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I've been going through the same issue lately- I want some random tables to help with procedural generation for some of my dungeon projects, and as we speak I am casually hunting around for some examples of encounters in the feywild along a rover, swampy morass, and primeval forest type places...

These are all original adventures but they were constructed using the MyRealms guidelines and take place in the Forgotten Realms (all of these are situated along the Fire River, east of Raven's Bluff..). So, they are Living Realms if people want them to be! But they are also just regular D&D...

All of these are Pregens or bring your own 1st-4th level character. Leave a comment here or email me! All adventures are original creations! They are also all linked, so if you want to play the same character and accumulate XP, that's cool too. Secret Shrine of Silvanus Port of Call: Dragon...

Agreeing with everything eyebeams just said there. I guess as a side note, I game now more than I ever did in my entire life, possibly because I've figured out that online fandom has so little to do with gaming.

Hand-drawn whenever possible. But I also have been using a random generator at Gozzy's. Here's some hand-drawn profile type maps.

Link to this post and get back to me in 8 years and we'll see which one of us is right, then. Does that seem fair?

I feel bad saying this. But what if 4th Edition does satisfy and has an enthusiastic and appreciative audience? (it does) What if it already draws upon the best aspects of it's predecessors and leaves the other stuff behind because that other stuff isn't all that great? (opinions here, but...

Well, I guess you need to link to the exact quote where Wizards told you that you were "a nerd for liking gnomes". My guess is it never happened. You may have interpreted it that way, but that was your issue to deal with. This is probably even more controversial: Buying old D&D PDFs didn't...

Insulting and untrue.

It isn't a matter of what we want, it's a matter of how it is. It isn't as if we all got together and elected for things to be one way or the other. It just turned out that way because that's where the interest went. It doesn't help that other designers look at the most dominant game and think...

Well, I'm agreeing with Hobo. The only people that say Wizards has bad customer service or public relations are people who aren't customers in the first place. They have incredible public relations. They have amazing customer service. They literally have a help desk phone number if you have a...

And the Time of Troubles, the Avatar Wars, etc? Massive upheavals have always been part of Faerun's history. At one point, Faerun was ruled by the Sarrukh! When Forgotten Realms Adventures came out, they eliminated entire classes (assassins) and races (half-orcs) and killed off a whole slew of...

Well, that wouldn't be accurate because I do like the Realms. But the point is, you shouldn't have to go look for some obscure region to make your own. If there's a region you are interested in, it should all be fair game. And the PCs should be the star of the show! Thus the 4e version is...

Eh, whatever. As far as I'm concerned, the 4e Forgotten Realms are the best version of the setting that has ever been published. It's the only version since the 2e Forgotten Realms Adventures book (Jeff Grubb) that I felt comfortable creating my own stuff in because every previous version I've...

Regardless of how people game, here's some DMing tips that I think are applicable: 1. Try to get your DMing turn done as quickly as possible. When people complain about chess-match Dming, often it's really just how long the DM spends staring at the table before he does anything. 2. Be...

The corpse of a mega-gargantuan Sand-turtle surfaces partially from a windswept dune. Inside the dessicated and hollowed-out body, a group of thieves have established a sort of lair. Amongst their plunder is the encased psionic brain (like a Brain in a Jar, but bigger, and more crazier, and...

Pretty cool! I will link you to my DMing blog.

Same as the RPGA- any system would likely benefit from an organized and social approach. Any. Ok, so if this is Encounters, same deal: use some of that time up front to try and get the players to talk about their characters a bit, and improvise some situations for them..before you get into the...

Just to be clear: Are you running D&D Encounters or are you trying to create a home game that has some of the benefits and features of D&D Encounters (drop in players and 2 hour time limit, etc)... Here's my tip: the battle in a typical D&D encounter rarely takes up even half the time. So you...

Feat Tax was definitely around in 3rd edition-- I would say it was directly related to qualifications for certain prestige classes. For example, I had a character that was trying to qualify for Shadowdancer, and I needed to get Perform:Dance (whcih I hadn't picked back at 1st level..what?)...