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The Bluff check is your friend. GM: He's making a motion to cast a spell. Player: I disrupt him. GM: Ok, now he is really casting the spell. OR GM: You see a man in robes getting ready to cast a spell. Player: I run over and grapple him. GM: Ok the monk in robes turns and kicks...

Here is my review I was immediatly turned off objectification of women on the front cover and never bothered to try and get because of cover art. Other than that it was fine.

That's tough. I've had this happen a couple times during my gaming career. I agree, if you aren't having fun, its a bad GM (for you at least). It really depends on the person. Some people are open to suggestion and want to be better GM's. Some are convinced that they already know...

Idea: Since you cant storm the walls, try to draw out their army. March your army up to the edge of the no mans land, taunt them, and then march back into the brush. Make them come out and meet you, don't let them gun you down from behind the walls. Question, since the sword has not been...

Soft scout the city first Does anyone ever cross the no mans land? Supplies? Reinforcements? Scouts? Are there any caves under the city? How far would it be to dig into a building on the edge of the city? Can the bard turn a large group of you invisible? At 80 yards per group of guards...

We don't in my game I never felt it was realistic to have people mark off their arrows like they are paint balls that are consumed in the using. An arrow is a pretty solid piece of equipment and usually isn't destroyed in the using. So, I don't make my players mark off their arrows when they...

1) Relax. Every GM, even the good ones, started out as a newbie GM at some point. We all blew it at one point or another and we all learned from our mistakes. Run the game, have fun and the do the best you can, the rest will take care of it self as you learn. 2) Describe things in a way...

It's Bruce Cordell, what did you expect?

One of the topics that has been the most discussed around our gaming group campfire is the use of social skills in the game. One of the ideas that has come up is that there is great discrepancies about how the DC's are set across all campaigns. So, it is hard to know how usefull a social...

One word Insta-Kobold-o-matic.

Then why not just play a normal multiclass character. IE a 5th level Gestault with a +5 is exactly the same as a multiclass character with 5 levels in each class. While this works for rogue and fighter types, it doesn't work for multiclassing spell casters. A 10th level mage is way more...

It's taken me a while to get my head around the changes at Dungeon. I'm just used to it being a resourse for adventures. I have to admit I think this focus on changing it to the GM magazine vs focusing on adventures hasn't really grabbed my interest. However, since that isn't the focus of...

Story awards I've been doing exclusively story awards for the past 15 years. I use EL as a way to determine what would be a challenge for the party, but I reward the players for advancing the story not fighting the monsters. Sneaking past a monster or avoiding a nasty combat with skillfull...

Ask the question In situations like this where the party has been actively searching every room and then a battle disrupts their pattern, I don't think it hurts to give them a little prod on the search. You don't have to say much, just a subtle, "Do you search the cavern?" It gets them back...

I heard it was published by a second publisher from the grassy gnoll... no wait that might have been something else.

In 2e In 2E multiclassing LA worked out to about +2. A fifth level character would be about a 3/3 character. However the Gestault characters are just a little better than the 2E multiclassing. 2E you took the average hitpoints instead of best of both worlds like 3E. So, if I was going to...

Agreed to a point. In customer service perception is reality. Maybe he could work on not posting in such a way that sounds like you're engauging in the normal back and forth flaming that happens on a message board. When you say things like "You don't understand, <b>Unfortunatly</b>" and "lack...

Nice attitude. Not only did you misrepresent/misunderstand what he said, you acted like a jerk to him. That is the second time this thread you've come out and slammed people. I can't understand how a representative of a company can think it is good business to slam people, even when they are...

Send a message Tell them that it won't be an either or situation it will be a both or none situation. If they can't work out their differences, you have no interest in having the group decide who is right. In your mind, they are both gone unless they figure out how to get along. Open...

Really, How do you do that? Update: Nevermind, found it.