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This. I can't count the number of "screenwriters" who have never sold a word because they either don't have the discipline to sit down and actually write something worth selling or they feel like someone owes them a break to get their foot in the door. When people hear the job title "writer,"...

Thanks for all the input. Now that I've had some time to think about it... I kinda knew that I'm going to kick this person out, I just needed to hear some validation that I'm doing the right thing to work up the gumption to do it. Seems like I should clarify a bit though... She's missed an...

I know everyone has a problem player every once in a while, so I'm venting as much as soliciting advice on the situation. Please advise me... I've got a player that really gets on my nerves. They refuse to read the rules on the basis that the character builder on DDI prints out cards with all...

I'm doing some of my shopping online for Christmas (and sneaking in a few D&D books with the purchase). Alas, when I go to get the DMG2, there's no option to buy it directly from amazon--only third party sellers. Sorry if this is old news but I've been out of the loop... Was it delayed for some...

This is pretty much my attitude towards 4E at the moment. My passion for the game has been waning over the past two years or so. Most of the products either don't seem usable in their presented format or seem like generic clones of D&D rather than the genuine article. There's a lot that I...

I found the old 1E Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide in the local public library when I was eight years old. I checked them out and read them, and the concept of a fantasy role-playing game amazed me. Unfortunately, it was nearly a year before I was able to find a game. Some teenagers...

I have this problem something fierce. Back in high school, I was nicknamed "the campaign reaper," because every campaign I joined wound down or petered out as their players worked their way into my games. It actually made some of the other DMs pretty upset... Since 4E came out, I've gotten to...

I don't use them. I find flipping through a stack of cards tedious, and the character builder is so clunky it's frustrating. I'm much happier writing my characters up in a simple word document with all the relevant bits for play (I've decided to attach one for those interested in an example)...

That's good stuff, Nightson. I'm kinda frustrated that so many of the official Camarilla sites are dead links now though... Oh well. I had my first meeting with the narrators tonight and everything went well.

I've been tossing around the idea of doing a LARP game for a few years now, but work has generally kept me busy enough to relegate the idea to daydreams... Until recently. I'm finally in a position to get my weekends free most of the time, and my desire to start my own LARP has intensified...

Of course I did. Most serious gamers, at some point in their lives, get the design bug. They may fiddle with character sheets, house rules, and the like, but eventually, most gamers get the itch to build something from the ground up. My own system was finagled between 1997-98, and involved...

I own most every 3E and 3.5 product published by WotC. I didn't get the last Eberron sourcebook that was all fluff and I didn't get the Grand Compendium of the Realms. But everything else, I got. The big reason behind this is because I had enough disposable income to buy all the D&D stuff I...

What I've been doing with the screen for years is paper-clipping my adventure notes, encounter plans, and all that directly to the DM screen itself. The big reason for this is that I don't have to break my eyeline with my players as much to check my notes. I find that to be the most distracting...

In my first 4E game, I actually wiped the party once. But alot of that was due to bad rolls and stubborn players--they decided to keep fighting the killer kobolds even after they were smitten by six crits within eight attacks, then proceeded to go after the big bad without taking an extended...

As far as "responsible for character deaths," I've got to give a shout-out to the kobold. I've had character deaths in most of the campaigns where I use kobolds, mostly because the players do really stupid things without thinking them through. They handwave them because they consider them a...

4E has dragons spread all across the spectrum of levels. A young white dragon is only a level 3 solo--which means that a 1st-level party of adventurers could take it on as a viable challenge. In the first adventure I ran for my new 4E campaign, I used the wyrmlings from draconomicon, which can...

I can dig a good combat. To me, the violence aspect of the game is fun, as long as it is conceived and executed well. D&D is certainly one of the best ways to slake our lust for violence in entertainment. Still, my favorite part of the game is the exploration angle rather than the bloodshed...

How about a ring of long distance relationships? Some people think that it's a cursed item because it changes your alignment to chaotic lecherous, thus temporarily anulling any relationship if the partners are at least a time zone apart. ;)

While there's alot of temptation for an everfull purse, I'd ultimately have to go with a hat of disguise. If I ever needed the money, I could always make myself look like a waiter and pick up someone's money at a restaurant, a bank teller and grab some cash, or something else nefarious.

The simulationist in me cries out that an intelligent, powerful foe (especially a mastermind type of enemy) would take care to minimize their weaknesses and maximize their advantages. From a purely "common sense" point of view, I can't see a reason why a flying critter with a breath weapon would...