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Zombies...and more? Wow, these are GREAT ideas, guys! I especially appreciate Stormborn's ideas for the actual campaign arc. Along with the background parameters I need to figure out the specifics about various power groups and the politics of the future. While I definitely want some zombie...

Yes, definitely. All part of the apocalypse. Albeit, I don't see them being truly undead zombies, a.k.a. fed on negative energy from an overflowing hell, but more victims of some genetic body-animating plague that induces cannibalism. I don't feel like I have to define the reasoning...

My resources: D20 Modern Sourcebook D20 Menace Manual D20 Future D20 Apocalypse Near-future setting, combining Genetech with a touch of PSI. A few experimental fusion reactors have been developed by first-world powers to help quell growing energy concerns and diminishing fossil fuels. Combine...

You know, this is one of those things that I feel is better left abstract. For the most part, IMC hit point loss does equate to damage taken. But I don't have any exact measurement of what equals what, I'm usually just trying to add flavor to the combat. "You manage to raise your staff to block...

As an example: I remember being really impressed by Stephen Fox's amazing thread, The Fine art of Winging it. Also The Essential Guide to the GM's Notebook But I can think of many other wonderful threads, creative flows of ideas; Things like my own Location Idea Resource or, and I can't...

Greetings ENWorlders! Do you have any threads bookmarked because they are chock full of useful goodness? Have you ever even looked up a thread on-line while you were in-game because it had the perfect NPC, plot thread or description, or explanation of how to do something? Or do you remember...

Gaming it on tonight! Thanks for the great links, guys! So we're going to be gaming the first session tonight. After a couple of nights of work, I realize that I'm not running an updated Keep on the Borderlands per se, but more an original work that is a tribute to the original B1 Module...

Dang, good call. Making that change now. Got some more ideas to be added to the thread. By any chance can anyone hit me with a link to the thread from last week? I musta missed it.

Well, it's Summer Campaign time. My brother and I are putting together a new gaming group now that the old campaign has petered out, and I've been on a nostalgia kick - I never got the opportunity to play in any of the original D&D modules, but bit by bit over the past couple of years I've been...

I think it has less to do with damage and types of damage than it has to do with the damage/shield trade-off. The most damage your character can do one-handedly without a feat is 1d8, but you can get a +2 bonus to armor using a large shield. With an exotic weapon proficiency, you can use a...

Los Angeles gaming Check out Aero Hobbies on Santa Monica and Yale. There's also a strong gaming/fantasy group called Enigma based out of UCLA... I'm too lazy to run a search, but I know they have an easy-to-find website. public transportation in L.A. is kind of a joke, but it does exist...

Orcs at the Gate? The intrepid quartet limp their way back in town, now feeling like truly the mightiest heroes to have graced their God's valley. The local tavern is soon aglow with late-night tales of daring and armies of goblins, as our heroes squander the last of their trust funds into the...

Aaaand...Action! This is definitely what I'm talking about... Defensive and offensive ideas, and ways to play it. The players, as yet, have not taken an active role in leading the villagers...after all, the characters are only second level, and the players are all fairly new to roleplaying. So...

As an example of a moment of drama, I had the idea that the defenders had filled a line of oil along the southern perimeter (where the goblins would be attacking). They station a man in hiding to light it once the first wave of goblins has attacked, but for some reason or another he gets taken...

Okay, here's the set-up: The PCs are currently in the small mountain village of Goblinrock Gulch along the western pass into the Valley of Amberhaven. Fairly isolated area in typical "Keep on the Borderlands" frontier setting. Goblinrock Gulch lies nestled against the rocky valley edge with a...

Stand and be delivered! Player's Introduction: There’s no denying that AmberHaven is beautiful. You’ve grown up here and you have to admit that for the most part you’ve lived a peaceful and comfortable life in the quiet mountain valley. AmberHaven is called the Valley of Fog because the legend...

A brief introduction: This Story Hour will chronicle the unfolding events of a simple out-of-the-book D&D game that six aimless and pointlessly creative art students have started running in the Summer of 2004. The game is an introduction to the glories of roleplaying for at least three of the...

paper scenery for miniatures Best by far that I've seen is Denny's work at Worldworks Games: http://www.worldworksgames.com/ He's done some incredible stuff, from simple villages to complex dungeons. He's making pirate ships right now... Freeport here I come!

In support of Downer I was totally lurking and should have added my two cents to the other, anti-downer thread, but I agree with you. I really like Kyle Hunter's artwork. Him and that other Dungeon artist regular really cop a Mike Mignola-style of line art, and I love it. Especially the...

believable clerics? I've had issues off and on with the whole "concept" of clerics, but I've certainly seen them played successfully and believably. The closest I've really considered a fantasy cleric archetype has been, get this, Friar Tuck from the old Errol Flynn Robin Hood movie. There was...