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hey steve this article was submitted to shadis LONG ago... and it presents an excellent alternative to the event-driven story... by putting events in a different order, allowing characters to drive the action. i was eventually going to bring it up... thanks for trumping me :)

i don't believe they have a right to be PASSIVELY entertained... i'm not a showman working the crowd for free... pay me if you want to demand i run you through a level of diablo but they do have a right (and I would argue an obligation) to ACTIVELY increase the entertainment value of the...

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this IS a great setup, if you work it out with the DM a week ahead of time... if he knows about it before the game starts. i apologize if i assumed you were dropping it on him. i think DMs that have hit snags come up with smarter starts to campaigns anyway though... instead of... make some...

i will steal from you liberally without guilt

i think this was addressed before, but essentially this is a bad background concept. its scope is so limited, that i as DM would make you find the orc dead on the side of the road on the way to town, your wife, miraculously alive. creating a limited revenge background (unless all the pcs are on...

can someone explain why post 124 has my signature on it, but post 147 does not?!? j-drake... e-mail me whenever and yes, anything you'd like to contribute would be awesome

yes. if any books have touched on this subject at all, its the player's guides to the various worlds of darkness. but two pages in the back of player's guide to mage does not exactly address the level of responsibility player's should show to help create a more co-operative environment...

i don't think its as bleak as all that, but i don't think it'll sell millions of copies either feh... back to brainstorming btw that takes me to my second concept (which i elluded to in post #1) the concept of player primers... at this point i think i'll save it for the book, but there's a...

yeah.. that would kick... a fiendish yuan-ti.... or worse... a half-fiend yuan-ti oh man... that would certainly challenge the pcs... he was a lizard man once, but now he's a snake-thing curse you, dave mage... you are too wise in the ways of evil

writing the book well. i will say that i am in the process of dicussing this project with other writers. doing it will not be for profit, but because i love this hobby and after 8 years of writing for it, i want to do something that doesn't follow the "bigger orc, with bigger sword" thread of...

sorry... didn't have my book in front of me... 10/silver it is

one the best weapons in longtail's arsenal is invisibility, and his ability to cast it over and over his damage reduction 5/silver is great too if you're going with kyton, neither of those abilities are as important, but a single boss fighting ANY group is going to suffer more hits in a round...

While I don't agree with everything you've posted on this thread, LostSoul, this is an excellent concern. You are describing the difference between plot-driven and character-driven adventures. Dungeon-crawling is location-based, but can be part of either kind of campaign, or just be part of a...

good stuff the process here is NOT to say one way is better than another i've said this four times now, but people are still missing it the book is about a) making sure EVERYONE has fun b) the DMs work doesn't go to waste c) the DMs time isn't devalued and disrespected by gamers who think...

why do players hate DMs so much? i totally DISAGREE with this there are only 36 basic plots. to say you don't like three of them limits design; limits options. it also undermines faith in the DM that a simple sewer excursion couldn't be more... couldn't be a discovery of a ruin or ancient...

i've actually read these, believe it or not but gary didn't like actors or story... he saw no place for it in roleplaying. this book needs to be a guide for everyone... a tool for every style, and level of play with essays and excerpts and discussions about what works for what kind of DM and...

this is awesome YOUR fun is not okay if it detracts from my fun... and if you think its okay, i'm coming to your house and kicking your cat and saying... "Hey. This IS fun!" i think big picture thinking is the enemy of short-sighted ' immediate gratification ' gaming... which i think is...

being clearer while i have my own bias about event-based gaming and munchkins, each would get their fair attention is a work of this caliber. the point is to promote COMPROMISE and COMMON GROUND something few if any game books have ever addressed and i think its crucial for people that DO...

teleportation its actually covered in the book. if you read the blink dog entry, i believe it says LOS for teleportation and explain which regions where the wards have failed; in such cases, the PCs can teleport through the region ... just not out of it (except the highest altitude in Region...