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  1. Ashrum the Black

    Gencon buzz seems much less than last year

    Ouch. I read through about 85% of that mess. I'm a little stunned about the amount of venom that was thrown around in there. I guess I just never new there was so much anger that floated around on the ENnies. Live and learn I guess. -Ashrum
  2. Ashrum the Black

    About ... your table

    We play in my finished basement at a 6'x3' folding conference style table. I set up card tables around it to hold books and notes for the player to use as we play. We have my couch along one side of the table to sit on and us two nice rolling office chairs as well as a couple of padded folding...
  3. Ashrum the Black

    You can leave now...

    Beautiful work alsiho2 as usual. BTW, what happened to your web site you were working on? -Ashrum
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    A Steam-Powered Tale of Tragedy and Triumph

    I'd also be interested in what your "gripes" as you call them are. I love the book and have a lot of great ideas perculating in my head to run, but sometimes it takes another persons perspective to show us the cliff edge we're racing torwards. Perhaps what you consider faults I don't, but...
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    A Steam-Powered Tale of Tragedy and Triumph

    Actually, what it seems you've been longing for wasn't the IKCG. Think of that as the players handbook for the Iron Kingdoms, lots of intersting information on character classes and how they run in the Iron Kingdoms, but not a ton of fluff, just enough to spark the imagination and get things...
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    Shadows of the Last War - Merric's thoughts (no spoilers)

    Okay, understand that I haven't run the adventure yet and this is all form one read through of the module. I thought the premise of the adventure was fine and it seemed like it would work best as a continuation of the adventure from the main book as MerricB has already stated. I will nit pick...
  7. Ashrum the Black

    How many products nominated for an ENnie do you own/are you familiar with?

    Hmm, I own maybe half a dozen of the products, and half flipped through a few more. I've got to say that this year many of the things on the list never seemed to make it on mine. I'd attribute this to my stcking with pubishers that I know for good quaility and editing. When I spend even ten...
  8. Ashrum the Black

    How many levels in your dungeon?

    Lordy. I can't remember the last time I made a "dungeon". Not one that has multiple levels and is chuck full of creepy crawlies anyway. Most of the dungeons I do these days are buildings or ruins with a level or two. Throw in some encounters around the building and put in some politics and we...
  9. Ashrum the Black

    Any module/sourcebook made you go "Drop everything I want to run this right now?"

    The Witchfire Trilogy from Privateer Press. That one was the highpoint of the last campaign. -Ashrum
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    What turns you off in a purchased adventure?

    Things I dislike in published modules are: 1) Modules that are "light" on the details. An example is that in the course of the module the players visit a city and almost nothing is mentioned of the city in the module. I buy modules to help me run adventures when I'm low on time. Not giving me...
  11. Ashrum the Black

    Campaign Themes

    Hm, I voted for some of the above. Mine is a home brew incorporating elements of high fantasy, high magic, with other elements such as chaostech and others. There's plent of things I don't allow so I won't call it the great melting pot as everything has a place, just there isn't a place for...
  12. Ashrum the Black

    Lets go exploring! A poll about adventures

    I prefer the old style modules. By this, I mean a module that details an adventure, gives some ideas on how to draw the characters in and then jumps in. I tend not to like the old dungeon ecologies that made no since whatsoever. I tend to not like mini campaigns since I prefer to work the...
  13. Ashrum the Black

    What are you going to do with d20 Future?

    Star Frontiers. Definitly
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    Thanks Eric Noah

    Thank you Eric for concienivng, and providing us with a wonderful place to discuss our favorite hobby. Thanks to Eric's Grandma as well for her wonderful rules of netiquette. That being said I'd also like to say a big thanks to Morrus for picking up the torch of EN World and running with it...
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    Gaming Group Anxieties

    Well, I'd have to say that after two months if things haven't gotten any better then you should talk to him. Let him know that you're getting the "something's not right" vibe and ask him if there's anything wrong. If it's a bad first impression then with concious effort on both your parts it...
  16. Ashrum the Black

    Huge printing error in my Eberron!

    I think in that case those stores lose the "F" and end up being LGS's. Never ran into that scenario myself though. -Ashrum
  17. Ashrum the Black

    Hypothetical Spiderman 3 villain

    Yes indeed, he is mentioned briefly in the first movie while Peter is in J.J.'s office. -Ashrum
  18. Ashrum the Black

    Your gaming experience: are expectations matching the reality?

    I have high expectations, and am usually disappointed because my players have differing expectations. :( I'm hoping to change things tonight, but we'll just have to see if I can bring my expectations down, and theirs up a little to form a happy medium.
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    Should girls be allowed to play fighter characters

    sniff ... sniff ... is that troll I smell? ;)
  20. Ashrum the Black

    Help me progress my current plot (My player's stay out!)

    Hmm, okay, the orc army is on the march and moving to capture more cities. They've spent the last year fortifying their captured cities and enslaving the population to feed their war machine. They've set their sites on another city, this one is a politcal and enconomic rival of the characters...
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