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I have a question for everyone here, as there seems to be a lot of very knowledgeable people on this thread. We tend to run campaigns up to 10th-12th level at the most. I guess all of the threads about power creep have steered us away from epic campaigns. For games that typically peak at...

I found a way to both increase combat speed and the feel of chaos by doing 2 things. The first of which may shock some gamers; we play diceless. I use DM Genie to run my games and it has an autoroll feature. I think it's worth mentioning that I've been playing since 1981, and 2 of my players...

That is a VERY interesting approach! It looks very well thought out and seems to be pretty balanced, although I'm admittedly not a mathematician. We're not a number crunching group anyways; the story outweighs the physics and mechanics pretty favorably in our gaming group. That's not to say...

I have been wanting to use DEX for melee attack bonuses for a while now too but haven't because I'm concerned about balance issues. Would switching to DEX gimp the fighter and make rogues more accurate in combat? I know they wouldn't do as much damage as a fighter when they land a blow, but a...

We've found that tracking damage to armor helps to give incentive to wearing the heavier armor. Leather armor can't take much of a beating and it eventually gets pretty expensive to repair it after nearly every encounter that you take damage. I would imagine that tracking armor damage manually...

That's a great idea. After the barbarian camapaign, that player's next solo campaign was with a ranger/druid gestalt. I know it's not an optimized build (I've already been told that on other forums), but our group is much more about cool storylines, not optimal statistics. Since then, all of...

Well, with the player character out of the way, the older brother came back to reclaim his rightful place as chieftan, and was embraced by the tribe because he convinced them that his father banished him because the father was planning to join with a nearby tribe on really bad terms. This was...

I ran a very successful solo campaign with one of my main group players and he ran a barbarian. The premise was that he was the first born son of the tribal chief. His father was assassinated, and he was the prime suspect because he was second in line. He was actually framed by his brother...

What?!? You've never heard of DM Genie? (clutches chest and gives brief soliloquy to Elizabeth....) :lol: I can never make the meetings because they fall on the same night as my gaming sessions. :p I'm a huge fan of DM Genie because it has made gaming so much easier for me. The best...

I didn't want to derail the character sheet thread, so I thought I'd ask in more detail here. My biggest concern about Feudal Lords is that it will be a big departure from standard D20, like Iron Heroes. Don't get me wrong, I love Iron Heroes and in fact I purchased it with the hopes of...

I use DM Genie and my biggest hope and dream is that it will be easy to use the Feudal Lords CS with DM Genie. I know that designing a character sheet won't be too hard, although I'm assuming it will be easier to port over to DM Genie if it's in portrait mode. So far, most of what I've seen in...

The only thing in our house rules that give particular benefit to the rogue is that we use the facing variant in UA, which gives a rear attack +4 instead of +2 (that's now the flanking bonus), and you don't need someone on the opposite side of a creature to gain a rear attack or flanking attack...

I apologize in advance for my ignorance, but I just came across this 2 days ago. I downloaded "Chronicles Of Yrza The Crow", and I REALLY like the flavor of this campaign world! I've been searching all over the web and I can't find any information on a release of an actual Feudal Lords full...

My personal opinion is that DM Genie is the best option out there right now. With DM Genie, I can run every aspect of my game except for mapping encounters. DM Genie does have a way to map encounters, but I prefer to use Maptools and Battlegrounds, which are both VT's. DM Genie is an amazing...

I was thinking the same thing, but didn't want to say it and start a riot. :) Player boredom reveals itself just fine without laptops though. Bored players can find plenty of ways to amuse themselves like read OoG books or magazines, talk or text on their cells, start side conversations with...

I use DM Genie and I will never DM without it. Not only does it have everything at your fingertips, but it makes combat so much faster and smoother. The campaign planner is excellent, and it has many other great features like a customizeable calendar, weather generator and very easy class...

Every mechanical aspect of our game is taken care of on my laptop. I use DM Genie to manage the camapaign and gaming sessions, Maptools and Battlegrounds for mapping encounters (to a HD projector and 8' screen), RPG audiomixer (I also have RPG Soundmixer)for background music and sound effects...

I use DM Genie and it generates a log of every single roll made in the game. Not only combat, but skill checks, saves, and any other rolls made in the game. The nice thing is that it's an editable window so I can also make personal notes within the log itself. We use DM Genie's autoroll...

I had great luck using Farland's Mass Combat program for a recent campaign that involved to feuding lords. The players were stuck in the middle, being childhood friends of one lord but currently working for the other lord. I used the Farland program to keep track of the skirmish while the PC's...

I'm all for anything that makes shields a little more enticing than they are with the base system. Right now, we are just using the popular house rule of all shields being +1 above their normal AC bonus. I was actually thinking of something along the lines of giving shield weilders a bit of a...