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My friend cuts prep time this way: instead of detailing each NPC with a secret, "I just make three free-floating secrets I can give to any NPC as needed." This gave me the idea of assigning an NPC an importance level before starting the design. If this is a "minor" NPC, then no matter how cool...

Maybe I need to play more and DM less so I know what a salad actually tastes like. Especially some homebrew -- reading all these modules must be like going to the salad bar at Le Bernardin to learn how to make a lettuce and tomato thing.

I'm pretty much hopeless on this issue -- I can spend twice as much time prepping a module as the session lasts. I've never taken on a project as open-ended as DMing, where you have to set the scope and every detail you pursue takes time away from the big picture. It's very educational. My...

My friends and I did the RPGA's Delve the last two years, it was a good time, almost broke my brain learning the new character classes. But I think this year I'm looking for something that lasts a little longer, gives you time to learn to work as a team, and incorporates some of the non-combat...

I ended up ripping the maps off the pad, rolling them up and putting them in a $3.50 shipping tube from the post office. (I wish Amazon had just sent my gaming paper in a tube -- they sent two 12x24 boxes taped together, full of peanuts, and the roll still bent a little, which caused a row of...

I am running Castle Whiterock and the maps are very large -- level 3 is about 60 squares by 90 squares (300 feet by 450 feet). So it takes about six easel pads to draw out the maps, and you have to switch between them. (Unless you have room to spread out a five-foot by eight-foot map, and even...

You could maybe e-mail the guy and ask for his data files, then use the line numbers with percentile dice.

I decided to read EnWorld's news feature for the first time today because Morrus twittered "Dungeon Tiles for Ipad / No more D&D books defeats pirates / Lawsuits vs. the Internet www.enworld.org" and the link went to the main page. So I looked at the buttons and saw "Older News, Newsletter...

I think the reason you missed it is that we have one row of colored buttons at the top, then another row of colored buttons for subscribers, and your eye gets drawn away and doesn't register the line of text in the middle as menu options. At least that's what just happened to me when I was...

Did you mean to say, "explore it like a dungeon"? I sure hope it works this way for me. I took Filcher's player map link and wrote down where everything is, so if they ask "where's an armor shop", I know. But I really like the idea of making them ask NPCs for directions. Ask the lantern...

That post by Reveal would have been more useful to me than the entire 2009 scheduling forum... which it was probably posted in, I'm not saying the forum is bad, just that I got no use out of it. I was disappointed in 2009 when a DM ruled that SR didn't apply to Fireball and took a player's word...

Oh, this might be a good place to ask -- is Goodman Games running Dungeon Crawl Classics this year, because I didn't see them in the event listings?

I think there are "cloud computing" type companies that offer the capability to handle your one single spike in demand and then sell the capacity to other customers doing the rest of the year. I would totally be interested in an Enworld game because there were only four or five 3.5 games in...

"Turning damage" is the technical term the SRD uses for "how many HD of undead you can turn." I figured if a bottle of holy water had, say, a 1d6 turning check and did 1d6 HD of turning damage, it could turn an owlbear skeleton 10% of the time always turn a human skeleton if it hit, possibly...

One of my first level PCs was recently caught sneaking around by the skeleton of an owlbear. Fortunately, he'd spent 16% of his starting gold on two 25 gp bottles of holy water. Unfortunately, an owlbear skeleton has 32 hp and holy water does 2d4 damage. WTF? Shouldn't a weapon that costs 25...

Thanks Morrus for fixing this before anybody else had to chime in.

I did this, and now the ranger brings fresh game for Cookie, the battlemage worked her way through battle college in Tarinos One-Thumb's bar, and the paladin who requested a secret girlfriend from royalty is going to be caught in a love triangle between Knight Commander Celan Malenoh and Lady...

Here's something important that's missing: When do you design in "moments of PC awesome," when you look at their character sheets and player types and say "I have got to put in a puzzle for this player, or an encounter where you need to speak Giant, or a monster that's vulnerable to fire?"...

I second this one, I know I'm in the minority with my monitor at 800x600 but I need it that way for visibility issues.