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I have recently started using this generator: http://www.stanford.edu/~marke/npc.html It not only gives you prepared spells, but also gear, and the feat and stat choices are pretty sensible (there is a very very small chance your wizard will get power attack at random).

(sarcasm) But you have to understand: Its ELVEN, it must be better than any other weapon! (/sarcasm)

People who question this should take a look at Everquest. Any bigger raid stands and falls with leadeship - or more correct, the ability of the players to follow orders. Back when I played it I was constantly amazed how many problems people had just doing what they were told to - or not doing...

Yes. Although I prefer it if I can build the adventure with some time to prepare, and not right at the table - I improvise enough as it is with the sidetrecks my players stumble into, or decide to pursue.

From a DM's perspective, I ask the players what they want to do before I prepare the next adventure - or to tell me in advance if they want to leave the current region. I also check if they would like to travel to a region before detailing it.

With the small size of my gaming groups (2-3 players), I often run NPCs that are party members. I take care not to overshadow anyone though - or at least don't overshadow any PC where it counts for the PC. Closest I come to such NPCs is in my Shadowrun campaign, where the group leader is an...

They could give dwarves an "instakill any monster ability", racial boni to all stats and social skills, and immunity to death by any means and I still would not play one.

I ordered the book as soon as it was available. Any sourcebook thing that is not just composed of more feats, skills, prestige classes and new elven subraces, all geared to make for leaner, meaner killing machines, is worth a look in my opinion. (I noticed that I don't use all that stuff...

It is still in development, but so far I am quite taken with this new NPC-generator I disovered today: http://www.stanford.edu/~marke/npc.html It gives out less randomized stats for the NPC classes and adds some (most often sensible) gear and feats. With other random generators I often...

I would rephrase it as "I prefer to spend my preparation time on other things than wracking my brain over how to deal with a host of high-level spells in the next adventure." I have no doubt that I could deal with all those high-level spells, but it would be a chore for me, not fun. I spend 4...

That is one of my main peeves as well.

For me, one of the main differences between wargaming and roleplaying is that when wargaming you don't play a PC, you move a figure. You don't think what your PC would do, you do the best move you can think of. When roleplaying, you think not like a player, but a character. All IMHO, of course...

Since I customize my settings, or at least the regions I place my campaigns in, heavily, I look for a setting that offers a great variety of regions/themes/possibilities, then fill/modify the particular regions/cultures with sourcebooks of every kind as well as history sources and hoembrew...

My issue is in the mail according to cyberdungeon.com (I am not in the UK, but in Switzerland, but close enough for oversea shipping, I guess.)

I was planning to post about the same question (looking for some arabian translations)... thank you all. :)

I handle it the same way as a DM. As a player, I always ask the DM if something looks like it would work - I don't ask "How far away is the window?" "20 feet" "Ok, I tumble to the window and jump out.", I ask "Does it look like my PC could reach the window tumbling and jump out?" so that the DM...

I banned both Wish and Time Stop as PC/NPC spells (as well as a load of other spells).

Took the words out of my mouth. PirateCat, if WotC really had such a stupid idea I expect them to make humans the uber-race - since the outnumber any other PHB race by far.

A friend and occasional DM has used the Speaker in Dreams module. It was an enjoyable adventure, but I guess that is because he "cut down 90% of the combats, altered the setting and NPCs, added new NPCs, and basically just used the general idea in the module and a few encounters and NPCs". He...

I usually try to give the players as much of the information their PCs would know as soon as possible, especially when they create a PC native to the setting. Nowadays I compile the information in a file, with images, and mail it them. During play I deal out additional informations, if needed.