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I typically start at the same two places each time: what does the party need, and what mini can I use to represent it? I'm a very accomidating player, possibly too much so, and it is important to me that our party is well-rounded. Usually, I wait to choose last and try to select a character...

Agreed. I've been practically begging some of my players to try out some hybrid combos, but they just don't seem particularly interested in them. We are in the middle of a bit of a break, so one of them offered to run an interim game. One of the players finally decided to give it a go, and is...

My game started in Sept. 09, we've taken a few month-long breaks here and there (actually, we are currently taking one while one of the players runs us through Gardmore Abbey), and my players are at about level 18. We meet once a week (but, realistically, maybe more like 35 out of 52 weeks)...

Give them skill points in command for free. WEG is flexible enough that you can do this without sacrificing realism (since, frankly, there isn't any in the system to begin with) or breaking the game. It sounds like they're just not interesting in paying for the command skill when they could be...

You just made yourself a new best friend. If you ever make it my way you've got a seat at the gaming table and a cold one at the next Thunder game! That all sounds good to me. I'd play in it right now.

I don't have any qualms with it, just a few comments. I love the relationship between Tiamat and Bahamut you've cooked up. It's much more realistic feeling to me, because in our world three of the major religions (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity) all had a related origin, so there's kind of a...

The part I like the best is the "orcs as slaves" thing. I think that sets up an interesting situation where the PCs may have to free a bunch of orcs and ally with them against evil humans, instead of the other way around. That's cool. How do other races fit into the setting? I assume it's a...

Yeah, the campaign was all about powerful characters doing powerful things. It was a lot of fun. He did die after the rage. But, we had some high level clerics by then, plus a character whose gift was a ring of like, 10 wishes or something. Like I said, it was a stupid high power campaign, but...

My favorite character ever was in our DM's homebrew setting. His name was Rel and he was a Dorokti barbarian king - essentially a half-man/half-ram kind of hybrid who spoke softly and carried a huge lightning-infused greatax. What was great about him was our game at the time was very much...

I'd try one of two different things (or, both!). One - Give them a chance to talk to someone about this vision they received. Maybe someone in the town is a fortune teller or sooth-sayer or whatever, and they have experience with these things. This way they can get a definite answer to their...

We started Gardmore Abbey last night in my group, and so far, I'm loving the Deck of Many Things. Now, we only have one card so far, and that is the Gem card, but the way it has worked in combat so far is great. I love the random aspect of it, and it gives the PCs (which I am one of) a reason to...

I wanted to say something about this point, because it is interesting to me. My group is definitely the kind of group that expects me (as the DM) to provide them interesting challenges and encounters one night a week, and they just have to figure out how to get there. A lot of it is that they...

I've been gaming with the same core group for about 12 years or so now (we've had some changes to the group, but there have been two or three constants the whole time, and everyone who plays in our group is very familiar, if not very friendly, with each other). We've had a few cases of bad DMing...

Well, I wouldn't recommend having every solo be so much highter. Quite the opposite, I just make that exception for dragons. I just want them to feel special. Your points are all completely valid, though. That's why I threw in the caveat at the end that it's all my opinion. :) Dragons should...

Rechan's advice is all very good. Follow those and you should be fine. RE: the dragon: Personally, though I've never run the module you're planning on running, I'd leave the dragon as is. In fact, the only thing you should do to it is add stuff. Never take things away. The way the module is...

I don't know about the rules, to be honest, I just know how I typically adjudicate these matters in my own group. They're probably not RAW, so careful using them. I usually take it case-by-case, and it depends on the intelligence or wisdom scores of the monster in question. Intelligent...

This thread is making me want to use a hydra so badly. My players will know who to blame if they tpk, so heads up everyone.

I ran my players through a dungeon that had a single rust monster wandering around in it. It would occasionally waddle its way through a battle they were in, and it scared them silly every time, but it never aggresively tried to get involved in the fighting. One time the wizard was pushed into...

As a DM, I like to give the PCs a common thread and then tell them where they're going to start before we sit down to play, and it's up to the player how their character got there. And generally, I ask them to stick with similar alignments just to make things easier. For example, in my current...

My longest running character to date was a human shaman. He was loosely based on the Masai warriors from Kenya, so he used a longspear and wore almost no armor. Focused on lightning and thunder powers, and if we ever pick the campaign back up he'll be taking the stormcaller paragon path. I was...