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I like to create the illusion of choice. Most of my players over the years have felt that any campaign that I ran was a sandbox but I simply created the illusion of choice, inspired by Henry Ford's adage, "You can have an colour you like as long as its black." That said, Kingmaker sounds like a...

Mate, the thread is about Dungeon not Dragon. (The copyright issue you alluded to was the reprinting of the Knights of the Dinner Table strips. Part, if not all, of the settlement was what allowed Kenzer & Co to produce licensed 3.xE products which is why all the Kingdoms of Kalamar stuff has...

It's not about D&D, it's about punishment. That said, I reckon a D&D programme would make a worthwhile rehabilitation exercise in prisons. Edit: Although the next two posts just reminded me of how dumb that idea could be! Now why would they want to do that? The job of most journalists is to...

I'm an Aussie and plan to watch it with my business partner at his house here in Oz. He's from Philadelphia. My only preparation will be scouring the 'net for recommendations on which team will win so I can hopefully win the bet that we will, inevitably, make. And, like Goodsport, I'll...

I'll be watching this thread with interest. My business partner is an American (from Philadelphia) and we're going to watch the Superbowl together at his house (I'm one of three Australians who likes NFL but I don't get to see it very often anymore... heck, I don't get to see rugby union...

This is possibly my first Australia Day in Australia for about ten years... and I will just catch up on some work. How un-Australian!!! ;)

Ditto. I love the "impale the charging beastie on the tree"-trick. Thanks for posting, Piratecat. I'm going to show my players your suggestions.

The party in my current campaign don't have a name yet, but all the groups they are facing do so I suspect they will catch on eventually (and I like the suggestions in this thread about having others name them otherwise). My next campaign will involve the party restarting the group known as the...

I rather like it. Actually, there seems to be less white space than is usual for 4E books. I wonder if this would be 64 pages if the Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide layout was used? ;) Despite liking it, essentially it's just a large Dragon article. This is definitely, for me at least, the...

After waiting about five weeks for Plane Below to arrive here in Oz... and it's still not here... I bought Underdark (and Plane Below) from Amazon and they only took two business days to arrive. (Very cool. Sorry, FLGS, but I cannot keep waiting and waiting.) I've read most of Underdark so far...

I bought all the PCs but there were some really odd choices, including the dragonborn rogue. Why not do a quick survey first and see what are the most popular gender, class and race combinations then produce PC minis. Too many of them seem like they're never going to see use, except as battlemat...

Toss a "shamelessly" in there and you win!

I like to build things. I'm always the DM, have been for the 29 or so years I've been playing. IRL, I build businesses and/or change/reform them. Strangely enough my hobby parallels that. If ever I had the chance to play again, it would have to be in a game where I can explore the history...

I would echo those remarks. This thread is one of the ones that convinced me to give 4E a good go and I am happy that I did. It's funny but, for me at least, actual play/story hour/campaign journals are the best form of advertising or marketing of any game or game product (it was the uniformly...

I'm a committed 4E DM and yet the quality of Paizo's products, which I continue to buy, caused me to buy Pathfinder and, I know in my gut, I'll be running it before long even though I really like 4E. All that rules and edition war nonsense aside, Paizo does support their game with well-written...

+1 for Paul Kidd. He really was a breath of fresh air when so many D&D novels at the time were not very good. "... were not very good" is my way of complying with the board rules rather an accurate statement of how I really felt. ;)

The new Chaos Scar "sandbox" is made of up five or six 1st-level delves (not full adventures) and a 2nd-level delve. I like them and plan to use most of them. There is a thread on the WotC boards that lists all of the Dungeon adventures by level with a short summary. I can't find the link...

Very cool, Windjammer. I would love to brainstorm some ideas for all of those locations at some point but it is really difficult on all the boards I frequent to collaborate on anything to do with FR4E because it inevitably provokes an edition war. Hmmm... maybe over at loremaster.org?

Very cool, Windjammer. I would love to brainstorm some ideas for all of those locations at some point but it is really difficult on all the boards I frequent to collaborate on anything to do with FR4E because it inevitably provokes an edition war. Hmmm... maybe over at loremaster.org?

I always liked the Campaign Hexagon System from Judges Guild for the way it broke down the larger campaign hex into smaller hexes. It was the perfect way to build a sandbox (and I loved the little descriptions given in their Wilderlands products: one or two sentences that you could build into an...