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Well, not the game itself, but in a professional capacity. My tenure with Esdevium Games has come to an end, and with it my time as the voice of D&D, WFRP, and many other terrific games here in the UK. I've really come to love the great community of gamers here in the UK, and I'm sad to be...

Howdy, Durnscarniepals, and welcome to EN World. This is a great place for the sort of input you're looking for, so i hope you'll visit often! I happen to have a bit of experience with d20 Modern, and I'll second pawsplay's analysis. In my own games, I've found it's a pretty good rule of thumb...

Another thing I like about Twitter, as a gamer, is that it changes the blogosphere paradigm a bit. I follow a lot of gaming blogs, but even so they're just a drop in the bucket. There's just too much out there for anyone with an iota of a life to keep up on. But nowadays, if someone out there...

Tweetdeck's ability to rationalize your Twitter feed is almost as important, to my experience anyway, as the entire Twitter concept. By sorting your feed into discreet conversations, it turns a mass of white noise into useful, followable threads. I can't recommend enough, especially to anyone...

Sure. I was just trying to draw a bit of contrast. And guilty as charged, unfortunately. . . .

A lot of people are saying "prepare," and I definitely agree. But as a one-word bit of advice, it can be overwhelming--how do you "prepare" for every possibility? My advice is to narrow the concept a bit. If you think about it, when winging it you probably stumble over some things more than...

Like the OP, it took me a while to understand the "point" of Twitter--or more accurately, to understand how it could be useful to me. In the end, I pretty much concur with everything the OP says (even down to his choice of applications--Tweetdeck makes it easy to turn Twitter into a series of...

In my general experience over 30 years of gaming, the vast majority of players will go down fighting without even giving surrender a significant amount of thought. I don't know exactly why this is. I think it's some combination of A) an assumption that bad guys are always there to be defeated...

My favourite category of monsters, frankly. But then, I tend to go for a touch of Cthulhuesque horror in my gaming.

I have a shiny new one-pound coin for the good gamer who stats the bootpiddle plopstep donkeyhorse. (You'll have to come to Hampshire to collect.)

Hey Merric, if you do get your game back up, shoot us a tweet when your session is rolling. It's tough to get a game going again, but that first new session is the biggest hurdle. Best of luck!

We used to refer to it as "E. Dangerous Journeys."

Just two of many tools available for maintaining tension and excitement in an adventure or campaign.

I've had a few campaigns struggle through lean times lasting two or three months. I've learned to keep things alive in peoples' minds under such circumstances (I'm in the game business, as are many of the people I game or have gamed with, and the summer time with all its con travel can really...

Wargames Heaven is still open, but I don't know how much D&D they're doing. They aren't currently running D&D Encounters. They have the space, though, and I'm sure they'd be willing to listen if any enterprising GM volunteered to help them out with it!

I don't agree with the OP's definition of the term "railroad." What he calls railroading I would call sensible story-based GMing (and I'm all in favour of it, as player or GM). I tend to define railroading a bit more narrowly, and more in line with its disparaging use. Which takes me to the...

In a typical high-fantasy D&D campaign, I avoid it like the plague. I have no problem with recurring NPCs (in fact I like them for campaign continuity reasons), and I like to give them some development, but they are distinctly part of the background. I've never included one in a regular...

Hi, all, sorry for jumping in a little late, but I just didn't have time to plow through the entire thread yesterday. I just wanted to reiterate a bit of what Scott said. Working at, and leaving, WotC is a real bundle of contradictions. On the one hand, WotC truly provides one of the greatest...

This is true. Just as true as saying D&D is a game for munchkin power gamers who like to spend more time min/maxing their 41st-level paladins than engaging in roleplaying.

I agree. Even played strictly as written, it's not that big a deal. And if you don't like that aspect of the game, just skip it. I do. ArM can be played in the completely conventional manner; that's how I play it. As written, the stumbling block is the big power disparity between magi and other...