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November 7-9 are the dates for Rock-Con in Rockford, IL. So, I'm voting for the other two dates. Please remember you can vote for more than one date in the poll. For those who might want to visit Rock-Con, I will say that hotel prices are very reasonable in Rockford, and that the convention...

I've heard of something called Klooge that looks like what you might be looking for. Here's a link I've been wanting to give it a try. It does not make maps, but does allow you to take any graphics file and turn it into a background. The cool part is that players will only see what their...

I stand corrected (finally). Thanks to Macbrea and Pagan for clarifying the "rules." That's exactly what I was looking for. It was the end of a long work day when I posted and I just couldn't focus on the rules enough to keep it straight in my head. What can I say, except the new player...

I should add some important details that I purposely left out of the original post. First, the half-orc was invisible. This, I felt, was enough to allow for a simultaneous head-grabbing. I used the grappling rules and gave the half-orc two touch attacks to represent her advantage rather than...

I'm currently allowing my group's clerics to convert their spells to their domain spells rather than healing spells. This, to me, no longer makes it pointless to possess the healing domain, while at the same time allows a cleric to freely "show off" their domain spells. Of course, nothing...

I had a new player in one of my groups last night who was playing D&D for the first time as a 4th-level half-orc barbarian. In combat, she is facing two enemy halfling rogues adjescent to each other and she says she wants to bash their heads together. How would you handle this? My solution...

It's funny to see Ranger change his stance when the tide is changing. I understand exactly why you want to fight hard, Ranger. Because without a voice, it's easy to see something you love start to fall apart. That's exactly what people on the Dungeon side of things have been saying for so...

After reading some of the dreck they've put out, it makes me less inclined to try and filter through all their published material to find the fine piece of work some others seem to claim is in there somewhere. After a few particularly uninspired products, I quit even browsing through Mongoose...

You can also go to your local Office Depot and get one of those big easle pads. Most of the time they have a 1" square grid on the back side. If you need to make maps that you can save, this is a great way to do it. They sell bleed-proof markers with lots of colors for it too. It's...

I'm definitely a "pick and choose" DM when it comes to adding or changing rules. I also have no trouble changing house rules from campaign to campaign to add flavour. 3.5 could have well been a very short book of, "look at these great house rules OPTIONS you could try." Instead, it just kind...

I've participated in 5 separate gaming groups concurrently for several months and enjoyed it very much. But, to DM for more than one game a week would really be a bit much IMO. Some groups really demand more time than others. I had one group that was happy to game for 3-4 hours once a week...

What? Doesn't everybody read Latin? :D

Recently, when creating characters, I chose to naturally age my gnome character by one age category to get the attribute modifiers. I considered going two age categories higher than normal, but the trade-off became much more detrimental. Besides, now he has an excuse to use his hat of disguise...

Elmore is a great artist. He has done a lot of work that includes things besides scantily dressed women. Dragons and landscapes by Elmore make fantasy worlds come alive for me. I much prefer the work that he has done which includes more action, like a chase scene, or when there is some...

I make mine "as large as it needs to be." Probably sounds fuzzy to you, but not all campaigns need maps as broad as Forgotten Realms or Greyhawk. Why overwork yourself? I try to map the local town as much as possible, with preferences for smaller towns for obvious reasons. Not all cities...

I think most Americans are oversensitive to the issue of nudity. Nudity isn't sex. I would strongly object to anything overtly sexual in content in the core books, but nudity, by itself, just doesn't offend me. If it is just topless, then I see no trouble putting it in print. Let us remember...

Profit motive. It's all about selling the new books, and making sure WotC gets your money. At $90 retail for the new books, WotC is trying to give themselves a monetary booster shot until their, "next big thing," comes out. I'm willing to bet that if this was a true conversion guide with...

Short answer: yes. Most of my players work with me on the same shift (weekend evenings), and although I don't mind telling people I play games, go to gaming conventions, play in life-sized Mechwarrior cockpits to blow up my friends, and like to paint minis, what I DO mind is when my players...

It seems that 3.5 facing gets worse as you go up in scale. I will try out the new rules and put them through their paces before I decide which rules I'll be using for certain.

I'm quite certain the DM screen will be included with store copies as well.