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I might steal this for my future campaigns.

My favorite OSR is Swords & Wizardry, or just use straight B/X if I'm going to do that. I don't get to play those anymore, as my players would revolt if I tried to get them to run a campaign using either of those. They like having a chance to survive to the end of the campaign. S&W, though, is...

Eh. I'll probably thumb through it when it hits the shelves at the FLGS, but I'm not really interested.

For anything above 11th to 13th level or higher, just throw out the rulebook when it comes to balancing encounters. The only thing you need to keep in mind is the encounters per day thing, and putting them in situations where they can't take a short or, especially, a long rest. Dial it up to 11...

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Go for it. Worst they'll do is say no.

I am entirely unenthused.

Yep, this is how I do it. I also pre-roll all the NPCs deception rolls (unless I absolutely have to roll them during a session, when they surprise me with a question), so the players aren't tipped off by my rolling. Because of this, unless the roll assigned to that specific information for that...

My most annoying thing is when they ask you to write something while you're already writing something for them, and then writing another campaign on top of that and running it. Seriously. I've got three big projects I'm working on! One I have to turn in on Monday but its done but I'm afraid that...

I'd say 80 serious 20 not-serious. I've had a few joke adventures during this long-ass campaign, but the majority of the not-serious content has come from the players. For example, one NPC hit on an archer character, and wagered an expensive poison versus a date over a game of darts. So...

My dumb ass writes for the RPG industry. If I can get in, anybody can. Just takes work.

This is how I do it! My player's rogue has both Investigation and Perception as expertise to be the "dungeon guy;" first time I've ever seen anyone take Dungeon Delver, too, since the game came out.

I'm betting an expansion of Forgotten Realms. Karatur, Al-Qadim, Maztica, something like that. I'm not sure that, despite how vocal those who are into Eberron are, there's enough demand for a full splat book--hell, it could be another Magic: The Gathering Crossover...

I made it simple: the spellbook has a "value" of 10% of what it would cost to create that spellbook. This value doesn't affect a wizard in the party using it by taking spells from it, of course, but just if the players decide to try to hock it. My wizard player collects spellbooks from fallen...

I'm thrilled about this, as I'm running a pirate campaign next.

I've been using a modified rule from the PHB: characters can train in a new skill or tool proficiency, or language, by purchasing the services of a trainer for 250 gp and spending 250 days divided by the relevant Ability modifier used with it. In most cases, the tool proficiency and languages...

Frog God Game's Lost Lands campaign setting KS started this week, too!

Statistically, it's no more or less likely than any other class to reach Tier 4. However, I've yet to have a player playing a wizard reach that high.

My current campaign should go to level 20, and then some. The plan was to be level 17 when they reach the turning point, where they'll decide if its them that end the world or not. If they fail, well, they'll have one final fight with a creature that I know for a fact they can't win against; if...

While I've not delved into the Blight as much as I'd like to, I might suggest getting on the Discord that the Frogs have set up through Tenkar's Tavern. That's where the majority of the people that use the newer FGG stuff hang out.

I dunno. Does DEX take too big a piece of the pie? Sure. Do I think it really needs to be fixed? No, not really. I've never seen it in any of my campaigns become an issue, except once, when 5e first came out. It was a DEX battlemaster fighter with a bow, but she had the Sharpshooter feat, and...