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My non-gaming wife is that kind of wise. I gamed long before I met her (late 70s) and I will game until I am too feeble to make bad puns, quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail, consume the ritual pizza and soda (aka "gamer communion") swap tech support horror stories or Alzheimer's destroys the...

I don't game through extreme pain. Good show, though My hardcore story concerns one of my players. I am the 40-year-old-plus DM Emertius for a small game club. All the players are in their early 20s, virtually all of them gaming at my table since they were mid-teens, over five years for some of...

Minor and Major metaplots My campaign has one major metaplot -- the tension between Magic as Art (Sorcerers) and Magic as Science (Wizards). This metaplot spans millennia and is cross-planar. This is a philosophical struggle, one that sets the flavor of the various eras of my game world's...

Homebrew Calenders My gameworld is a homebrew that combines historical elements as well as a bit of the Realms. I stick with the 365-day year with 12 x 30 day months (this allows "tenday" weeks that recognizable to the FR-aholics that play in my game) with a 5 or 6 day Holiday period called...

DM Bribery for XPs Not exactly a house rule, but applicable in my gaming group: My group started a tradition of bribing me with snacks and diet soda for mercy and for really good snacks like Her Infernal Blondness' Meatlike substance on a stick (tm) or Guinness, for XP. The gang has even...

The Race / Class I cannot stand to play 1. Races: Humanoid: DL Kender. Slay them ALL. I'd rather play a Giant Space Hamster from Starjammer than a kender. -- I think I'll try one as a monster in my next game: Hamstur the Unsqueakable, chaotic evil giant space hamster! 2. Classes: To me, NONE...

"The last thing you remember is your painful deaths. You wake up naked on a slab beside a river. A bireme is pulling into a dock next to the slab . . . "

My GM story Scene: Late 1980s. Group: about a dozen ex- and -current military types ranging in age from late 20s to late 40s gathered at the Alpha Geek's garage to play a blend of GURPS and BattleTech -- mech battles and roleplaying. At this time, Original BT, NOT that dumbed-down version...

LOL.. Those Star Wars-themed names brought back some horrible, silly flashbacks that I've spent twenty-plus years ripping from my poor mind... Nuke Sleepwalker...Princess Lay-ya...Chew'bacco...Dwarf Raider...Ob-one Ravioli, Dead-Guy Knight Other favorite ODnD character names: Ms. Bette Badass...

Yeah verily, those were the days. Nowadays, when I play (I almost always DM) at cons I whip out Son of Xe, aka Xenophon, 8th level dwarf fighter and aspiring runecaster / cleric of Tyr. I *love* Third Ed! --Basil

Played WW LARP for a time. I love Werewolf and I was really into it for a time. HOW into it? Well, I was playing a granola-crunching acolyte of Jerry Garcia named Uncle John who was a Galliard Child of Gaia. Think tye-dyed hippy stoner relic of the 60s who smoked pot to keep away his "bad...

My first character was a dwarf fighter I created back in my military days (early '78 -- 25 years ago) named Xenon. "Xe" was pretty cool. When he hit 6th level (max for a dwarf back in the OD&D days...) he had one of those double-ended axe / club weapons the Vulcans used in that episode of ST...