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In the hypothetical, very specific ideas will bring players back. In the actual, I suspect very little will. Because many of the specific actions already mentioned are either short-term fixes for a specific goal (PDFs) or long-term fixes which just don't appear to be fiscally well-grounded or...

As Umbran points out, folks like Courtney Love and others have revealed the financial details of working with big recording companies and how bands must 'recoup' the company's investment. Bands can be selling gold records and still not be putting food on the table. The system is horribly...

Very glad to hear this and I hope it resolves the issue for all involved. The only wrong way to play D&D is to not have fun. I'm glad to hear that John was reasonable and that everyone discussed the situation and their perspectives and came to an understanding. Now, get to work. Those orcs...

Ugh. I read Memory, Sorrow and Thorn and enjoyed it until the actual ending, which made me mad as a hornet. I felt incredibly cheated by his ending, especially as I thought it was a brilliant ride, which made the conclusion that much more of a cheat to me. I guess it was Tolkien, if:

Oh, the Zombie Bees worked just fine. The players found themselves rescuing a little girl from a burning smokehouse and then having to fight some of the creeper's abominations as well as trying not to hurt the infected family members. At least one of the players was badly infected and needed...

To be honest, I really would advise against this sort of approach, for a few reasons. IME, tiered XP systems, where you reward certain styles of play and punish others, has a strong tendency to backfire. Instead of enforcing desired behaviors, it merely punishes and adds an air of favoritism...

Oh, the Zombie Bees worked just fine. The players found themselves rescuing a little girl from a burning smokehouse and then having to fight some of the creeper's abominations as well as trying not to hurt the infected family members. At least one of the players was badly infected and needed...

Oh, SNAP. To quote Batman: "Bees. MY GOD." That's just beautiful. A nearby farm outside of town that's been taken over by the Creeper and he's using the apiary the farmer has. Perhaps there's even...dare I say it? EVIL HONEY.

I should clarify a little of what happened, prior. The players have been travelling from a town called Geartooth, where they were sent on a fact-finding mission to meet someone called the Clockwork Mage. There were killer lumberjack automatons and crazed assassins...the usual. At the end of it...

I'm glad to hear that the discussion has been a help to you. Honestly, though this may not be the most pleasant interaction you'll have with a person, it will work out for the better. I don't know John, so I wouldn't hazard to guess at his goals or playstyle...but it seems fairly clear that he...

But petitioners don't provide deities with power via worship. They're just servants for achieving tasks. Depending on the cosmology, this deprives them of power or even existence. Killing all of your followers to maintain their goodness before they might go bad isn't good sense. Further, if...

The problem here seems to be the assumption that the methodology of the sniper is, in your mind, inherently evil. Lee Harvey Oswald was an assassin in the fashion that he killed someone outside of a theater of war, but wasn't an Assassin, a trained professional killer, in the D&D sense. He...

That only makes sense if celestials and infernals had unfetered access to the Prime Material Plane and influenced the world daily. That also assumes that servants of a particular deity immediately (or ever) become celestials/infernals. And that the source of a deity's power is not tied to...

Interesting thread, but not really similar to what I'm doing, other than a sorta similar monster. Thanks, though.

Well, in this case, not so much. The PCs are members of an order of monster hunters. One of the pcs made his check and IDed what they were facing, as well as that this one was unusual. The townsfolk would turn to them for help in such a case. Sending scouts in the town might work, but probably...

We do have one: the Deepwood Sniper. Who is NOT evil.

First off, welcome to the forums. :) Second, Umbran's advice above is pretty solid. Listen to it. Be forthright and be honest. Anything else merely delays and intensifies the bad feelings that may occur and can turn a bad situation into something worse. Dungeons and Dragons (and all table...

Does "Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil" count? Yes, it's actually three or four dungeons, but once you get to the main dungeon, that seems like it would be pretty representative (complete with discussions of how to restock and alert levels and such).

So help me brainstorm here. My players are travelling cross-country from their previous adventure and returning back to the island-castle that their order calls home. More importantly, they have come into possession of a very powerful artifact that they are gingerly transporting to have their...

It gets worse. I heard Kevin say he loves them best. True fact.