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Wow... so many games... so I'll choose the last one. Knowing my prefrence for heroic and "good" aligned PC's my players choose at the start of our current game 3 1/2 years ago to all travel to Shadowdale indivdually to try to become accepted by the oraganization known as the Harpers. In...

Horn Blowing I'm not an immodest jerk, the title of the thread asks the question, and I'll answer it. Of all the things in my life that I do, the one thing I know that I do extremely well is to run role playing games. It's been my central hobby since I was nine years old (I'm 36), and I've...

Picky Pikcy :p You obviously knew what I meant to print... and I doubt anyone here woud believe that I think a player IS their character. Though it would be an interesting line of psychological babble to pursue that line of thought and argue that they are in fact the same... not going there...

IMO, yes and no Crothian. Being Exalted doesn't take a Neutral Good player and turn him into a Lawful Good player in disguise. I have an exalted character in my game and unfortunately he has my BoED right now so I'm unable to quote exact passages from the book. An exalted character is the...

The problem I see (particularly in the magic rich environment of the Realms) is that a mix-up like this is extremely unlikely. With powerful divinations available and the well known nature of the nation you are discussing... But then hey, these are YOUR Forgotten Realms... :)

WOW! I typed my response to the original poster after only reading to the post of Gizmo's that I quoted. After reading the whole thread, I find it reaffirming that there are a lot of really great people on Enworld!

Gizmo, I've read a lot of your replies in threads on this board, and I like you man, you are okay in my book. I've never called myself a geek because I've always found the term vaguely insulting. Oh, I fit the stereotype I suppose. I've played RPG's for 26 years; I worked in the computer field...

Buy him a copy of "Game Mastering Secrets Second Edition" by Aaron Rosenberg (Greyghost Publishers). Another good publication is Robin's Laws by Robin Law (published by SJG), although this second manual is more targeted for an audience of advanced GM's. The first book very clearly and in well...

All these ideas are great! The beholder can have the monicle on one of his lesser eyes, keeping the central eye closed to allow the normal magical defenses to be in place, then opening the central eye to cancel any magical effects that he detects and revealing the illusions. ;) Thanks for all...

I've thought about this and had to discard it. You see there is a small secret faction of Cyricists still in Darkhold, the last Zhentarim outpost they still have any presence in. It was a plot of the Cyriscists that caused the fight between the Battlehall and the Dark Fane. A cabal of priests...

We run a serious game, comical things rarely happen in game for the sake of comic relief. That being said we are all long time friends (one of these guy's I've been running in games for over 26 years) and we all have moments where we are giggling over our dice for many reasons. One player is...

The real reason they will be going throught he Underdark is because I want them to, I want to run an Underdark adventure. They have the option to do whatever they want naturally, I'm not a railroadig GM, but I've engineered rumors about how difficult it is to apporach the Fortress throughout the...

I have the first Zhentil Keep boxed set, there were two? Magedoom?

I haven't anything near your level of skill with the crunch. When I was younger I had the "core" (if you will) three books for AD&D basically memorized. Thats certainly not the case now. Heck, it's taken me this long to stop mixing 1st and 2nd ed rules in my head with the 3.0 rules, and it still...

These are great ideas. Few hitches, the Giants are used as thugs by the commanders of Darkhold and are garrisoned in an enlarged natural cave about half a mile from the Stronghold itself. They are close to a fortified wall that closes the only gap in the young and rocky Sunset Mountains that an...

I just finished a session last night where the PC's settled a fight between the Battlehall (a temple of Tempus) and the Dark Fane (a temple of Bane) through combat. The Baneites were defeated (but not disastrously so), and their Devil allies were returned to their infernal demesnes. The Temple...

No, I haven't actually. I think what I'm going to do is to take my post about the infiltration of Darkhold and start a new thread on it to try to drag in the Forgotten Realms enthusiats on the boards. I'm really needing ideas on this because right now I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed with it all.

This is the antithesis of my experiences Crothian. How exactly do you make the high level games easy to prepare for? I find that the various NPC generators out there work fine for low to mid level games, however for upper level games they are inadequate because in order to create a challenging...

I'm finding that I don't in particular. I've been running my current 3.0 D&D game now for 3 and a half years and the group has reached 13th level. We meet twice a month for 6 hour sessions and I have intentionally retarded their growth in order to prolong the lower level game. I've run many...

I've spend my morning writing in all the errata to my 3.0 books. What was the purpose behind changing the range of the touch spells to 0 ft rather than just touch?