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Three words: Ex Pee Penalty As I stated in another thread, I penalize my player's final XP by -5% per instance of meta-gaming. Therefore, they would take a -5% penalty right off for having a meta-game name, and a further -5% per instance that their name was mentioned "in game." Of course...

Hmmm... That's not really an easy question to answer. I almost exclusively use ad hoc awards. Basically, I figure on a story award, and regardless of how the PC's get there, they get that award, modified by percentages depending on: 1: how well they role-played (roughly +5% per instance) 2...

Fewer Gods, more detail Details, details, details. It's all about the details. One of the ways I brainstorm is not by reading statistics...anyone with a calculator and a reasonable amount of common sense can build an uber-character. I get my ideas by reading stories. The more cultural and...

I'd say that a good 40-50% did not relate to the plot, but I was able to tie about 90% into the plot, or at least as aspects of the primary plot. No, the players didn't always do something that let me make it part of the plot. Rather, they said something, out-of-character. So, like a good DM...

Gritty...but Heroic I like all the things you like. And I like to drive that home to my players. In short, you and I like 1st edition. Thus, a number of revisions on my part, as DM. Bigger XP requirements. The simplest way to drive home how valuable those levels are. Of course, that...

Go "old school" I know how you feel. I'm only 25, but I've been married for 6 years, spent 5 years in the Marines, I have a child on the way, and, well, let's say I'm "gifted." Meaning I'm about 10 times more mature than 90% of Americans my age, especially those in the military. And who play...

Weeellllll.... I'd first like to say that I post replies before reading anyone else's posts, to capture the "flavor" of my reaction. I voted "Other." Why? It's complicated. But take a look at the flavor, or style, of magic that the character wields. As far as game balance goes, the...

A bone of contention... My personal ruling would be "no." Why? The way I veiw magic. Having played Mage: the Ascension, I tend to veiw extra action effects as temporal distortions. If your character has enough time to make an extra attack due to a temporal distortion, then you have enough...

Thank you so much for that site. Now I can go through all the Lone Wolf adventures, and be rip-roarin'-ready for DMing Lone Wolf!

yes! YES!! YESSSS!!!!! I finally get a Lone Wolf RPG! I cut my RPing teeth on Lone Wolf. I loved it. Though I had discovered D&D before Lone Wolf, I constantly found myself trying to make a Kai Lord or a Magician of Dessi. No, I don't know everything about Lone Wolf (I couldn't find all...

Not Burst, but... ...Oversaturated. That's a good way to put it, whoever beat me to it. The big problem? In my opinion? OGL That's right, the Open Gaming License. I found two different d20 Modern Martial Arts handbooks, and they were both essentially the same, just reworded to avoid...

Give him what he wants The basic rule of DMing. Give the players what they want. If this guy wants to be an uber-powerful combat machine, give him uber-powerful combat machines that don't like him. What level is the party? What level is this particular PC? Remember, most people in a D&D...

Thanks all I still haven't gotten through all the posts, but thanks for the outpouring of support and discussion. Sorry I didn't respond sooner. I'm in the military, and things get hectic. Overall, here's the situation: Yes, I KNOW 3.x is not balanced. As a DM, I constantly find myself...

Hi, all. I'm new here, but not new to D&D. I've always loved it, but since the release of 3rd edtion, and especially 3.5, I've encountered one large, glaring problem: Roll Playing. It seems that every DM these days is out to kill the PC's. While I understand the need of a good challenge...

Description More than anything else, your campaign needs atmosphere. I've been playing D&D since the 1st edition days, nearly 18 years, and the one thing I've learned is that your world has to EXIST. You do this by describing the area the pc's are in in depth, the characters, the "business,"...

No I didn't get the map folio for a number of reasons, the simplest being that I always have been and always will be a "self-making" DM. Operating within the constrains of a prepublished adventure always chafes at my creativity. While I have downloaded one or two maps online, I have yet to...