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I know that at one point (prior to MM3 and the July 2010 updates) I had seen several posters suggesting reducing monster hp by some % and then raising average damage by some % (different values for each, IIRC) specifically to speed fights up without reducing challenge. Anyone have a link to...

Not really specific ones, but I want them done right (my subjective value of "right", of course...). I'm more of a sucker for limitations, really. I kind of hate being told I can play "anything I want" - I have tons of character ideas and I really want something with a strong connection to the...

The first group I DM'ed for in 3.0, the fresh 1st-level party was traveling through a swamp and came across the half-eaten carcass of an eight-foot long crocodile. Large, semi-humanoid footprints led away, so they followed them. They came to a small muddy hill, and could hear noises, as from a...

Every indication I've seen is that the VTT is not going to support the monster builder at launch. And the visualizer has been dropped completely, aside from the fact that since they're not going to have any 3d elements all you'd need would be to be able to import images (which also seems like it...

I dunno about DMs in general, but while the vampire class intrigues me and is the one reason I've seen so far for me to even glance at this book, I don't want to have to deal with the type of player who is going to become absolutely welded to this character. Specifically, there is a type of...

http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/278172-desert-athas-du7-dungeon-tiles-review-image-heavy.html I think Deserts of Athas is a decent set, if you ever have need of either sand or water. The 3d tiles in that set are good, could have used some 1-square tall stuff, but it's not...

I think part of the issue may be that not all players / groups are willing to actually come out and say that. Some players have the same "must game" problem that "must GM" GMs have, or else they have been brought to believe that actually telling the GM what they do or do not want is bad. I've...

Oh, I loves me some B2. I learned to DM running it and layed and/or DM'ed it at least a half-dozen times using AD&D (at least a dozen if my memory isn't playing tricks on me). It was awesome and the way to start a campaign for our groups... Looking back over it after all these years, it may not...

In my 3.x group I had two players who where really annoying (but not douchebags) because they where really, really slow and tended to spend a lot of time flipping through books durring their turns. One of them was also really bad about not paying attention or knowing what was going on, and he...

I have been thinking a bit lately about what I would do for my next campaign... I'm currently running Dark Sun and it's going well (I'd say the glass is only about 10% empty, not that I wouldn't like to improve that), and will probably go on for a bit longer, but eventually I'm going to wrap up...

Wow, thanx for all the advice and ideas. I do want to say that while diplomacy was an issue (and I thought I'd be "cheating" if I didn;t mention it), I think the main issue in the example I game was / should have been capability. Now there where some other problems with this group (that I don;t...

I'm fortifying my house so that I'm ready when they come to take away my Essentials. (And/or so that I can survive in the grimdark future after WotC folds and billions of Magic players are released onto the streets.)

That's good to know. =] If my players end up thinking they're cool, too, then it's all good.

That sounds like good advice, but I've had an issue, in the past, with players not being willing to participate in the game until I'm "actually ready to run". I suppose that would just put us into the later time, and there would at least have been the possibility of working something out...

I know the term "Judge" is sometimes used to refer to a GM, but I don't consider myself a Judge. I don't think the DM's job should be solely to be impartial; and if that was all that was needed, you wouldn't really need a DM. Part of the job should be to handle all of the things that can't be...

I would hope that would be the case, but it's going to be in the hands of the swordmage, who regularly goes total defense... I think he feels (possibly rightly, but I'd hope not) that the mass-pull and slow plus possible OA is usually going to be better than many of his other attacks... IMO, in...

Something that I've been thinking about a bit in light of the "I don't like it" thread. For a while now I've been running games with no major restrictions on what's available to players, despite the fact that I would normally prefer not to have certain things crop up in my games. I had limits...

Dungeons & Dragons Class Compendium: Heroes of Sword and Spell Just more Essentials-format (9" x 6" softcover) products in general... I'd love to see themes make their way into core D&D, but I suspect that the fortune cards have stolen that spot. Oh, and if they could give us back our ability...

I'm letting them have it at this point, I'm just not 100% sure how to handle it, specifically how to have the monsters react to it that will be cool and fun and not jerky. I got scolded for not having monsters take many swings at the Shaman's spirit companion after he took a power that IMO said...

So, the players in my 4e game want to pick up some battle standards... Probably the most significant one would be the Battle Standard of the Hungry Blade. They're 13th level now, so a 9th-level item shouldn't be too bad... I'm not completely sure how to deal with the standard, once they plant...