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I do use accents, sometimes, but only where [I think] they belong, and I'll tell you why ('cause I know you were just dying to ask ;) ): One thing that always struck me about Tolkien, even before I read an interview where he explains it, is that the further you get from "home" - i.e., the more...

As for whether it can/should be used in a game, I'd say absolutely (assuming everyone's comfortable with it and enjoys that kind of thing). I've run "encounters" with various "working girls", some brief (roll a Prowess check - yeah, everybody had a good time), some gruesomely detailed (The Tale...

I'm honestly torn between the chance to run a one-shot of something I wouldn't usually get a chance to run, and the chance to play twice in a day. ;) If there's a CoC game going on, I definitely want to get in on that, but I wouldn't mind getting in on some good old fashioned dungeon crawling...

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit (take it as you will): "Fahrenheit supporters claim its previous popularity was due to Fahrenheit's user-friendliness. The unit of measure, being only 5/9 the size of the Celsius degree, permits more precise communication of measurements without...

NO ONE EXPECTS... THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!! (Does pointing out the inherent inconsistency in that post with a Monty Python reference make me evil?)

At the risk of going a bit off-topic... [long, slightly off-topic rant] Y'know, no matter how much folks love to knock 3e as inconsequential and sub-par (and they do), and assume 4e will sweep "lesser roleplaying sheep" along with it (because that's who plays 3e, right?) through sheer...

Honestly, it seems to me it's just leftover 2e squeamishness. "Look, we let them back into the game, but not as a core class, and they're explicitly evil - it says so right here!" Assassins being, of course, one of the central beefs the Satan-scare-mongers had in the eighties, they got nixed...

What he said. Now, about that gnoll...

You got me... All I remember is that there was a storm of advertising for the 2e books around that time, in Marvel comics, especially. Maybe that's it - Spider-man and X-men were huge at the time (Todd McFarlane and Jim Lee hadn't jumped ship to form Image, yet). Just throwing it out there...

Well (when I actually get a chance to play) there's a few must-haves. Straight outta the PHB: Chalk (marking "I was here", among other things) Fishook (aside from the obvious use, there are a million and one things a crafty adventurer can do with this, plus they're cheap as free and weigh...

Haha - Ok, I'll admit it, I was making the "evil DM" face, a little bit. ;) I'm far from a "killer DM", if anything I'm too much of a softy when it comes to the PCs - but sometimes you just gotta mess with'em. And, for what it's worth, one thing they don't have is a ten-foot pole, and the...

I'll restate and clarify: I use and enforce the weather rules. I also require my PCs to eat, and to buy food to do it with. (Unless the cleric wants to spend a lot of time creating food and water.) I emphasize the fact that being an adventurer is hard, dirty, uncomfortable work, and that...

A shining, resplendant example of crap DMing, no less. (I love you, too.) Not stated in the above example, spelled out here for those who need it to be so, was that I had spent fifteen minutes setting the scene, where, while the characters rested up after their last adventure, spent a few...

1992 That's "for real" D&D. I got into Endless Quest books after I read all the Choose Your Own Adventure books out at the time. I knew that they were connected to "Dungeons and Dragons", which (as I understood it) was something involving spells, and divinations, and horrible, nameless...

I tend to give at least every other attack some "flavor", at least a location and how "ouchie" it is. I really only get into long descriptions for big damage. As far as hit locations, I wing it if it's a normal attack, and I have a post-it with a humanoid stick figure and numbers for hit...

In combat (as a DM), I grab a piece of scrap paper, and scribble a quick "grid" on it. Then I have everybody call initiative from the "top" down, and write the names along the left-hand side of the sheet, again from the "top" of the round down. As every person takes a turn, I mark a quick "x"...

I voted more than 90 minutes. By a factor of about eight. Y'see, I'm the "default DM", and I never get to play. So, when I do, it's on my mind from the moment I get up that day. We're talking probably 12 hours where I'm either reflecting on last session, anticipating the next session, making...

Myself, probably 4-6 hours for a session (at least), more if I have time (which I usually do, as most of my prep is while I'm on the phone at work). Most of it's number crunching, which I'm getting much better at, and coming up with filler / diversions, on-the-road encounters, etc. Dungeons...

In the group I run for, I'm out-spent by at least half the players, and I outspend the other half, but there's "extenuating circumstances". As I've mentioned elsewhere, we're all "leftovers" from previous editions, and we range in age from 21 to mid-forties. First off, I'm broke, and I don't...

I like prepping, like it less when I've neglected it and I'm rushing at the last minute, like it much less when I'm at a mental block and don't know where to go next, and love it when *ahem* "a plan comes together." ;) I was at a total "campaign block" the other day, the massive...