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  1. just__al

    Gaming and your Significant Other

    My wife plays in the weekly game that I DM about 1/3rd of the time (we rotate between 3 different DM's) She also plays in the once a month game that I DM (World's Largest Dungeon) She does not play in the twice a month game I play on Wednesday nights but instead stays home to "chill"...
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    3.5 Stat Blocks Kill my creativity

    YOINK!!!
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    3.5 Stat Blocks Kill my creativity

    I'm pretty happy with DM Genie, I just wish it was easier to use with the newer material.
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    Should Players Engage With The Rules?

    All I ask is that you know how your character works. That's all. If you pickup anything else, that's great. I'm trying to get into the habit of informing players that they will provoke a couple of times and then let it go from there, but I'm also starting to always tell players when someone...
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    Player Tactics

    Actually, I enjoy having concrete rules for the things that my players have always been trying to do since basic D&D. Knocking people into a firepit, smashing an opponents bow, etc.. There are all rules now for those types of things. My house rules used to be about 15 pages long, now it's...
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    Fellow DM, How do you handle Hit Point at each new level ?

    Characters have to roll at least 30% of the value of the die they are rolling. So for d4 and d6, ones count as twos For d8 and d10, ones and twos count as threes and for d12, ones, twos, and threes count as fours Nudges the average up a little bit but still random without overly hosing people
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    How Does Your Party Divide Treasure?

    From a metagame level, I'm a fan of need before greed. Some of my characters laugh at the idea and can't believe they got saddled with such a horrible player. They want the treasure divided by whatever their alignment thinks is appropriate.
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    You ever argue XP with a DM?

    I never argue XP except for one point. I hate DM's that think the Big Noise at the table = best roleplayer. You do not have to be some over-the-top spotlight hog to be a good roleplayer. Personally, I feel good roleplay is it's own reward and when I DM the extent to which I reward it is to...
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    World's Largest Dungeon in actual play [Spoilers!]

    I've been using the player's maps that have been posted. I don't have the SKILLZ that others have in making them so I hope they get completed by the time I need them. The lantern archons give them to the group once they've been in a reigon for a day or two.
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    what is the rarest class race combo?

    Wow! Seriously, wow. I'm almost hoping my cleric dies in our current game just so I can play a dwarven drunken master. It's going to happen sooner or later, but that just sounds like the coolest thing ever. Seriously... Hmmm.. or maybe an NPC in the 8th level game I'm running when it's my...
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    World's Largest Dungeon in actual play [Spoilers!]

    Bummer, I hate extra work. Well, I'd just like to say "good luck, we're all counting on you"
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    World's Largest Dungeon in actual play [Spoilers!]

    You should go to http://www.james.neetersoft.com/wld/wld.htm and use the "email me" link, I'm sure he'd love to host the maps.
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    World's Largest Dungeon in actual play [Spoilers!]

    You can actually save PDF's as jpegs if you have adobe stanard or pro. It helped me out a lot because I bought counter collection gold and it only had one darkmantle counter. I saved the page with the darkmantle as a jpeg and then brought it into photoshop where I was able to copy/paste a...
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    When geek meets geek

    Ok, fair enough, but it's the OGL that makes 3rd edition cool. It's all the adventures and suppliments that make it cool. Want a pirate campaign with special pirate feats and classes and settings? Somebody out there wrote it, WoTC probably wouldn't have wrote it. I'm actually running the...
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    Lack of sleep

    Ok, I know the effects of sleeping in Medium or Heavy Armor, but what are the effects of staying awake all night. I cannot find a rule for it in the PHB or DMG. I'm sure I'm just missing it.
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    When geek meets geek

    A buddy of mine is joining our saturday game after being out of D&D since about 1992. I was explaining why 3rd edition is so cool and the biggest selling point is the Open Gaming License which has enabled so many fine publishers to make suppliments that wizards doesn't have the time or...
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    World's Largest Dungeon in actual play [Spoilers!]

    Is there any chance of seeing more of the "players" maps? I'd really like to have them for my players. The lantern archons will be giving them to the group from time to time.
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    World's Largest Dungeon in actual play [Spoilers!]

    We had our first session saturday, we started creating characters at noon and we stopped playing at 11:30 with only about a 45 minute break to order & retrieve sushi takeout. Group consists of Human Cleric of Boccob with the knowlege and magic domains Hafling rogue Human Warmage Human fighter...
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    Wizards Gaining Two Spells When Gaining a Level - How do you do it?

    I picture it as how I finally got trig. I woke up one morning and it all started making sense to me. Besides, while I'm all for vermisillitude, I'm willing to gloss over some of it for the sake of enjoyable game play. Rogues don't have to take a week off to go study anatmony charts to gain...
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    Feat suggestions for low-level clerics?

    Nah, skill focus (Concentration)
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