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Arg! I was planning a similar campaign (with a Planescape Ysgard feel) about a Norse winter lasting three generations. I was going to reskin it for 4th ed, such as having Rituals be based after the futhark/rune alphabet. But I can't find my notes! I'm afraid my notes were on a 'back of an...

Personally, I would make the firearm be like a Daily magic item, except it would be an Encounter power, then make an Encounter power with scaled damage and whatever status effect that's appropriate.

I'm late to the game for this thread, but I wanted to recommend Nexus Ops, a Wizards of the Coast/Avalon Hill small-squad self-enclosed wargame. It's for two to four players, but works excellent with three and okay with four. It has a sci-fi theme. It has four colors of translucent plastic...

Hey! I played in that campaign! I thought it was a lot of fun until our group roster became unstable, and I had decided that my Mercykiller wouldn't be able to adventure due to belief differences. My two coppers is that I am neutral about the new cosmology (which is good because I can mod...

In my time as a QA guy for a board game company, I've discovered that people learn rules in two different ways: 1) Dude buys a game and reads the rulebook. Sometimes front to back, sometimes skipping. This kind of person (or learning style) works due to the amount of time (and interest) in...

As I get older (and crankier), I feel that it's less the game or its rules and more the DM/GM/referee and the players that makes a quality game. I've played with wonky rulesets that became great games because the players and DMs pitched in, played their hearts out, greeted success with hurrahs...

I'm one of the players that finds Inspiring Warlords underwhelming. At the moment, I've asked my DM to allow me to completely retool the character, swapping out not only a bunch of powers but feats and even a couple of ability scores, so maybe that will fix part of the problem. The other...

I would throw in: History: For an antique item, or perhaps a significant item. If there is a librarian or groundskeeper, then any of the social skills.

Hybrid method I use premade modules to supplement my weaknesses as a DM. For example, I'm crap at dungeon design, so I'd rather use a premade dungeon. I'm also crap at instant throwaway side quests so short Dungeon magazine adventures fill that niche easily. Ideally, stories, plots, and NPCs...

We are playing 'Keep of the Shadowfell'. The DM is a veteran to gaming but new to running games. (This is his first campaign.) We have been finding the fights really easy, except in three instances. One was a kobold ambush, and the other was Irontooth. However, each of the three instances were...

Since minions are a metagaming concept, then I see no problem informing players what are minions and what aren't. As a player, I am weary of my DM pulling the boss-disguised-as-a-minion , or worse, minion-disguised-as-a-boss. Because this means the DM would be banking on me wasting my Encounter...

I'll also add Rifts. I tried one game in which it started off as Palladium Fantasy and in the first session we got transported to Rifts. Even then, as a noob, I mentioned the SDC/MDC rules and the GM ignored us. Until I shot an arrow against a guy with armor and a lasergun. The second time I...

Wererat adventure Dungeon 138 had 'Urban Decay', a 2nd-level 3.5 adventure with wererats. It takes place in the sewers, but it appears to be dungeon-map-light.

For Greyhawk, Incabulos is the god of Plagues, Sickness, Famine, Nightmares, Drought, and Disasters. If I was into shameless self-promotion, I would suggest picking up Dungeon mag #105 for an adventure called 'The Stink' involving a cult of that god. :p

4th set of gods There are the 12 Zodiacs. The Norse (dwarven) The dead Olympians And a fourth that are kind of based on Sumarian/Babylonian which includes Marduk, Tiamat, and dunno, dunno, and dunno. And the goblin's Dark One is a newcomer.

In all my years of running games, I sometimes forget this fact. The players don't give a darn about your NPCs, your plots, even your locations. All they care about getting XP and taking loot. I stopped taking extensive notes in my campaigns years ago 'cause it wasn't worth the cost-benefit...

Bbackstories are a front-loading technique to find out what the player wants to do in the campaign. If the player does not participate, or uses the amnesia backstory then it means one of two things in my games: 1) The player is giving me free reign to design whatever backstory I want. He either...

There might be a problem if the PCs know exactly who the Big Bad is and know all the minor villians. Without some plot turns and twists, they might feel the story to be too linear.

My recent argument I'm hoping my buddy doesn't read this thread. But I really need to vent. I've been running the Savage Tide Adventure Path and for various reasons I wanted to run it Core (ie. unfamiliar with 3.5, been so many years since I played 3.0, etc etc etc). A long-time friend of...

I'd offer my opinion, but that would be impossible, because I have no opinions, only cold, hard facts and by stating them, I would stop all discourse on everything from gaming to politics, thus preventing human civilization from existing as I have already extolled perfect thought. Except that I...