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I would allow it if there were good rules to support overcasting. I feel it gives spellcasting a sense of power AND of danger. Wield great power and bear the concequences (magic powers exhausted, backlash, miscasts, ...) The basic spellcasting classes in DnD are a bit bland in my view. There is...

So far I'm pretty amazed by the stats. Contrary to what I expected, the guide and the arbiter come out on top. I expected to see a lot more 'GODS'. Another thing I learned from your posts is that a lot of DM's seem to go with the flow, dm'ing one way then another as the occasion demands...

Re: Re: How do you see the roll of DM/GM? BAD PLAYER! Please send 1250XP back to your DM! ;)

I've used both methods with a twist: since all my players wer first-timers, I had promised them that they could "rebuild" their characters before we would start the major campaign. So after playing 3 scenarios (one being the Sunless Citadel) ... They had to retain race/class/equipment/money. I...

This nicely sums up the 2 main golden rules I've learned about playing P&P RPG's: 1: HAVE FUN (in the hugest letters possible) 2: People are what makes rule number one: a good party, a good DM, understanding, respect and coöperation!!!

According to my friendly neighbourhood retailer shipping has something to do with it also. From what I heard, taxes have become pretty steep since the hey-days of 2e boxes. Wether this is only a concern for overseas shipping or is a problem inside the states as well, I don't know.

Very nice way of putting it Eric, and actualy another level between letting them fend for themselves and fudging and stuff. It's like a slowmotion or even a freeze-frame in a movie scene. Appart from giving your players a chance to review the scene, it hints to them there is something they've...

When I got introduced to the older books (2e and 1e) there were two things I found rather strange. I generaly found the older material to be more verbal, the latter more abstract. I guess that's WOTC applying the "rules creating skills" they developed with stuff like M:TG and Pokemon. (btw: I...

OK, nice metafor. But what kind of a director are you? Do you help you're cast out or do you leave them to their own devices? Do you shout "... and now there's a big hairy monster behind you, you're scared and you should use the flamethrower..." or do you shout "action" and let the actors ad-lib

This is a topic I've come accross in many a discussion about our hobby, so time for a poll I guess. Personaly, I go for option one. I see myself as the benevolent guide who's 'job' it is to present a story and 'help' the players through it. This means I will fudge rolls or addapt creature, NPC/...

One thing I often do is make an on the spot ruling, take a note and look stuff up for the next session. Mind, you're players need to agree, if you have a bunch that realy want to know that rule on the spot... I did notice that (for me at least) this leads to a lot of house rules. Guess as long...

Though I've never dealt with psionics either as player or DM, I kinda like the idea from the DM's standpoint. You can give an NPC a definative edge, or maybe even use psionics as an easy explanation when the group starts to ask you how this NPC knows so much For PC's, I also like the concept...

Don't touch the magic mirror Not realy a party wreck, but what I did was pretty stupid! Imagine a second level wood elf rogue/wizard... Imagine a wizards tower, open door, no guards, ... Imagine this woodelf being very curious... Imagine.... <GET ON WITH IT> well, I did enter the wizards...

I'll never TPK out of principle. I consider it my duty to give my players a fair chance and a helping hand in their quests. I don't mind pushing them to the limit, but I've been in one too many TPK's as a player and as a players there's only one thing I hate: having a character killed because...

very basicly: - gives me a sounding board to tell the tales of my games both as player and as DM - gives me a wealth of ideas - and gives me a place to unwind after a crazy day at work reading about not only my favourite hobby but (eg in this forum) also about some off beat stuff Actualy...

Here's two incidents I came across and how I handeled them: The central character of the group, a Paladin, had aquired a mace with some magic runes on the wooden haft. I had miscalculated the powers of the mace so that he allmost never missed and he dealt enormous amounts of damage, killing...

Maybe not helpfull as answer to your question, but I just wanted the tell y'all what happend when I ran the module. My players ran into the troll very early into the module (even before finding any of the kobolds and goblins) and decided to fiddle a bit with it as I wanted to avoid player death...

Agreeing with a bunch of names already mentioned (my fav's being Eddings, Jordan, Williams) Some names I didn't see mentioned yet: Ellis Peters - The Cadfael stories James Clavel - Shogun Eiji Yoshikawa - Musashi various - The L5R novels (I liked the idea of a series of novels telling the...

On average I play in three or four campaigns, but some have rather odd frequencies of play: Right now, I play in an Ars Magica campaign every other week, a Warhammer campaign once a month and I DM a DnD3E campaign whenever the guys have time off (4 out of 5 players are still in school and often...

Guido is derived from the Old Germanic Wido or Widu which means forrest dweller