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You may find value in the Young Persons Adventure League. It's a website dedicated to getting kids into RPGs.

Not at all, that's some great stuff, there. While I don't want Geartooth to be too large of a town, some of those ideas are perfect. It only stands to reason that there would be a crafting guild (which, in my campaign, means a concentration of dwarves, generally considered the most...

Heh. The Clockwork Mage and the Moonchokers are actually longstanding characters from one campaign to the next, so they're somewhat locked into position. The failed apprentice will be the first of his kind. While the players may be surprised by the new versions in this sequel campaign, they...

This, I LIKE. A LOT. A bunch of hatchlings and one rust monster 'queen' that the players hunt or evade in search of a foozle. This must be worked into the plot.

OK, let me just drop in a few comments, here. 1) There are no more Saturday Morning Cartoons, at least not as my generation knew them. 24-hour kids networks finished them off after years of declining ratings and media consolidations (non-Disney on ABC? Not after 1995.) beat them down. Fox...

I appreciated your point them out to me. Unfortunately, they're mostly filled with 3.5 crunch that wouldn't really help me with this particular idea. A lot of that is geared more along Steampunk lines and player options.

His rules knowledge is so complete....they have created vaccines for it. Years ago, he created a tower out of dice....today, over 100 wizards and apprentices study there. He is the only man to have ever successfully completed every test in all the Challenge of Champions modules. His legend...

I'm thinking more in terms of regular clockworks that have been "infected" and made into zombie clockworks, really. I don't want the town to be a zombie apocalypse...at least not when the players first arrive. There may be some irregularities, but I don't want actual human-hosts for the...

I like that for the BBEG behind them. But what would somebody like that guy from Oz at the top of the thread...how would he appear different once infected? Would he throw sparks? Look rusted? I'm thinking that if a person gets bitten and infected by a zombie, they go pale, have bloody...

Just to clarify, there is no federal regulations that I'm aware of that prevents minors from opening up their own bank accounts. Regulations that exist are on the state level, more generally. The primary reason that few banks or states allow minors to open accounts is because it is a legal...

I had a similar idea that there would be some dedicated tracks throughout the town...but I like the idea of rotating tiles in the town square, like a train's wheelhouse that rotates at different times, to reroute things. It would be great to let the players deduce this fact after seeing it...

I luvs me Da Vinci's stuff, so that's a winner, right there. And Modrons are always fun. Have they been brought into 4E, yet? I don't see them in the compendium, so I'm guessing not. Perhaps I can find something similar.

I won't lie: I considered a variation of this for the adventure name. :D

Let's take a different tack, for a second. The beholder is undead AND lazy. What if it didn't take any precautions at all? What if the additional hazard was the environment itself? This depends on the beholder's intelligence and state of mind. Is it smart enough, in it's current state, to...

This makes up for you admitting you were WRONG up-thread. Seriously, Kevin...never let them know you made a mistake. It only gives them HOPE.

Mad? Really only about one thing. That the switchover caused ENworld to be such an angry, angry place. :(

So I've decided that the next adventure in my game will take place in the Town of Geartooth, a largish village that has grown up around the estate of an entity known as the Clockwork Mage. The famed but generally reclusive wizard known for creating gimgaws and gadgets of every size and shape...

D&D wasn't so much marketed to kids so much as it wasn't NOT marketed to kids. By the time of the Basic Set, D&D was clearly trying to get a younger and/or broader audience. But in the 1970s, it certainly wasn't being targeted to a younger audience. By 1980, word was getting around, however...

I didn't mean to suggest that they were simpler...only different. If 3.5 is standard spaghetti sauce, then perhaps M&M is d20 'robusto', while Blue Rose is 'extra chunky' and Midnight is 'garden variety'. This isn't to say that D&D couldn't be simpler or that simpler version would not be...

Well, that assumes massive differences between the versions, if you were to follow that route. I don't necessarily think that such massive differences are required. For example, many of the d20 variants out there did NOT require massive retooling to use the same core mechanics...and yet they...