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Castlemourn, authored mainly by Ed Greenwood. Basic premise in the campaign is that something very terrible happened 300 years ago that devastated much of the world set for Castlemorn.... except that no one knows what it was. There is evidence of the terrible event - ruins, etc. But it is...

Our group uses them frequently when very low level, infrequently at mid-levels and virtually never at higher levels.

Well, no .... not cool but that is because I have character sheets so old that they are starting to yellow. Not the same thing in the OP but yellow characters sheets reminds me that I need a use a better quality of paper. :lol:

My apologies....actually is it my swiss cheese memory. I am really bad for dates, a real sore point with my wife on occasions (just ask her :heh: ) I am guilty of the sin of messing up the year of birth of my kids on more than on occasion, for which I must do much penance.... I would have...

Malagaunt - a middle age human (obvious arcanist) summoner with piercing, haunting black eyes. Those that meet his gaze are shaken (Will DC 20) and will recount that the eyes seem soulless yet seem to have a dark, sinister, intelligence (like the Abyss looking through at you) at the same time...

My FR campaign has gone on since 1987 with the original characters now the rulers of a new republic in the Vilhon Reach. Almost every campaign has started in this region and retired characters have their lives and interact with the current PCs. A typical campaign (based upon a set of PCs)...

Brutal.... It got taken behind the wood shed.

Start small and work up. For example: a small skirmish sized action that PCs are involved in or circumstance has them present. Friendly side is holding its own when the small unit commander is killed. Then things start going south rapidly as, devoid of leadership and inspiration, the...

I had a D&D 3.0 wizard character that had 10 of them. 1 x +1 to caster level 2 x absorb spells of 8th level or lower 7 x spelling storing My character crafted them during the campaign. Of course, it would be more expensive in D&D 3.5 since the price of ioun stones (particularly the spell...

War of the Burning Sky and it is available right on this site. Shackled City (hardcover available), Age of Worms and The Savage Tide are available from Paizo The Drow War series from Mongoose. I have all of them and any one of them would make a great campaign.

Russ, Rather than waiting until things get dire then coming onto the boards and making yourself feel like some panhandler soliciting money outside the mall (I know you hate asking everytime this happens), may I suggest that quarterly or semi-annual fund raising drives be done, regardless if...

Well, if one is going to vent on these boards, then be prepared to receive the good and bad commentary the vent will elicit. If one doesn't want the criticism / advice, then don't post .... and since he chose to post....

Seriously... Trying to be original and innovative is alot of hard work, particularly if you want to design your own world. Unless you got the time and the ambition to work on it, it is going to come across as lacking the spark you seek. And since time is a factor you say you don't have in...

Depends on the campaign. I have run both types of parties in my long years of DMing and rounded characters can falter when the needs for focused specialists is required. Kinda the 'jack of all trades and master of none' syndrome. Just finished the Age of Worms AP recently and a rounded...

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Yes, I frequently have the PCs do negotiations on behalf of some minor power like a baron, head of a church and the occasional king. Sometimes it turns out quite well. Sometime it turns out like Bruce Willis's character in the Fifth Element 'negotiating' with the mangalores on the bridge of...

In the real world, in the medieval period, certain scholars would have a map of the know world. However, the average Joe (99.9% of the population at that time) wouldn't have a clue what the known world encompassed or even looked like on a map. The average Joe's 'world' was probably 100 miles...

I thought about the question and then a surprising revelatlion struck me. I've been playing (not just DMing) since 1974 and the last character that I had that died dated back to a campaign in 1981-1982. At that time, I declined being raised, as I recall. Don't remember the reason why.

I've used this concept a few times and it has worked great on each occasion. It is important to fill in the blanks to a degree, particularly if you start with a bang like a combat. For example Do narrative of the setup of the location and other information to orient the players. Then ...

If the problem is a questionable and improbable outcome (ie. like a 5th level character hitting AC 35), I ask for a breakdown of all the modifers and what the roll was. No one in my 32 years of playing has ever taken issue with me asking them how they came up with the result in question. As...