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Can't say what is or isn't canon, as indeed this depends upon the specifics of the gameworld. I can give an example of how I usually deal with this in my own worlds. I generally have several 'tiers' or 'types' of gods: - Creator God(s): often only one or two (male/female), kinda like AO...

Well let me add my voice to the chorus. I am of a mind that, naturally, if a DM is to have any fun, s/he needs to have players who are also having fun. So off the bat, any really asinine behaviour is out of the question in any case. That said, in the end, the DM is god, judge and jury of the...

You can also have the PC come into contact with cults who claim to still worship this same God, but do so in many 'wrong' ways. Still, at the core, they retain some connection with the real deal, the PC just has to shift through their oral histories and ceremonies for those parts that ring true...

Well, I don't really run published adventures. I buy plenty of them, but 'mine' them for ideas only. The actual adventures the players will be running through have little resemblance to any published adventures. Also, I tend to run 'sandbox' style campaigns, so I like to have tons of ready made...

For most of my campaigns, the basic premise is that humans and humanoids are the norm. So other humans, (dark)elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins etc. are the most common enemies. The main fantastic enemies comprose of several 'types' of monsters with a human(oid) basis: were creatures (the cursed...

And there I thought my $100 was a big donation... Anyhoo, a big thanks to _all_ who donated!

Hmm... was doing some thinking. I know it doesnt help now, but for future 'drives', dropping the price down to 1$ seems awfully low to me. This way, you give away way too much cash in my opinion. Doing a sale at 50% off is more then enough to get most people buying but will net you lots more...

The idea of 'customized' EN-world dice sounds pretty spiffy to me too.

Yeah, they reprinted third edition with errata. It was called 3.5..... (duck for cover)

So, when's the PDF of the whole, finished, storyhour to be published?

I work for a large insurance firm where I work at the mergers and acquisitions department and advise the board and managing directors on all sort strategic issues. The salary is in the highest bracket, especially in USD.

To add to the chorus of discontent, I thought the page was a mess. A rambling combination of non-information and uninteresting tidbits of 'news' and irrelevant information on the life of the author. Underwhelming indeed. If this is to be the 'quality' of the closed content of the online...

I copied the post's insights onto word, so I will repost the content. Forgot who was the one who originally wrote it up though, so unfortunately can't give the credits to the original author. Anyhoo, here is the content of the post: MinMaxing as a DM or how to be a lazy DM and still have...

Well... maybe not directly handy tips, but it sounds to me as if the actual DM'ming bit is costing you energy rather then providing it for you. Maybe, the 'stress' of DM'ming is simply not for you, or you need to find a way of DM'ming where you get to do the 'fun stuff' which gives you energy...

There are certainly some cliche's that people haven't touched with the proverbial 10 foot poles for so long, they are probably ready to return... Think of the adventurers getting together at an inn. As to the OP question, as has been debated by others, a reversal of an existing cliche is...

Oh and adding to the concept of a noble house; in general this is everyone with the same last name if you will. So, a noble house may span many nuclear families (through brothers, nephews etc. in a patriarchal system), although of different actual political and financial power per nuclear...

When looking at noble houses, a few things to think about, not necessarily all massively real world 'real', but nonetheless: In general there are four types of noble houses: - political leadership: i.e. the king, dukes, counts etc. who are in political control of the land including other...

My longest session was around 36 hours, although we did have (short) breaks for food, pee etc. It was a weekend long game, where I DM'ed without any prepared notes or scenario, just moving the story along by thinking faster than my players. It was a lot of fun with weird stuff going on during...

My players were always the greedy type. As much loot would be taken as possible. Small coinage was traded up to gems as soon as possible to free up room in the various regular sacks, backpacks or portable holes / bags of holding or whatever other similar magic was available. Treasure left...

Well, on a much, much smalle scale, I would rather be interested in rules concerning henchmen, followers and apprentices then whole world modelling stuff. To be honest, I think that although this board my contain relatively many people interested in running kingdoms, the general population of...