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Please, help me understand your point of view on this, because here's something that I don't understand... Why is it assumed that heroes are successful most of the time? Or that bad things never happen to heroes? I've always felt that heroes are people who are outmatched by their circumstances...

Just a bit of semantic opinion on my part... I usually DM more than play, but in my opinion, the DM is a "player" just as much as anyone else at the table. The DM is there to have fun, he just gets to portray the monsters and NPCs in the setting they choose and perhaps design. Sometimes, I...

I'm of mixed attitudes regarding "save-or-die" effects. As a DM, I'm sort of lukewarm about them. Using a save-or-die monster like a medusa doesn't necessarily indicate that you're a bad DM--adventuring is a dangerous business. If any farmboy that grabs a longsword and a suit of armor can shrug...

Probably not. I played 4E for a while (over a year) and DMed a campaign into the mid-paragon tier, but those days are basically over. I'm not saying that I hate 4E or that WotC ate my kittens or anything... But the expectations of the typical 4E player that I have encountered do not mesh with...

We don't post anything about it... But I'll give you the brief rundown. The inspiration came from a Forgotten Realms game that I was playing under the Pathfinder rules. Basically, the DM and I have been playing for decades, but the rest of the players have missed several things that we consider...

In my group: • One married • One divorced • One single • Two couples Whatever stereotypes of "gamers as loners" you may have been exposed to, my own experiences have been quite to the contrary. In my experience, many gamers are moderate-to-extremely social people and enjoy being in large...

Sadly, I'd have to say that Greyhawk is largely irrelevant to many gamers these days. I personally love the setting, but it's mostly a "legacy setting" to today's gamers. I'm actually running a Greyhawk game right now under Pathfinder rules for my players that don't really know much about it. I...

I have to back up Perram's experience with my own. At my own FLGS, the 4E material is sort of just sitting there gathering dust on the shelf. When a new splatbook comes out, they will sell a few copies, but it's obvious that the Pathfinder material outsells it by a large margin. It's still...

I don't think that anyone (either Wizards of the Coast or Paizo) underestimated Paizo's effect on the industry. Paizo was known for quality content before Pathfinder, and they are known for quality content after Pathfinder. It's not as if they would or would not have produced quality content...

I've rolled high in a dramatic situation once in approximately twenty years of gaming... Once. As a 2nd-level wizard in my very first 3E Greyhawk game, our party encountered a horde of goblins with a worg outside the ruins of Castle Greyhawk. Our monk was the first to die. He had just hit 2nd...

The idea of a "gamer pub" sounds incredibly awesome to me. I must confess, what I have in mind is almost more like a pool hall than an Irish pub, though. I could appreciate having a pool table or two and some dartboards in addition to board games and play space for tabletop RPGS. I totally agree...

Yeah, the only way I could conceivably see making a mini library viable is to effectively rent them for as much as they'd cost to buy, then refunding most of the deposit when they're turned back in. You wanna use the huge red dragon? That's $20, and when you turn it back in, you get $18 back...

I certainly appreciate the policy of my FLGS: they let you have whatever you want as long as you bring it yourself and you keep it in one of the private play rooms. I can only speak for myself, not for others, so I totally understand game store owners not wanting to sell alcohol... But I never...

Just my two cents... • Please, please, PLEASE sell alcohol in one form or another. I can understand if you don't want to make me a classic martini, but even a decent beer or two would go a long way to keeping me at the store all day and for a good portion of the evening. If you can sell me...

I got Tomb of Horrors at my FLGS yesterday. I haven't had much of a chance to read through it yet, but one thing I already dig immensely is a sidebar in the beginning, called "Step and Die." It basically tells you how to make the content more lethal if you want the old-school 1E feel. Things...

One of the best things that I've ever done for my own 3.5 and Pathfinder games was to use the vitality/wound point system as described in Unearthed Arcana. Although it has little impact on the game in and of itself, a simple name change has done wonders for my player's immersion. The people who...

I'm really digging Pathfinder, but it does have one glaring thing that I want to change. Druids are still a bit too over-powered to me. They can do a bit of everything, and I don't quite want them to be so versatile. They also have a grab-bag of odds-and-ends abilities that are situationally...

I got mine today. It's particularly awesome because my FLGS gave me a discount because it's my birthday... I love my new FLGS.

I don't know, in particular. The little things that can enhance my own DMing, if I can ever get myself on the other side of the screen. For example, I once saw a DM write down character's names on index cards and lay them out on the table beside the mat in initiative order. Nowadays, I fold...

This player is in their mid-forties, introducing their children (late teens to early twenties) to the game now. They actually have tried their hand at DMing and I'm curious about it. I'd love to sit in on a session to see how other DMs do things. I have noticed that very few 4E games use house...