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I drink very rarely. I've never been drunk and don't plan to be. I find the notion of forcibly altering my body chemistry unsettling, and I don't need to be drunk to have a good time and be silly. However, I would probably drink a little more except for two things. One, I don't like the...

We do this in both of our groups. The morning session will be trading three months my D&D game, and three months another GMs MM game. The night game alternates between a few months of one DM's D&D and the games of various other people in the group who run shorter, more contained games. It...

Monsters that appear to be strange mixes of different normal beasties for the area. Or critters that are extra large and freaky looking.

Well, sentience is based on intelligence. So maybe you can get some cows etc, and cast fox's cunning on them. A 6 int is enough to be sentient. It might not be as tasty as that 18 int wizard in the tower, but it should do.

I too often feel some frustration as a player when opponents have to roll ones or twos to fail my saves. What's even more frustrating than that flame strike finally getting though, but once the high level slots are gone, what do you do with the rest? That flaming sphere with the painfully low...

Don't be afraid to do a little bit of railroading. While forcing the players to take the hook is something to avoid in a longer game, for a one shot, everybody knows that there's only one adventure, and that's the one they're going on. So make the hook fast and blatant. Taking time to root...

Depending on how your city is run and how big it is, an embassy, and an office of humanoid affairs. What about an orphanage for all those kids left when parents died in the war?

Assuming that the times I play extra makes up for the times that we miss, I'm guessing around 600.

When I start campaigns, one of the things I have my players do during character creation is come up with a reason why the party got together and has stayed together. They are to assume that they've been together for some time. Although this makes things a little awkward when the players don't...

I have a 12 month year. Each month has four weeks of seven days and a precise lunar calendar, so each week begins on Moonday with the new phase of the moon (half, full, half or new) and ends on Sunday. Holidays I'm still working on. I have a handful. The solstices, the equinoxes, samhain and...

Cheaters make me angry. As a DM, I would feel seriously disrespected. I don't look out too heavily for cheating, but I have nothing to worry about in the game I'm running. My players are all honest. If I DID suspect someone I'd probably watch them, but I don't think I'd confront them (I'm...

Echoing Draconomicon! I love that book to bits. Dragons for every need of dragony goodness, plus a bunch of nifty other bits of information on things like breeding, physiology and social structure. There's even a short draconic glossary and a lesson on draconic grammar...not that i've ever...

IMC, cure potions are light yellowish green. Like highlighter green, or the green of lifebars in video games, or green glowsticks. glowsticks is probably the most accurate. They also glow, ever so faintly, and taste like kool-aide

In my opinion, this would count as granting mercy. If her crimes have warrented a death sentance no ifs ands or buts, then all he'd really be able to do would prolong the inevitable anyway. He might not be able to spare her life, but he CAN make her death as painless as possible. So tell her...

I try to nip this sort of thing in the bud at character creation by instructing the players to choose characters that can function in the group. Perhaps your dm can instruct this player that when he makes his next character, he needs to create someone with a background and personality that...

Though I eventually retreated back to my battlemat, last summer I did try making some tiles. step one, in photoshop, make a 1 inch grid on a letter-paper-sized file. print onto cardstock. step two, cut into various sizes of rooms and hallways. I did everything from 1x1 to 8x10. step...

Heh heh. Actually, as soon as I finished posting, I looked back at that suggestion and thought. "Holy Moly! This is exactly the sort of thing I need for the lawful-good-destroyer-of-evil type in my game! I had an idea and I didn't even know it!" I've been thinking about what to throw at this...

Like someone else said, if just being around someone who was evil counted as associating, no one would ever get redeemed. The paladin isn't hanging out with the priestess because she likes her, or thinks she'd be a good person to have in the party. She's more like her jailor. And I don't...

As far as the original question goes, I think it just depends on how you define each term, which of course will vary from person to person. This is how *I* feel about these terms. Min-maxer. Eh. Go for it. To me, this is a person who fiddles with the minutae of his character to get the most...

I encourage players to give me copies of their sheets, but I don't require it. If I did, I'd be forever wanting more and more copies as levels were leveled, and perpetually forgetful people would forget them. I look over sheets now and again for any glaring errors, but I don't go through it...