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For what it's worth, this is exactly what happened in the very first 4E campaign I played in. The DM basically said, "I don't like the changes, and we all know the grey box, right?" And that's how we rolled...

I love wizards, I play them every chance I get. When you say "good," I assume that you mean optimizing the mechanical qualities as opposed to role-playing or alignment. Here goes... For ability scores, you want a good Intelligence (around 16 or so). If it's point buy, I would advise you against...

So... What happens if someone plays 4E for over a year and gets one of six of their campaign up to 14th level, and all the players get sick and tired of all of 4E's flaws and weren't impressed with its "innovations?" What if the players kept dropping off because they got tired of slogging...

I can't speak to the maturity of your players or how they're going to react to what you've got in mind for the future of the game. But I can tell you one thing for certain. Far, far too many obnoxious players try to use "I was in character" as an excuse to justify being a jerk, either...

Well, to fit your theme... For a 2nd-level party, strong contenders for the undead include skeletons and skeletal champions. Since you've got two divine casters and a paladin, I'd advise you include some undead that they can easily blast or control with a channel energy or two--do something to...

I call sheer ass-hattery on that one. I hope that you've found a good group since then. That guy sounds like someone that I wouldn't game with either. Y'know, you've got me thinking... One of the things that really gets under my skin (as either player or DM) is the rampant discrimination that...

I'm running a regular Pathfinder game these days. Since we're not playing this upcoming weekend, I used some of my regularly scheduled prep time tonight to whip up a quick reference sheet for information and tables that aren't on the GM screen, but I constantly find myself flipping through the...

We've been saying this one around my game table for two weeks now. It helps to have a player named Steve in the group. :)

I bet that F.A.T.A.L. has some sort of procedure for determining these sorts of things.

At my game this past weekend, I had players with laptops (about half of my players bring laptops). When the party encountered a gelatinous cube, one of the players immediately pulled up the stats for it on his laptop. Fortunately, most of my players are awesome and immediately called him out on...

I hate the DM that views the group as "my group," or the campaign as "my campaign," as opposed to a collective effort. I despise the heavy-handed and arbitrary style of play (favoring the DM's sense of narrative, or simply his perceived authority as DM) that inevitably results. I abhor the...

Full disclosure: I know that it's fake. It's supposed to be "funny ha ha," and I did have a laugh at it. It became less and less funny as I saw more of the people that I've had the misfortune to play with over the years. YouTube - ‪Francis is Upset about his 4ed Dungeons and Dragons Game‬‏...

First off... Welcome to Pathfinder! :) I'd seriously advise you against trying to start with a stat of 18. It's arguably because of my personal tastes... But I've never liked having a character that was horrible or mediocre at most things and insanely good in one. Pathfinder Society still caps...

Have you considered using an iconic party from D&D settings of the 1E era? Perhaps the Heroes of the Lance (Caramon, Raistlin, Goldmoon, et cetera) or maybe the lineup from the Icewind Dale Trilogy (Drizzt, Wulfgar, Catti-brie, et cetera)? They were actually designed to be iconic adventuring...

From a certain business perspective, it makes a lot of sense. The 800-pound gorilla has stepped out of the room, so it stands to reason that someone might want to meet demand. My question is whether or not the demand will be all that great. I think they're doing it right in making a limited...

I don't know if this will help you or not, but it works for me. Whenever I'm on a diet, I don't try to make entire categories of food off-limits--eventually my willpower breaks and I gorge on what I'm trying to avoid. Rather than trying to avoid eating something, I'll make it conditional. For...

For what it's worth, I have a similar opinion. It's all well and good to detail a setting, but one of the reasons that I avoid using the popular settings is because of "continuity experts." I usually avoid Forgotten Realms and Star Wars games because players in those settings want to dash off...

Yep, this is spot-on. Among the gamers I know, this is why they dig the core "points of light" setting for 4E. I know that there were many sad pandas in my neck of the woods when the Nentir Vale Gazetteer was cancelled. Speaking of which... I'd personally be very interested in seeing a...

Strangely enough, I've got something of a soft spot for Cleric's Challenge from 2E. What I like about it is that a different party of adventurers instigated the big problem that the characters face. The first bit is a bit of an archetypical dungeon crawl to deal with an undead uprising, but...

Generally speaking, I prefer a commercial setting to have as much detail as I need to run it right out of the box. It doesn't have to be encyclopedic, but it has to be comprehensive. Usually, I'll only run published adventures in a given setting rather than developing my own adventures set...