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Nice suggestions and ideas- thanks for sharing. Care to share the skill challenge you made?

I think the quality of the articles has been great, and has been providing me with steady ideas and pieces to use in my campaign- so it is well worth the money for me. That said, as I was going through issue 368 (and several of the back issues) to do some editing (adding in links to the TOC) I...

CDs, thumbdrives, and internet storage (most online mail systems are free) provide great back-up sources. You're definitely right about MTBFs, that's why I always have a secondary back-up and in most cases, a tertiary back up (off-site) available as well.

If you can't pay someone, why not hire an intern? I would think that, especially in this industry, there would be someone out there willing to do the work for free just to put that on a resume; or heck, to say they worked in the field and possibly make an inroad into working for WOTC. These...

I went this route the session before last. When the group emerged from the Keep, after having defeated Kalarel, I had them run into Delphina Moongem who told them that Winterhaven had been overrun by Hobgoblins; they also caught wind that the traitor they had heard of from the note on Irontooth...

I've been enjoying running the series, especially after spending over two years writing my own series of adventures for a long running campaign. It's nice to have most of the work done for you ahead of time. I wish the series had more of a consistent thread, or overarching plot that went with...

Agreed. The cost of the lead free alloys that are used by most metal-mini manufacturing companies has been steadily going up in the last few years. It's obviously a concern when companies like Reaper are going back to lead-based pewters (P-65 line), which will lower their costs but there's the...

Midnight would be my definite favorite. I love the entire concept, and FFG did a stupendous job with the materials (perhaps minus one book) that they put out in support of that setting.

I steal a lot from video games- personally I use fantasy (Icewind Dale, God of War, Guild Wars, etc.) but there are also some good modern setting video games that have decent soundtracks. I think videogames work pretty well since they have pieces that are written to be queued up when combat...

Not sure if you read the other thread regarding the DDM line, but my suggestion in that thread was for heroic, epic and paragon versions of PC minis. Each level would get more powerful with armor, weapons, garb, etc. Of course, if I was in charge of the line, I'd make the heroic version of the...

More salamanders please. The versions from previous releases are a bit pricey on the secondary market now. It would be nice to have a lancer, an archer and another noble released. I think Demonweb looks real good; I was hoping for more duergar (couldn't you have bumped the to the Feywild set...

Look, this argument has been done over and over again, but I just had to say you can't compare metal versus plastic miniatures. And you'll never be able to compare mass-produced, pre-painted plastic miniatures with hand crafted and hand-painted metal miniatures. I used to be a huge metal mini...

I would love to see the mini sets do stages of PC minis; such as a Heroic, Paragon and Epic version of the same mini. I recall another metal mini manufacturer doing this years ago, and I think it would work quite well with the DDM line. Of course you wouldn't have to do all the levels for one...

It was between Blood War, and Giants of Legend for me. Blood War won out for me due to some of the great sculpts in that line. I'm surprised that Dragoneye ranked so low- that one had some great utility figures that makes it rank pretty high in my opinion.

I have a Borders Reward card, and every Thursday they offer a coupon that ranges anywhere from 20-40% off. A lot of time it works out to be the same discount as the online price, and I get my instant gratification! After you spend $150 (either online or in store) you get a $5 coupon, and...

- No talking when boxed text is being read!

I just finished up DM'ing Keep on the Shadowfell, and I came across a great thread (can't seem to locate at the moment) that talked about different mapping techniques before running the module. Someone had posted a composite of all the maps from KotS, and so I took those files and chopped them...

RPG Soundmixer was a nice purchase in that it included a pretty extensive and varied collection of sound effects to begin with. If you look at some of the sound effect CD collections that are out there for sale, those can run you some big $$. Of course, as I mentioned, you can tinker with...

You can do this with a number of video games. A few years ago I went through all of the Baldur's Gate games, Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment, Thief, etc. and stripped out the sound files and put them either into wav or mp3 files and have put them in directories. In my last campaign, where I...