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As he said, the first round gets different adventures to keep cheating from taking place (I remember a guy blabbing about his experience and mentioning 'lots of trap' and getting 'turned to stone'. there wasn't a single trap nor stoning monster in our 1st round). In our first round adventure...

Don't get me wrong, I had a good time, mostly because I played in all those scheduled events with friends. But you are right, I think the side games are the way to go.

The adventure only works if you throw logic out of the window. The ladder past the trapdoor is literally hundreds of feet high. In ANY OTHER D&D adventure, traversing a 300 foot high ladder while being chased by monsters and spell casters is a sure recipe for suicde. That the module is...

For the open the pregens are voted on by the community before GenCon. The two years I have been in it they've been pretty bad, and in fact every judge I talked to at GenCon remarked at how bad the pregens were. For example, the divine caster, a favored soul, had no healing spell above 1st...

Both last year and this year I got quite a bit of info off ENWorld, though I didn't specifically see the FAQ you refer to.

I have played D&D on and off for over 20 years. Ironically I grew up in Indianapolis when Gen-Con was in Wisconsin. Now I live in New York, Gen Con is in Indy. Until last year I had never been to a Con of significant size. I decided to combine a trip home to visit family with a brief stop at...

Sorry to take a break from the 4e discussion: I have signed up for the Xendrick game 'Shargon's Rage' this afternoon at Gen Con. I want to make a proper 7th level character for this but unfortunately due to most of Wizard's website being down since the 4e announcement (wow, that gives me a lot...

I vote for 3.0/3.5 for this reason. In old-school D&D there were tons of save-or-die or even 'do something stupid and you die' events. But most of these didn't start coming in until the characters were at least mid-level, and often not until 9th or so. And it was a serious pain to get up to...

Several of the Savage Tide Adventure Path modules in recent issues of dungeon have a pirate theme. They could make good source material.

Levelled NPCs with poorly chosen equipment or abilities can dramatically alter effective CR. Also, as a DM quickly chosing an opponent out of a published supplement, sometimes going by CR can have disasterous results, either for the party or for game balance. I ran into a particularly vexing...

I was thinking of trying a Star Wars event or two. But I can't figure out which events use the new rules. I've seen 'Revised Edition', D20 and D6.

Last year I went to GenCon for the first time. I only had very limited time so I just played in the D&D open with a friend. This year I intend to go for most of the 4 days. But looking on the event registration site, nearly everything is full. Even of the events that are open I have little...

One of my PC's wants to hire bards to spread tales of his deeds far and wide throughout the city. Can anyone point me to any guidelines of how much this might cost and what the effects might be?

I find it funny, though typical, that a thread that states clearly 'I don't want an alterntive system to 3.5' is full of responses giving just that. Anyway, as many have indicated, it IS possible to run 3.5 with limited prep commitment. I'd like to also add another thing I have come across...

I think one of the most underrated elements of using published modules, especially something like Dungeon, is just stealing the parts you like. Use a dungeon, keep it mostly the same but change the evil cult to one that fits your game, create a new villian to replace the stock one in the...

I have now played 3-4 sessions using my tablet. Each session I've improved the usage, to the point where last session I went completely paperless. It was awesome. The keys? First, PDFs of every rulebook that I use. Second, an MS Access database for my custom NPCs. Third, MS OneNote. The...

Once you start translating names, they are pretty much all stupid, or literal. One thing that was unique about Glenn Cook's Black Company books was that all the cities, at least in the first few books, had very literal, simple names (i.e. Charm, Horse, Spit, Rust). I'm sure his thinking was...

This has scrolled off the homepage and I'm not sure how to find it. I am interested in what other details were posted. What sort of software upgrades?

I have used OneNote for quite some time and am looking forward to taking advantage of it with my new Tablet, which I received today. So far so good. My first gaming session with it will be on Friday.

Where is all this magical software coming from? I hear a lot of talk about the possibility of character generators, map editors, campaign planners, etc, that Wizards will offer via their DI, that these are what will differentiate it from just being Dragon and Dungeon on the web. But Wizards...