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I prefer a perennial campaign setting. But I have played in a couple of single-use settings (I prefer that definition because "one-shot" implies a single game session to my mind). I enjoyed them quite a lot, but I wish the GMs who ran them would run something else in those settings so I could...

LOL! I'm taking notes from this thread. It's full of useful information! :D Right now my fiancee is thinking of running a fighter/paladin specializing in archery. So we're thinking we might make our characters related, and then his PC can look after mine - or vice-versa when my PC can cast...

Excellent suggestion! :)

I wasn't so much worried about a wizard with no spells to cast not being fun to play - I can make any character fun to play - as I was having such a character become a liability to the party. I don't want the rest of the group to have to protect my character all the time. I am a little worried...

I don't think it's necessarily even a bad thing if the players find out the GM has been leading them on. It's only bad if that is revealed to them in a negative way, such as the GM laughing at them or gloating about how he lured them into a disastrous situation. Sometimes I can see the plot...

In an ideal world, boerngrim, your nephew would have been considerate enough to call you and let you know that the lack of a babysitter would prevent them from joining you. But sadly we don't live in an ideal world. As Warbringer points out, family members often do things to other family members...

I've never played a first-level wizard in 3E, and I'm contemplating playing one. What deters me a bit is the fact that a low-level wizard has so few spells per day, and so few hit points and weapon proficiencies, that it seems like a wizard could become pretty useless if she's out of spells...

I don't think non-railroading means a plot-free game. To me it means that the GM offers options and gives the players the freedom to choose any of those options or come up with something of their own, rather than trying to push them in a certain specific direction. For example, the players...

ROTFLMAO!! This thread just made my day. :lol:

We used something similar to adapt a campaign from 2E to 3E. The PCs went back in time to experience the Time of Troubles in the Forgotten Realms. When the GM was ready to convert he ruled that the PCs could remember a time when things like sorcerers didn't exist, since they'd been present at...

This sounds a bit familiar. :) 'Mystery Men' Champions/Risus In Campaign City, the top gun of the superhero world is Captain Paragon. But his brother Captain Amazing has gone missing in Champion City and Captain Paragon must take his place. Who will protect the citizens of Campaign City now...

I gave it a 7. I didn't have high expectations, and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

Oh, dear. I see a feat one of my GMs isn't going to allow. He already hates that PCs can buy healing wands and get themselves back to full after most combats. (Don't ask why he doesn't make wands harder to find; I don't know.)

I used to see movies on my own a lot more often when I was younger and didn't have many friends who had similar tastes to mine. Nowadays I don't have any trouble getting someone to go to a movie with me. I pretty much have a guaranteed movie-viewing buddy in my fiancee. :D But if there was...

I saw part of one episode in Rome, but found the host really irritating and switched channels.

The BBC is evil. No Doctor Who for two weeks, and then they show us a trailer for the entire rest of the season, as if I weren't already salivating for more!! I particularly enjoyed seeing Mark Gatiss in this episode. He did a great job as Lazarus. I liked the exchange between Lazarus and the...

Azlin's tale, part 4 I hate to get so far ahead of Artemis's journals, but the campaign will be on hiatus for several weeks while we return temporarily to our Greyhawk campaign (Journey to the Sea). So here's my next entry. sniffles _____________________ Seems my new companions don't know much...

Ropers and Ladders In the golden radiance of Lathander that shone from Liadan, I could see clearly the misshapen and hideously colored fungi that covered the floor of the subterranean chamber. I have never cared for such fungi as are considered a culinary delicacy by some. To me they taste of...

It's both. As to whether I'd like it to be more or less abstract, I like less abstract combat - I cut my roleplaying teeth on RuneQuest and I like the hit point/armor point per body part mechanic - but I'm not sure I'd want D&D to follow suit. It's so detailed in other areas that sometimes it's...

A friend of mine was doing just that in a humorous pick-up game. Entirely for his own amusement. We only made it to 6th level, I think. He had levels in monk, rogue, cleric, druid... I forget what else. Every time he took a new level, he announced that his character had "discovered his inner...