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There is a whole school of DM's that don't award xp for combat. Really, as long as the DM and the players all agree on a method, any way is fine.

If you reduce it far enough, everything comes down to neurons. The muscles you use to lift an object receive neurotransmitters to tell them to start working, and in what way to start working. When you dream, your body is greatly inhibited from making any movements (many studies have shown that...

Chapter II - Jacob's Caravan, cont'd After debating whether to peek inside the cave or not, they decided to be safe and not go in. "I don't know about the rest of you but I want to get some sleep!" exclaimed Errol. Before heading back to Gront, though, the party explored some of the...

If you are looking for more datapoints in my campaign, at least for humans: Levels 1-3: pretty much a dime a dozen. You're not really special on the whole. Some people see potential in you, but then there are lots others if you aren't around. Level 4: considered a "veteren." People begin to...

Wow. I just did the calculations. I think I'm around 10 million square miles (as compared to 3.5m sq miles for the United States), which is split among 8 territories (ie countries). All of the campaign thus far has taken place within a 125 mile radius circle, though they have recently decided...

Chapter II - Jacob's Caravan Chapter II - Jacob's Caravan February 24 The party caught up to Jacob's caravan and handed him the letter of introduction Tera had provided. Jacob looked a little surprised, but welcomed them when he read the letter and introduced his team. Troy was a veteran...

Having run a fairly high stat game, I would say from the DM side: - all players can do most things. Say you set something at a DC20 spot. Even untrained, each player will have a 25% chance of success. The more players you have, the higher you have to make DC's for them to mean anything. -...

Thank you all for those who replied. (Ignore the next three paragraphs if you don't care about the specifics of my campaign) The only people who have this group dream are my players. Well, they recently found out that about 5000 years ago there was another group who also had shared dreams...

While I still haven't decided what I believe, I will note that among my initial thoughts, perhaps the other party members thought it similar to a tornado or hurricane (which also both kill lots of people and damage lots of property, but I don't think anyone would call evil.) If I get other...

I'm running a campaign in which some part of it is spent in a dream state where... many things happen. While I'm currently happy with what I've envisioned and I have a set of rules I've developed, I figure it won't hurt to try and read up on what other people and companies have done regarding...

Sorry, I apologize for my choice of words. Somehow it had slipped my mind that one might have single session plots which don't thread together (which is a perfectly fine way to play), or other methods to play in which there is no overarching plot. Which, I'm not sure why it did since I've...

Chapter I - The Stolen Sculpture, continued By nightfall they reached Mero, a small village. They decided to spend the night in the local inn. Janson, the barkeep and inn owner greeted them as they entered. The inn was small but well-kept. He said, "Take any open table. If you need your horses...

Sure that's fine too, even if there is a nebulous plot out there that maybe even the GM doesn't fully understand yet, but it ties together multiple series of adventures. I would call that an overarching plot. Perhaps I should give a counter-example. The party, while traveling, comes upon a...

I disagree. Some campaigns have no overreaching plot, others do. There was a good thread about this just a couple weeks ago where someone compared campaigns to be "Babylon 5" like vs "Star Trek" like etc. If you are of the camp that there should be no overreaching plot, then feel free to vote...

One word: Ponzi Another idea: get investors to finance something, anything really, under a shell company (persona, whatever) and then use it to hire people (probably your party) to do something at a very inflated value. Then proceed to run that company into the ground, all the while...

I would LOVE to see a copy of this survey. I would be very interested in where my players rate on this scale (and myself for that matter).

I know there is some spectrum on this question, which is why I'm posting this poll. First question I guess would be, does your campaign have some sort of over-arching plot? If no, I guess you can answer 0% to the poll. If so, what percentage of sessions would you prefer be devoted to that...

I'm happy to do either now, as long as I know up front which I'm in. I used to want a game with a story, but now that I'm running a campaign, I've "got my fix" so to speak, and would be happy to do either.

I'm using index cards for anything magical or unique, and it's working great so far. I dealt with this by giving the party a lens of detect magic fairly early. I've never liked the fact that player's had to haul around stuff that they were going to cast detect magic on eventually anyways, it...

Chapter 1 - The Stolen Sculpture Chapter 1 - The Stolen Sculpture February 20 All the students at the university were busy studying when 6 students, Blink, Errol, Kestral, Malit, Vaugner, and Vernon, each received a note: Please report to the Dean of Arts' office at 9:00 AM. The students...