Search results

I generally DM, and when I play it's usually a one-shot or mini-campaign so I've never really had to make that choice. However, in the campaigns I run, the permanent deaths outnumber the temporary ones. Notably, one of my players refused to have his dwarf raised just because he didn't think it...

Yeah, the valley was pretty well done as a mini-campaign setting, though I think it could have been a little more "mini", considering that the idea is that you can drop it right into an existing setting. At more than 200 miles in diameter, the valley is hard to just drop in anywhere. I'm not...

Too late, I already bought it, I was just looking for some discussion about it. Stormborn & Rafael, thanks for the links, I will check them out (but don't let that stop anyone who has more to say about it here, I'm still reading).

I like the idea of a perennial campaign worlds for my standard D&D fantasy, long term campaigns, but like using other worlds for games that have a different focus, like a pulpy Eberron adventure or a gritty Dark Sun mini-series.

Maybe I was just out of the loop this winter, but I am sort of surprised that I have seen no talk of this adventure, nor are there any reviews of it in the database. I was behind on my reading the past few months and am just getting to it now. Though not anything revolutionary, it seems okay...

Green Adam, is the thread title a nod to the Flaming Lips' 20 Years of Weird compilation?

I understand that not everything fits on a given page, but making info like this the first to be cut sort of defeats the purpose of including it at all.

Function over form. I love a pretty map, but it has to be able to get the job done. Jaws & Eric are right, Chris West is the master at this; his maps are beautiful while remaining completely functional. Rob Lazzaretti's maps on the other hands are aesthetically attractive but often lacking in...

Drop the "most likely" and this would sum up my position exactly.

I've only read 5 pages of this thread, and though I would love to keep going, I do have to get back to work. That said, I did want to chime in to say that I think this is a huge mistake on WotC's part. Dragon and Dungeon are huge factors in keeping me interested in Dungeons & Dragons even...

Perhaps I need to read it again with a higher degree of attention, but from what I saw in that article, there wasn't nearly enough info about how the condition track works to even begin to judge it.

I haven't used the new format in play yet but so far I'm not a fan. It is very jarring when reading the module to flip back and forth between the main text and the tactical section. Furthermore, it often seems that where a give piece of info gets printed is based more about where it fits space...

I never liked beer in high school and in general am not one to keep doing something unpleasant until I like it, so I have never been a cigarette smoker or coffee drinker. However, in college I found that always having to find something else to drink instead of beer eventually became a hassle...

Apparently Ms. Mead is unaware of that TSR published novels. ;)

Yeah, stuff was coming out at a way faster rate in the 2e era; I'd say about 5-6 game products* a week compared to 2-3 now. *for me that means rulebooks, supplements, & adventures...not novels, art books, minis or other tie-in games. And of course that's WotC only. Lots of third-party...

My wife and I are going out on Friday, but that's only because we'd rather enjoy a nice dinner out when we don't have to deal with the hassle of a pre-set menu and V-day crowd. We'll probably spend this evening together anyway, but more because she just go back to town from a business trip than...

We have no such restrictions. In my regular group, most of us are already friends anyway. A couple of them tend to rile up some of the others (some on purpose, some not) but not in a particularly harmful way, and not about any political/social/religious issue. Similarly, when I play with...

Additional details from the Doomgrinder adventure follow in spoiler tags:

Yes, I think that returning from the dead is generally too common in D&D, so in my game I raised the level of all spells that do so by either 1 or 2 levels (I forget which), with True Resurrection being unavailable. I'll have to say, this thread seems to have a lot more good ideas for...

Mine is the DM from the Jeff Easley cover that graced the Dungeon Master's Guide (also the DM's screen) in the later half of the first edition era.