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My homegrown fantsasy world takes inspiration primarily from Mesopotamia ca. 2000 BCE and the D&D Known World/Hollow World. There are a handful of reasonably well-known nation-states interact with each other as necessary, but culture and geography can vary dramatically in fairly short distances...

I bought an oversized Rick Roll d20 off someone on etsy.

In the three-rogue sub-team, I definitely took charge and was kind of configuring what we were going to do. Now, that's part of any normal game on the player side, of course. But since I normally DM and get to decide what all the monsters and NPCs are going to do, it kind of feels like I was...

I've never had a campiagn that was "short-term" on purpose, either as a player or a game master. There were plenty that came to an end before any of us intended them to, because people were no longer available or whatever, but I don't really plan for finite arcs. What I try to do (since I...

Dude. I'm so all for it. I never cared much about the FF one way or the other, but I love Silver Surfer and I dig everything I'm seeing here. Including the shadow of Galactus. Maybe they'll do it right this time.

Oh, absolutely. And VTTs alllow access ot the game for people who can't get to a F2F game for whatever reason as well. I understand that; I've been running a second game online for my kid and his friends through Roll20 because they all live 3,000 ish miles from me. I'm not disparaging VTTs at...

I initially voted "probably not" but quickly changed my vote to "never." I can see a case, distasteful as it may be, for a small independent designer using AI either to create art or guide their writing. But I've also seen the pushback against folks doing that, and in one specific case of which...

My preference has always been, and seems it always will be, face to face play in perosn. There some real advantages to VTTs, such as the fog of war, but all in all I think nothing can replace the camaraderie that develops playing in person. Maybe I'm just old. I ran the first session of a new...

Dragging pirate corpses though caves.

Hmm. Despite the thread title, there's no "I don't multiclass" option in the poll.

Sweet! I remember when the Shackled City campaign started back in Dungeon Magazine. My group abandoned the adventure(s) pretty quickly but we used Cauldron as a home base for years.

Was coming here to say this. Nothing beats the experience of my high school years in the mid 90s for me here: the best friends I ever had, playing D&D for hours and hours and hours across 3-4 different campaigns per week, and just letting our imaginations run wild.

Upstream someone mentioned Glen Cook for the Black Company, and I'd like to add his Garrett Files to the list. Pular Singe, Tinnie Tate, Deal Relway, Morley Dotes, Saucerhead Tharpe, Westman Block, Belinda Contague, Harvester Temisk, the Dead Man, Marengo North English, Glory Mooncalled, The...

No game; player couldn't make it. :cry:

A setting I've been developing for a while now is based on Mesopotamia and the surrounding area ca. 2000 BCE. As a student of architectural and urban development history, this culture and period has long been a point of facination for me.

I find boxed text to be invaluable, but so, so, much of it is just WAY too long and often rather obtuse. I tend to make a joke of it when I'm runing games. I remember reading a suggestion somewhere that boxed text shouldn't be more than two sentences, and should focus on what a character can...

Hear, hear. I remember seeing this ad in a Dragon Magazine and feeling it in my soul.