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So, I was rehashing an old idea for a campaign today, and was wondering what suggestions, experiences, and ideas my fellow ENWorlders might have to share... The basic premise is this: the PCs are the adult members of a noble house, along with some important people (like the family's...

Well, as it stands, my PCs are pretty good about not waiting to rest until either they're done with an area/situation/whatever (i.e. string of encounters making up part of an adventure), or when somebody is close to dead. Now that healing has entered the picture, my hope is that they'll use it...

Hrm...I just looked at what it would take, and I see what you mean. Oh well...I'll find some other way to tinker with things... Speaking of which, I have another variant I've been thinking about... Ok, so, I've decided to go with the whole healing converts lethal damage to non-lethal thing...

So, I've been thinking; MDT being based on Con is a [Good thing] as far as I'm concerned, but I don't like that the DC to resist it is a fixed 15. So, does anybody have a tried and true way of making the DC scale a bit more? I've thought of various methods (DC10 +1 per 5 pts of damage, DC =...

The world: Outwardly, Yril is a world much like our own, with mountains, oceans, rivers, and forests; unlike Earth, the physical realm of Yril is intimately bound with a parallel realm of magic. (yeah, really not very specific) The Campaign*: The Four Kingdoms of the west—divided by wars and...

How shotgun guages are derived (it's in Grim Tales). Basically, an X-Guage shotgun is a shotgun with a bore just the right size for a 1/X pound lead ball. Now, that's pretty much the definition of 'Arcane Knowledge,' at least in non-gaming terms.

IMC, there's one large region called The Four Kingdoms, and there are three languages between them. In Ennoria (the oldest and most mercantile one of the kingdoms) they speak Ennorian. In Dornlund (only recently independant) they speak Ennorian. In Tyrnia, they speak Tyrnian and a smattering of...

17 last october. Now, of course, the anthropologist in me is delighted by the bell curve that the results have formed.

Both of my parents lived in Boulder, CO, and my mom did a fair bit of backpacking and rock-climbing. Furthermore, my grandfather on my dad's side had a cabin on Mt. Ranier, and worked the mountain as a guide. He is credited with carrying Sherly Temple up on his shoulders. Oh, and the fastest...

To put things simply, you'll need the forge to get the metal into the 1700 degree F range to forge it (the part where it's hot and you hit it with a hammer) [orange glow], the 1500 degree range to harden it (the part where you get it hot then quench it) ['cherry red'], and the 300-600 degree...

I usually do a mix. For example, I figure out the general feel of an area, get (or make) some rough maps, name important things, and figure out what's going on. Then, I stat up the NPCs/monsters that the PCs are likely to face, and then I'm ready. Sometimes I go into a little more detail in my...

I don't think the goats would choose to be ressurected if you killed them, but who knows. Now, if they didn't mind being killed and mostly eaten, and you had a friend that was a truly inept jeweler (i.e. appraise that tiny piece of diamond dust as being worth however many GP it needs to be)...

Since I DM about 85% of the time, I've only had a total of 5 characters over the years; two human rangers (different worlds, same character overall), a human barbarian, a human fighter, and a very short-lived half-elf bard. So, I usually (80% of the time, going by the current data) play a...

Right now, my group has three games going; two that I DM, and one that I'm a player/rules helper with. Game 1 is the Grim Tales/homebrew fantasy game that I spend the most effort on; the way things are arranged, we play it about one weekend a month. Game 2 is a simple D&D 3.5 game that we play...

I think I spent about $100; 3 books, a couple sets of dice, some counters, and a few PDFs. Now, don't get me started on how much I've spent on food for games....it's somewhere around way too much.

This is a very good point, but I don't entirely agree. Personally, I'd say any world where magic has a noticable effect on society would be High-Magic and one where the effect isn't visable would be "where 'normal' should be"-magic...and that makes the default 3.x level of magic higher than it...

Grim Tales is a self-contained* ruleset by Badaxe Games. It's basically D20 Anything Not Too Specific. Along with a simple core set of rules a lot like D20 Modern, it has optional rules for magic, firearms, vehicles, horror/insanity, cybernetic implants, and so on. You can build almost any sort...

Rule 0: We’re all here to have fun. If you’re not having fun, figure out why. If it’s something that you, the DM, or the other players can’t fix, then maybe you should think about whether you really want to play the game. As well, this means you don’t do anything to make the game less fun for...

Well, I thought about the original Star Wars, the LOTR trillogy, et al, but I simply like those because they're the best in the genre, and they possibly have the best stories... But, for Best Movie Ever, I'm going to nominate what I personally think you should be required to watch to graduate...

Ok, here's a human culture I came up with. The Chandaki This ebony-skinned and wavy-haired people lives in the fertile lands of the delta of the Chandak river. Their settlements are carved into the jungle; rich farmlands surrounded by dense forest in all directions. Their settlements are the...