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Hey man, good to see the story hour back in action. Funny enough mine has fallen by the wayside as well. Coincidentlly my party in our d20 game spent inordinate amounts of time stuck in Riverside recovering. Keep up the good work. Later

From your post I'm not quite sure what kind of help you're looking. Sounds like a pretty classic zombie attack, always fun. Off-hand the only thing I can think of is that zombies normally are pretty easy to defeat even for a low-level party. So you might to add some other undead in the mix to...

This is documenting the beginnings of my current campaign, this is all stuff thats roughly 3 months old or so. The story will focus on Miller for the next dozen or so posts then more characters will make their appearance. As for the payphones. They do still exist, albeit in a much more...

I've always allowed alcohol at games, frequently consume it myself. I've never had any problems with my players getting to drunk or anything. Most of the time it's a bottle of wine or a few beers split amongst the group. However, there has been a time or two when I was actually drunk as the...

...remember that better lives have been lived in the margins, locked in the prisons and lost on the gallows than have ever been enshrined in palaces ________________________________________________________________________ Ding... Ding... Ding... Something chimed in his head. Echoed...

I've been in a similar position myself, with a two player high magic game. Not as bad as one player but neither of my players opted for a caster class either. One thing that you might want to think about doing is limiting or eliminating some of the more crippling spells that could end the...

Alright the suggestions you've put out are really helpful, you guys have tagged a few items I've never even heard off. Quick question for those of you that have all played with these third party products, how are their rules for combat ? I've run a contemporary D20 Modern game for close to a...

So I'm about to start game set in a futuristic setting loosely modeled on the concepts found in William Gibson's novels. And I'm looking for suggestions for a D20 system to use with this game. I know that Shadowrun blends well and even borrows elements from Gibson but I dislike the dice pool...

Well I've played a bard all the way up to lvl 13. And I got to say they're always useful, interesting, and fun but they sure aren't as powerful as some of the other classes. But I'd still recommend playing one as long as your campaign isn't total hack and slash. Bards really excel at...

By far the most sucessful inn name in a game I've played has been the Drunk Duck not all that imaginative but it stuck. And then kept reappear no matter the campaign or world. And to make it even better someone found a sign online for what I can only guess was once a real pub that said the...

Well Pierce if thats the case you and your Medallions group should know you inspired me to try my hand at D20 modern game as well. It's been a blast reading about your game and I'm glad you guys show just how much fun D20 modern can be.

Got to say one surprisingly fun encounter for me as a DM and one that was surprisingly tough for my PCs involved chuuls and aquatic elves attacking the party on a ferry crossing a marsh. I slapped the Warbeast Templates on the chuuls (not sure if that is technically possible under the rules but...

For a short historical look at the samurai I'd recommend looking at the Hagakure. I'd go with the William Scott Wilson translation, its a solid piece of work with a good into. If you don't know the Hagakure is probably the best know piece of philosophy/instruction on Bushido (or the Way of the...

I'm about to launch into a summer campaign with the PCs starting out at a pretty high level, to be exact they'll be level 18. This coming week I'm going to be sitting down with the players to work out the backstories of their PCs. I'm wondering what sort of backstory would work to explain the...

Well this weekend I managed to get a look at the gestalt rules and I agree with you guys. The modern classes just don't seem to work well with the idea of the gestalt rules. Any suggestions on helping the lone PC cope with being the only party member though ?

Ok I'm not really sure if this has been asked before so I apologize if it has. I'm working up a new D20 game set in the near future using a heavily modified set of D20 Modern rules. I'll only have one PC to start with so I was wondering if using Gestalt classes for the PC would be a good idea...

Alright so here's even more stuff for this homebrew system of mine. First off a few broader campaign things to note that I've firmly decided on so far. First of them being the elimination of sorcerers as a class. I simply don't feel that they fit well in my world, and as a second arcane...

I guess maybe I wasn't clear enough about this. Drothgery I know you can't predict the future with any actually accuracy but I'm trying to create a reasonably believable timeline. It doesn't have to be completely plausible but having one helps and I'm just looking for creative ideas to include...

With the close of the school year my current campaigns are coming to a close. :( Subsequently, I'm working on creating new ones to play sometime in the future. A long standing ambition of mine has been to play a gritty William Gibson-esque campaign set in the near future. Now's my chance, and...

Ok so instead of writing a take home final essay I'm goofing off dreaming up magic systems for DnD. Academics what ?? ;) Anyways on to things other than my academic apathy. I have read and reread all of the suggestions on arcane magic. I've also gone through a bunch of my books looking at...