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I agree with most of the points above. Here's my addition: In most RPGs, you have the party of PCs, all of whom are of roughly equal importance. Some may have the spotlight in one bit of the adventure, some in other bits, but overall, no one stands out. In most successful fiction (novels...

Babies = good! happy for you!

I think your druid will find himself in the roll of healer sooner or later, whether he wants to be or not. At the very least, though, pool as much of the party resources as you can spare for healing wands. The druid can use them without giving up any spell slots, and hopefully someone else...

I make my own reincarnation tables for my games. They include all the races on my race list, a couple of monster races and intelligent animals. There's one chance for animal, and if rolled the player rolls on another table for which animal. I chose a handful of animals that I thought wouldn't...

I like the complicated song as well. I think the big thing is that it's CATCHY. Darn catchy. the kind of song that it's easy to belt out in one's car. Ska8er Boy always makes me extra happy because it reminds me of a couple of characters in a story/rpg I was really into at the time, and...

I love the Skater Boy song by Avril Lavene(sp). My true guilty confession is that I'm severely out of the loop on popular music. I recognize the names of big name bands, and some songs are familiar if I hear then on the radio (though I don't often listen to the radio), but I can't match the...

Or, find yourself a nice roleplaying book that you want, get another junk book of the same size, then pull off the cover. you can keep the pages from the rpg book without destroying it (and rig another cover thingie to protect the pages), and use the paper from an old dictionary or something to...

I restrict player options for a number of reasons. One, I've found that I can DM better if the range of what I can expect from PCs is simpler, and I own the books. Two, I'm trying to make my homebrew a living, cohesive place, and for me, that means fewer options. And three, I've got insane...

Another bit. If after two sets the player is not happy with either set, they have the final option of scrapping both and ME rolling them a set. It matters not how bad it is, if it's legal, they have to keep it. I think it's only happened once or twice. We also do a thing where if there are...

IIRC, there are rules for magic duels in the DMG II. I don't remember them offhand, but they seemed pretty sensible.

Rolling all the way. Being lucky is fun, and being unlucky can still lead to good characters. I once rolled a set that I thought would mean just being careless and then rolling up a new character, but Ohg the fighter turned out to be one of my most fun characters ever. We roll thusly: 4d6...

I'm not suggesting that having a character determined randomly couldn't be a fun way to build a PC. I think it could be a blast. but then, I think a lot of different types of games could be fun. I'd happily play in games where I was expected to have an in-depth backstory, or just come up with...

A-hem. I thought you were a roleplayer: "How is it roleplaying to have my character determined by random ROLLS?" Point out that having your spells and familiar chosen for you hurts your character development personality wise. Point out that there are all kinds of things that the PC has no...

Yay, something in Michigan! Anybody have any idea how a fantasy artist would do there? I'm looking for more cons to sell my arts and chocolate d20s.

Remember that small gestures can go a long way. I would in fact not suggest doing oratory or comedy for your perform: those things are things that actually rely on speaking, and thus cant be faked. But you don't have to be able to sing to hum a few bars and mime playing a lute. Or choose...

"Arm lopping damage" Before I joined the group, 6d6 was once rolled for damage on having somebody's arm cut off. The result...7. This DM is famous for rolling poorly for damage, especially on d6s. Now we call arm-lopping whenever very low damage is rolled. "Mole!" When someone points out...

1. I forget things. Rules, effects my character is under, what just happened.... 2. It takes me a long time to decide what to do, or which spells to prepare. 3. Sometimes I make pretty tactically unsound decisions. 4. Even when I put thought into a character's personality, they all wind...

I lament the loss of good children's television. When I was a kid, we had Voltron, Thundercats and Silverhawks, as well as classics like Loony Toons. The Simpsons was new and exciting. For little kids, there was Sesame Street and the Polka Dot Door (I think the latter may have been on the...

Hooray for success! 40lbs is something to be proud of. I'm trying to go from 212 to 150. 25 days in and I'm down...3lbs. It's not much, but it's a start. Baby steps.

Everybody is at fault. And since all the reasons have been pointed out most eloquently above, I share with you one of the rules of the Monkeydragon's Table: "Thou shalt remember that good gaming must come before good roleplaying. Thou shalt not allow thy fun to come at the expense of any...