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Back in the days of 1E/2E, I was influenced by the gold boxed games and started using a grid because of that game. Due to various arguments, we messed around with the system. I am fuzzy on the details, though but here are the basics. Init was a ten sided plus Dex mod. I counted down from...

Foreshadowing is also a very tough thing to do, at least in my experience with the players I have had. I have introduced things in the first session that come back in the final fight. That's both good and bad. When it works out and everyone remembers what's going on, it's great! It comes...

I don't think anyone is arguing that we, as DMs, should go easy on the players. Far from it. What I am saying, at least, is that I set up what is supposed to be a reasonable fight for the characters and then I play them as intelligent as I think they are and try to "win" that fight. Monsters...

It's been my experience, but I haven't DMed that many players, probably less than forty, that all players have this expectation. No matter how many times I told them, and tried to explain to them, they might have to run, they kept thinking they could win or shouldn't have to run. I still...

I have had campaigns seem to go pear shaped when player's expectations and my own don't match up. With 3E, or WoD, I ran campaigns that lasted about nine months. I had one player drop out because he wanted to play a game that lasted two years minimum. Even then, I knew my campaigns didn't...

This. Recently, either I have been able to pick things well or things were just that close. In several recent fights, it's expected there will be more monsters and they will go down but keep fighting. However, if a PC ever goes down, they start looking at their options and what they need to...

I know but I haven't checked to see if they complement each other as well as this one. I guess if they suggest the giants and archons, as I set up, then they must. Thanks! edg

I haven't searched, I'm at work, so links to something like this are fine. Has anyone compiled or found a way to track monsters that work well together? Over the weekend, I had one set of monsters that really complemented each other well. It was Ice Archons and Frost Giants. What would...

I hope this makes you feel better. I have only run ONE session where riddles worked. Every other time, the players, who are the ones actually forced to figure out the riddle, either knew the answer right away or had no clue what it meant. In general, I have found that to be true in life...

Ouch. My wife started out jealous but has come to understand that it's a big part of me and my life and it wouldn't go away without me being miserable. Being the DM and hosting the game, her only "rule" is approval of anyone coming to our place, which is fine. I haven't had the problem...

I'm 37, 38 this year, married with no kids and a computer geek. My parents are middle of the road Catholics who raised us Catholic and sent us to Catholic school until 12th grade. Until we gamed at my house, me being the DM, I think they wanted to make sure I was okay and not out doing bad...

Wow. You must go through players fast! I mean, selling them into slavery or their deaths must really take a toll on game night! :D Couldn't resist. I think I could get my players to agree to allow their characters to be taken into slavery with a good reason for it. I think what makes...

I think the game still allows a wide range of play. To me, radiant damage can come from any god, good or evil. for example. However, in my own games, the player characters are heroes. They are the main characters in an ongoing story that I am trying to tell with my players. Further, my...

I am running Dark Sun, so there is slavery. It's mostly in the background but it does come up every session. My players surprised me in that when they earned a title, they want to abolish slavery in their city and then go from there. I doubt it will stay as the focus, or that it even was the...

I was not completely clear, so my bad. So, let me ask this: What purpose does it serve to have it so that a (non plot protected) player character can die from a lucky shot? Indeed, what is a plot protected player character and how do they exist? I see part of the answer is so they don't...

There was another point I had meant to make but forgot. The other divide in DND, as a class based system, was that only high level NPCs could hold their domains against the PCs. What I mean is, there was a divide between political power and combat power. Since DND has always increased...

Okay, it's taken me years to understand hit points and while I am specifically quoting mmadsen, this goes to any 1E players who want a low level minion to be able to kill anyone at any time. What? DND has never tried to be a realistic combat simulator. As someone else said, one hit kills...

If they are now 5th level, and started going to Undermountain at 1st level, they are now experts of it. Have NPCs come to them with questions! ("What do you recommend to me as my son is intent on going down there! What can I give him to help him survive? Will you go with him and his group?")...

Actually, d20 Modern is silly. I tried to use it for a (d20 future) game and couldn't get past those names. The problem is that "fighter" tells you something about the class. "Strong" does not. So, I like the mechanic but the names they used for the classes needs to be more evocative. At...

Thanks for the reply! Interesting about Crysis! Thanks! I did wonder why it was still pushing my system so much and that helps. I still realize it's playing a lot better than on my old system and am still happy with the new one! Yes, they are SLI linked. I probably bought into the charts...