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I've got a Washburn N2 which I like a lot because it's got the slimmest of necks and is superlight. And I realy the naturel oil finish. My acoustic guitar is made in japan (Suzuki, no relation to the cars) something between a medium and a dreadnought. BUT: I'm not realy getting round to playing...

The maps! I love maps, especialy old ones with more than just roads and houses and woods. Adventure and fantasy movies were always great because often there was a map to follow. And when I came accross LOTR in a shop that sold dried herbs and wooden furniture (absolute true !!) I immediatly...

Excelent point !! You have an excelent point there. Even though some DM's regard themselves as God, the players definetly have a say, it's their game also. In my group there's at least 2 players who do as much prepping as I do. They take their RPG seriously and do everything to make it a...

From what I read here and in other threads, it seems to me that though there is some discussion on the subject (and it does happen, cheating that is) cheating is not all that common. I guess the majority of RPG'ers understand what the game is about, and as such don't cheat. And based on that...

Another thing I have noticed myself is that this same competitive marketplace and the computer RPG (mainly because of the possibility to cheat and the ease with which you restore a savegame if an encounter goes foul) has twisted kids perception of gaming. I was asked to demo DnD3E at a small...

[not realy about cheating] direct player to player competition may spell bad news To avoid direct player to player competition, I'll allways start a campaign with the group already established. One of the DM's I play under generaly starts a campaign with all characters unaware of the other...

After reading the thread with tips on catching cheating and posting my own poll on how DM's deal with cheating, I started thinking and came up with this: In the days (long past) I played MTG there was a whole category of cheating that actualy focused on the other player. Example: in MTG (as in...

I never realy had a problem with cheating so far (either my players don't or they're very good at it ;) ) But I wondered how people (DM's that is) deal with cheating players. If I should ever catch a player cheating, if it's obvious (like when everybody arround the table notices he cheated)...

To keep things simple I (as DM) keep the "official" character sheet. And since I'm working with strictly core rules characters, I'll let my players update their sheets by means of the Chargen demo. They send me their new characters and I check these. Then I'll convert them to PDF and send them...

Over the years I've been noticing something I find rather disturbing. Xmas is no longer a peoples feast. Its commerce. Shops and TV-stations and radio and ... go to a lot of trouble to decorate and promote and stuff. So we should feel all xmas'y I guess. But when I send out my xmas cards (this...

My 2 cents: If you like Roleplaying more than Rollplaying: Go back to the books you read, the movies and TV shows you've seen. At some point you'll be thinking "Yeah, I want to play a character like Legolas/Connan/Zorro/Tarzan/Gandalf/Harry Potter/....." and base your character on that. If...

My favourites are two campaigns that actualy were in between campaigns, a couple of sessions to blow off some steam before continueing the main campaign. I played in a Dark Matter'ish campaign (using a simplified Top Secret rules set) that lasted 2 sessions and was based in the Profecy films...

I've been going over my collection of RPG books and I've found I have three categories of books: a) those I use regularly (for me that means DnD3E) b) those I bought for background content (often books on other systems, eg Pendragon for all the knightly information or Sengoku for Japanese...

This is how I handle XP: For XP I use a spreadsheet that simply contains a column per player. Then I'll go back over the session (based on memory/notes) and type a row for every event I think is worth XP. For encounters I use the DnD3e rules (based in CR and EL and dividing XP among the...

The DM could award such feats depending on how the player plays his character (the actions dictate the evolution of a character, not the players desire) My WFRP GM uses this aproach. As an example: My templar of the Fiery Heart (the WFRP paladin) had a very low balistic skill (obviously the...

For me there's two things I use to get into character. I have a different set of dice for each character I use a different accent for each character. Especialy the accent aids a lot in getting in character. (on one occasion I dropped the accent. I was playing a wild-elf rogue/sorcerer and...

My WFRP GM is also blessed with a wife that plays RPG's. When they are bored they'll call arround to try and get a game going (any game) and if they can't locate anybody, they'll very happily start creating characters together just for the fun of it. (you probably should know that character...

As posted before the GURPS material is very extensive. Another source you might want to check for a Japanese background is Sengoku. Sengoku (Gold Rush Games)

I would prefer my players not knowing each others stats because I can't imagine a bunch of total strangers ending up in an Inn and swapping stats and skills "Hi I'm Dork the rogue and I have 5 ranks in pick lock" Especialy classes like rogues, I feel they would be very sparse at best with info...

I have a trio of favourites and they turn out to be all by the same artist, Brom. My absolute favourite is Brom's wild elf. It forever changed my perception of this race, and apart from some small details was the first ever character I played in DnD. I also like Brom's take on the dark elf...