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My friend who GMed for us in 3.5 did something similar. 4d6 re-roll 1s once and drop the lowest die. Roll seven times and drop the lowest. Three 1s counted as an 18 and four 1s counted as a 19. If you didn't like your rolls you could make roll another batch of stats until you were satisfied...

The 3.5 Tome of Magic for the wonderful Binder class. I'd also love Lords of Madness for the Fleshwarper PrC and grafts but I think that could be homebrewed relatively easily.

Here's an old thread about zombie plagues that I found very interesting. http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?188172-Zombie-Plagues-in-your-Campaign-Setting

By "save their own hide" I meant "get out of trouble". I didn't mean to imply that the PCs would have to threaten a prisoner with death. The point that I was trying to make is that when I've seen (and had) this sort of reaction, it's more of a reaction to a GM who overplays most or all of...

I'm not singling you out as playing "wrong". I know there are instances where this is valid and I've encountered these in my gaming experiences. But in my experience with such instances the GMs presumed a zealous devotion by their NPCs for their cause, which seems like an unrealistic...

I'd like to see magic items that have interesting properties rather than +1 attack or AC. I hope they have a Wand of Wonder that's just as random as the Wild Sorcerer.

Speaking of, I bought that module but never ran it. For those that did, do you think it could work well in 5th Edition? Or would it require too much updating and tinkering?

STR, CON, DEX, INT, WIS, CHA: 15, 12, 11, 12, 7, 15 17, 8, 12, 17, 9, 13 Wow. Both are good. I'd probably take the second array. The character would be a mountain dwarf who was pushed into being a wizard despite his incredible strength because he has a keen wit and wasn't as robust as other...

That's exactly why I like rolling for Chaosium Call of Cthulhu games. My first character had an abysmal sanity score. His starting SAN was far below the "crazy" character who lost tons of sanity in a previous session. But it was all part of the fun because the expectation was that few of us...

It's not just that TV and movies are easier. TV and movies are also a valid art form. Both can have superb plots, characters, and character development. They can demonstrate how to tell a story and how to pace an episode/session. And since we're all amateur improv actors when we roleplay, it...

I'm not very familiar with Les Miserables but it seems like Inspector Javert (an officer hunting a criminal) and Jean Valjean (criminal who broke the law for a good cause) are an example of a Good vs. Good conflict. Maybe you can do something similar by having a Good adversary pursuing the...

I'm not playing a GOO Warlock but I like where you're coming from. PS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Ju0W9UEiM

That's my experience too. The first time I ran Dread one of my friends was very hesitant because he said he was terrible at Jenga. With a little convincing he agreed to play even if it meant that he might topple the tower early. In the end he did perfectly fine. The tower got precariously...

Aw, I'm the proud parent of my first double post!

My group tried Eclipse Phase and likes the setting but the system was too granular and crunchy for us. I had the same instinct as you but I thought about taking the concept and using Fate to handle it.

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. It's a great read about heroic stories and mythology.

There are tons of systems and settings that I want to play. 7th Sea, The One Ring, 4E Gamma World, and Ashen Skies (for the system and setting), Midnight (for the setting--Maybe 5th Edition Midnight would work well.), and FFG Star Wars (for the system).

For your next campaign I think you should lay down some expectations that the players agree to adhere to. These might include playing non-evil characters who have a heroic bend to them, actions will have repercussions (i.e., killing whole villages will draw the attention of protectors)...

HeroQuest was the gateway drug for my friends and I! After playing through all of the HQ modules we made our own and kept adding complexity and rules until we figured it would be easier to play this "D&D" game that had its complex rules done already. My top ten include (in no particular order)...

My folks never took issue with my brother and I playing D&D but I suppose since we started in 1992 we missed most of the D&D hysteria. However a bit later we started playing Magic and my aunt came to use with the same misinformed concerns. After explaining to her that it was really a game about...