will go far. If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more...

"Did you turn out the lights?" asked TheTwo, his nose twitching suspiciously. "Yes, dear," replied 4T, "It's all over. This is a perfectly ordinary cellar with no rats at all." "So, why are we here? What's the point of it all? Life, The Universe, and Everything?" "I think you know, dear."

There was a busy rolling of dice, checking of character sheets and a general air of relief that, at last, after days of just role-playing the game was actually going somewhere and we might actually be getting a combat encounter, possibly with something a bit Stealthy. Things were looking up...

Yes, and ...? :D

So ... who is running Solong? It's not me - I'm doing Hermione. Is he ... horror of horrors ... a DMPC? Hey, DM, that's not fair! He's getting all the best dialogue lines. Right! If that's the way things are going to be ... "Hold, I prithee, Solong," interjected Hermione, "ere thou speak'st...

Okay, okay, I admit it. I made it up about the History check ... BTW, where is Spiton in all this? What's happened to him? I miss him. He's whacky. There's a certain Bardishness about Solong, it seems to me. Maybe he's being played by Spiton all along? That would account for a lot ...

High Dramatic, of course. :D Solon (the real one) was a contemporary of Thespis, who is credited with inventing tragedy when he allowed an actor in a mask to speak to the chorus and if that's not breaking fourth wall, I don't know what is. Thespis put on plays based on Homeric legends and it's...

"Solong, thank you for coming all this way. I'll be blunt. We have a problem," said Clone Fu after the intrepid travelers had returned and partaken of light refreshments and a Short Rest. "I hope it's not the Golden Tripod," replied Solong. "If it is, just throw it back in the sea where it came...