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Eight 20th level players!!! Get an assistant DM.

Fair? I dunno, but that's just how it is. It's up to the DM to make sure everyone has fun, b/c the DM can so easily make his players not have fun. If a player likes hack-n'-slash and the DM doesn't give it to him, that player will not have fun. I think people's play-styles are a real...

Maybe it's just really cold everywhere except in the valley. If there was less atmosphere than Earth, a 4 mile deep canyon might be the only hospitable place. I think there was a Larry Niven novel w/a planet like that. Although, that sounds kinda like the inverse of what you're going for.

Whoa. I'd love to know the name of that short story. I think I read it in elementary school. It was like some goofy tentacle-puma that leeched the potassium out of some astronauts.?

I don't really pay attention to the wealth guidelines for how much treasure, mundane equipment, real estate, livestock, artwork, or whatever else the PCs accumulate. I prefer to control things by limiting the availability of magic items to buy and sell. As long as their equipment is around...

I'd give a 2nd level party 30k, no problem. You have lots of time to slowly get them back in line w/standard wealth as they advance levels- by extra expenses, less treasure or whatever. It's not like a few +1 items would destroy the campaign. Now giving a 15th level level party 8 times the...

Horde of Zombies. 3rd Level Ranger. 1984. AD&D.

It totally depends on your facial expression as you do it. Solemn, determined, and maybe tinged w/regret? Not evil. Gleeful and laughing? Evil.

Undead do not sleep, breathe, or eat. So vampires don't have to drink blood, they just like to. :)

First, you should watch the Mr. Vampire movies if you haven't seen them already. Well, to start off I'd replace material components with paper amulets.

I can predict their actions about 30% of the time. Just enough to lure me into thinking I can guess what's going to happen next and prepare all the wrong notes.

Amulet of mighty fists, eh? Just checked the SRD. I was using the 3.0 DMG and it has no such item. Thanks guys.

If a monster used magic gauntlets would it get a bonus to its claw attack? If not, is there an item that can give bonuses/special abilities to a natural attack? I really want to make a troll w/some flaming claws of speed.

Yeah, but what hat generating method do you use? When I DM, I let the players take avg HP if they roll below average. They're just too fragile otherwise.

I see lots of people complain about 3rd ed. doesn't have any flavor, and that seems weird to me. It's got triple-templated monsters, and tons of prestige classes and class combinations, and interesting fighting styles. The rules may be presented in a more dry, technical manner b/c there's so...

Hey, you could write for Buffy.

I sort of don't believe in originality, so I'm voting 10%. :) However, I never use pre-written adventures.

I played a rotating GMs campaign for a about a year. It worked out ok, but not great. There were ALOT of loose threads, b/c every new GM would ignore the parts of the prior week's game that didn't interest him, so it was hard to keep a coherent storyline going. There was a constant parade of...

Videogames not an art? You've never seen me play Halo. I'm like Michelangelo with a needler.

I use a lot of house rules for character generation/advancement (variant classes, BaseDefBonus, different races, etc.), but not many house rules for the gameplay itself.