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I'm about to give you some very heartless advice... Red flags buddy. RED FLAGS!!! Depression, anxiety, OCD, homeless, jobless.... that's not a healthy hand of cards to play. This is a situation where you can do some good to help, but you can also set yourself up for a lot of trouble. You are...

You were fair. You made things clear up front and they chose to ignore them. In my books you are good. I'd play in your game ;P

Was just making analogy. If you take any of the standard MMORPG's out there and reduce the experience they deliver to the lowest common denominator the games are about killing a bag of experience that drops loot. As you acquire more loot, experience, levels, and power, the bags get bigger and...

I see this as a good example of synergy. Each company excels at something, and by joining forces and maintaining separate focuses, each gets to take the others intellectual property in new directions. CCP is flush with money, 130K (as cited earlier in the thread) subscribers X 14.95/month fee =...

I turn 35 this month, have been married for 11 years, and my son turns 10 in December... so gaming around family obligations has pretty much been my norm for the last decade. Most of the people I game with have kids, in fact the only people who don't are about to get married... It's a bit of a...

I found that an easy way to ease people into domain rules was to give them a few Regency Points for actions done for the common good. Say the PC's clear up a marauding band of Goblins in a particular province... give them a couple regency points to use in that province only to represent the fact...

Ahhh, sweet, sweet Cerilia. To say that I am fond of this setting would be false. IMO it's the best TSR/WoTC published setting to date. For many of the reasons listed above. The details of the setting are deeply meshed together. Things have a reason. There is a defined need for heroes to rise...

One of the few chances I've had to game as a player since the advent of 3.0/3.5 was as a Diviner specialist. I took him thinking that it would be a challenge to keep such a non-combat-focused character alive. At each (spell) level, I took one attack spell, and as many divinations as I could...

The answer really depends on your individual market. Is there a local audience? How big is it? How much product will you need to stock to satisfy their needs? Does anyone else already serve this audience (who's the competition)? When considering any line of product, ask yourself if you have, or...

Drago tipped the ladel back and sucked down as much of the lukewarm water as he could. When he was finished he dropped the ladel back into the recruits bucket and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. It had been a hard day. No, it had been a hard week. “I can't believe Lord Doom...

Did the table have a gloss/finish? Does the scratch go into the wood? Was it painted or stained? Answer that and you can find a way to fix it. If it has a gloss on it, the scratch may not have gone into the wood. If it went into the wood, and had a gloss you can fill the scratch (with...

Here's a zany suggestion that could work... Eliminate the spell casting classes entirely, perhaps allowing players to use the Adept commoner class if you want them to have a simple option. Then, make the spell casting classes into PrC's that fill their void in a smaller span, and thread those...

Blackmoor Vanilla setting, yet not vanilla all the same. Has a good backstory that gives a GM plenty of plot seeds to take a campaign in many directions (one at a time, or all at once!). Civilized enough to justify standard levels of technology and magic that you find in the DMG, and wild enough...

He also has a nice home in the Detroit suburbs, and a hefty pile of money. I'll be a wanna be if those are the results.

Ask the parents if you can invite him. If you ask them first and let them decide if the kid is free to play in the game. Then you are keeping the parents not only informed, but empowered. I'd also suggest being ready to explain the basics of the game if they really don't know. I'm starting a...

What happened to your license for the original install of Windows XP that 'died' and caused you to rely on your friend and get in this quandry? Where are your original install disks? Software key? If you started with a legit copy of WinXP it should be easy to reinstall -- even if you have to...

This streamlining of the system would make for a good way to introduce new players to the game. Run a brief campaign driven by these concepts, and then expand later into a fuller campaign with the entire rule set once the fundamentals are comfortable in the persons mind. I can also see how this...

I agree. There is a large difference between a DM fudging the dice for the sake of a campaign, and a player cheating on their dice rolls to change the outcome of their actions. DM fudging is a sanctioned part of the game and is referenced as a tool just about everywhere gamers gather. In the...

Coffee is foul ichor -- but yeah you noticed :)

I too met a girl this week -- she claims to be my wife and said I should spend less time on the computer. :) Jokes aside, keep plugging man. The ship's still floating and you just need to have a good time with the time you will have together. Don't stress it out too much over the strange things...