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And that's why I don't like the Chaotic Neutral alignment as written. IME, people use the CN alignment as an excuse to basically have their characters just act like crazy psychopaths, and then defend their actions by saying, "Who cares? I'm chaotic neutral. I can do what I want." Chaotic...

I had a similar situation happen in my first or second session (edit: of my current 3.x campaign). Same age-range (roughly) as your players, but most were newbies. After a battle in which the NG sorcerer used sleep on some guards, the CN rogue character walked through the guards and used the...

Well said. I've made that point before in other threads, but as usual, took about 10 times the space to say it so most people probably got bored and didn't read it.

I have Fractal Mapper, which is I think the 3rd main program that people use. I haven't really used it yet. I'd much rather see someone else use it or have someone teach me than try to sit down and figure it out myself.

It's a mix. I'm in 3 groups (soon to be four). Group 1 I DM. It's a mix of a co-worker turned friend turned gamer, her husband, a friend of hers who is now a good friend of mine, his brother, an old friend of mine from high-school (pre-gaming), my wife (her first game ever), an old friend...

It goes back to the age-old fight between "engineering" and "marketing". Engineering-based product design works like this: the engineers (in this case, game designers) come up with a product that they think is cool. They make it, and then they go tell the marketing people, "Here, sell this...

Remind me never to borrow any of your rulebooks.

I've played through one somewhat recently for our Dawnforge game. I think it was an actual Dawnforge adventure called Path of Legend. In it, we were all first-level characters and the first thing we ended up doing was competing in a contest for the city where we were staying (spoiler alert for...

For "story" stuff, I enjoy reading the Scarred Lands Campaign Setting: Ghelspad. For general rules stuff to pull out and read (even if I'm not using them for gaming at the time), I tend to hit up my 1E Player's Handbook, DMG and Unearthed Arcana, the 2E Historical Reference Charlemagne's...

Small world. I started my ad agency career at Foote Cone & Belding here in Los Angeles (not the Orange County office) on Mattel and California Milk Advisory Board (and a bunch of other clients as well). My World of Samoth Campaign started up with a core of players from my old job at Grey...

They did run some as "recently" as 2000. It was a very limited schedule that ran on Major League Soccer, some limited primetime programming on UPN and Fox, and also on ESPN2 (which at the time carried coverage of MgT tournaments). It was a very tightly targeted campaign, but it was very small...

I was thinking this could be a good idea, too. The thing is, though, an infomercial about D&D would really be more about "This is what a role-playing game is." Not that that's bad, but basically it becomes Hasbro/WotC spending the money to educate people and create a market for RPGs. Once...

Ha! I have a tendency to over-explain my job because it's one of those weird types of things that no one in their right mind would actually think people do for a living. I've given up trying to explain it to my mom, so just tells her friends that I do "something with computers." So, sorry if...

Everyone's campaigns sound cool... My World of Samoth Campaign: This is the one I DM. Next Saturday will be our first April session for the game. The Company just breached the Inner Vault of the Banewarrens and fought off "The Betrayed" last session. The sorcerer/cleric in the party just...

Not too long after 3.0E was released I was working at Hasbro's ad agency and, through a series of circumstances, ended up working on Wizards of the Coast's advertising for all of their products. I was in charge of their media planning (Cliff's Notes Version: we are in charge of figuring out who...

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EDIT: Uh, maybe people thought this was an April Fool's Day Joke or something. The short-short version: I'm looking for suggestions of an adventure (free, published, Dungeon, whatever) that would work in a backdrop of two countries at war. Some of the players might actually be from one or...

I game with two already who are lots of fun: 1) Wil Wheaton. His tiefling soulknife in our Dawnforge campaign was a lot of fun, although he did get knocked unconscious quite a bit. In fact, I seem to remember that he went below 0 HP due to an attack by a vicious bloodthirsty tapestry. 2)...

Probably seen it too many times for my own good. It pretty much mimics most ad agencies I've worked at. :)

It's been a long time since it came out, but I think Occult Lore is a pretty useful book, both for actual stuff to use as well as for just reading and ideas. I think this got talked about quite a bit when it first came out, too. I love the book, thought it was a great concept. I was just...