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If they're going to be running evil characters, I strongly recommend talking to the players out-of-character and explaining to them that since this is a game for the entire group, there are a few things they should ensure. One - PCs don't kill other PCs. Two - Play smart evil, where you realize...

I didn't describe myself as having a mental or emotional disorder. Pawsplay said I might have one and I joked that my sister (whose attitudes disagree from mine) would probably agree. That's all. I do take pride in being myself, mainly because I made myself the person I want to be, but that's...

That's just fricking beautiful!

My experience with the adventure? I read it and realized that not only would I never run it but I'd never play in it, since it was almost diametrically opposed to my gaming style and tastes.

Not necessarily. I'm often pointing rules interpretations out to my DMs which negatively impact mine and/or the other PCs. And I'm not the only player in my groups who does that. I'll admit we're not in the majority, however :)

My players roleplay constantly as do we in the games where I play instead of DMing, but I have to say that if the DM (me or another) started saying something like that, the players would look at him and go, "Dude - did you just try to molest us with boxed text?" :D

No problem. That's what I like about ENWorld. I can have civil (well, unless I'm arguing about 4e right now :D) discussions with people about what elves should eat, or whether Edmund Spenser provides appropriate archetypes for paladins, or whether I'm a robot or a Vulcan. I understand that...

Gah! Are you trying to make Rackhir shoot me in the face? *phew* Well, it is a personal judgement, but that's okay. I figure everyone has a right to make their own personal judgements. My sister would tell you I do have one. It's being me :) For me, being afraid of losing my loved ones...

Yes, that's what I'm saying. Admittedly I don't have either a wife or any children, so I haven't experienced precisely what you described, but I have lost a couple of family members (dad, grandmom) and friends over the last few years. And in no case did it bother me. Did I think it would have...

I ran my two Eberron games this weekend. In the Saturday game, the PCs got to fight gnolls wielding Bohemian Earspoons. And on Sunday the PCs ran up against a CR 20 black dragon named Xagygyrag (read that backwards), who was handing their asses to them when they came up with something which...

My two bits? The death of Gary Gygax makes no difference to me. I got into gaming in 1999, when his direct influence on D&D was very low, if not non-existent, and from what I've seen of 1e and things Gary has said here on ENWorld, his gaming philosophy and style were mostly very different from...

Why don't you ask the players? I think it's always a good thing to know what your players are thinking and why they're doing things, and the best way to find out is to have them tell you. And if that's the case, then I think it's important to tell players explicitly that it's not the case and...

That, for me, is like asking how tough it should be for a group of PCs to attack a human camp. It depends completely on what the camp consists of. In your specific case, with there being 800-1000 hogoblins, the PCs are very dead if they try it, even if all the hobgoblins are levels 1-2...

Shil's rule 4 for survival on the internet: Thou shalt not care when a random stranger who you will likely never meet expresses an opinion contrary to yours.

This seems a little quick on the "I take umbrage" response to me. Firstly, why the assumption that the DM didn't use Listen checks? Some DMs may roll secretly for the PCs. And some of us beat 4e to the idea of passive Listen checks, where we just assume every PC is taking 10, and if the NPCs...

You beat me to it. Damn you, Olgar Shiverstone, damn you to heck!

Yes, you're being overly sensitive. That was easy :)

Just because it's written with the assumption that most PCs are not normally of huge size doesn't mean it's poorly written. If the rules covered every corner case, each spell and power description would be ten times as long. And huge PCs, which almost never show up, is very definitely a corner...

If the NPC has 5HD or more, get a friendly cleric to cast Imbue with Spell Ability on the NPC and grant him a Shield Other spell. And then get the NPC to cast it. The NPC can also get two 1st level spells to cast, so either give him healing ones or buffs for the bad guy.

Ignore levels and what the PCs do in-game and just award them the appropriate amount of XP per session to keep them advancing at a speed you are comfortable with.