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NOTE: THis is all 3rd Edition specific. The main tactical trick with illusions, if you aren't getting too fancy or reaching for DM interpretation all the time (which is risky anyhow) is that you use them to draw off attacks or create 'no-go' areas on the battlefield. The grey area is when/if...

Thumbs up times a million. This sounds great , Merric! I definitely get to game more often now than I ever had before (not since high school or college.. have I had this much sheer opportunity). My schedule is actually Tuesday nights: I host the drow group at my apartment (we're all drow...

As everyone pointed out, this is just nonsense. However, the 4E PHB is dedicated to Gygax. Which might have been how this idea got started.

I think that high level Tactics block (not even a stats block, if you don't count the dinosaurs..) just burned a hole in my mind!! I ran D&D3.5 plenty- even to the epic levels--- but I guess I never went this far with the arcane stuff. When my friend Joel was running his campaign, he would...

I run skill challenges only *partially* in stealth mode I guess that is to say: it's not in stealth mode. Here's my procedure: 1. I will usually draw a success/failure chart right on the battlemap and leave it there. I let them know what the goal of the challenge is, and that they are in...

Well, I might also be wrong. At DDXP (which is an all-RPGA convention) this year, Baldmangames (which is an independent organization run by Wavester here) mentioned that he had set aside an area for Mike Mearls to run some OD&D. I'm not sure if it took place or not, but the offer was out...

This doesn't sound like an open gaming area. I think (from the announcement) they are saying that if you have a D&D event, you are going to be assigned placement in the Sagamore ballroom as long as there is room, and unless you request otherwise. Although I could be wrong. This year might be...

The Takoma Park (which happens to be local to me) after school D&D program is the longest running program in the area. It's using AD&D1e because it has always used that set of rules and that's the books the library bought. The guys that run it aren't going to change it. That said, it has...

Well, you could just login to the RPGA.com website, set up an event, and download MYRE1-1 to start with. Here's an easy breakdown for you though: There are two tiers: 1st-2nd and 3rd-4th. For the low-tier version of your adventure, you have an experience point budget of 375xp per PC...

There's basically two ways to do it. You can use them in combat (and there is plenty of detail in the DMG and DMG 2 about adding a trap to a combat encounter. But your question is really how to do it during the "investigative" or "explorative" phase of an adventure.. And to those ends...

These are great suggestions! Thank you so much. I especially love the idea of her possibly stumbling around while intoxicated.. Hopefully on the high, wide-windowed open air tower. I may have to give her some kind of push power as well. I wrote a more concise description of what I wanted to do...

Remember that if a character goes down, fails a save, and then gets stood back up.. his death saves don't reset. He still only has two left. If you want to kill PCs, try using a slightly overmatched monster that does ongoing damage. That's how I got killed the last time: ongoing 10 poison...

In my Tuesday night game (which is one group playing through the Drow Campaign), the PCs have intercepted and decoded a treacherous message from a drow priestess of their own household (selling them out to a rival drow house on the verge of a crucial vote to take part in a major sacrifice). It...

I hadn't realized that RPGnet was habitable again. Thanks for the link. I guess I'll have to register.

(Skip to the end, I apparently posted this in the wrong place when it first went up..) Since DDXP some friends and I have been working on this "all Drow" campaign, set in the Forgotten Realms. Actually, we set it up in the Living Forgotten Realms- we are using MyRealms adventure templates to...

I think humor is ok, although everyone getting up and reenacting a scene probably means you have dopey friends. There was a funny scene in the game I was in on Saturday where we finally killed this Shou crimelord (which has a sort of asian theme if you know the forgotten realms) and the DM had...

Hey Rodney, Peter Seckler here. I do a lot of DMing with the Living Realms campaign, DM 4E at least twice weekly (and sometimes more) and I have a habit of changing up published adventures as well as writing my own. I have some suggestions. I've run two of the "official" published...

We haven't had too much of a problem- (This was a first adventure and there were only two combat encounters). In both combat encounters, the drow actually relied much more on Darkfire- nobody used cloud of darkness. Tonight there is a scheduled one-off for the first "real" adventure- or...

Here's another anecdote: The Warhorn site for my (weekly- Thursday evening) local Living Realms meetup has 108 names on it. Not everyone shows up every night, and not everyone even bothers to sign up. At least 2-3 tables (usually 3, sometimes as many as 5)happen every single week. That's a...

We established that the Howling Cabaret was a nightspot frequented by "younger" drow- a lounge of decadence, immorality and debauchery. So both Tebrynn and Dravanna were of an age to have visited there.. Lady Cyntelle would have been a bit older- unless Joe sort of set her up more cougary. But...