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This! I think there was ... is a small problem with certain player types. They show up and expect the DM to have done everything! Which if that works for you and your group, awesome. But I, as a DM, am constantly trying to get feed back from players. What's your goal in life? What do you...

I went with your suggestion and everyone had a blast last night as the effigy showed up. As soon as the effigy started to attack the party threw up defensive magics to stop the possession ability. The party also blew threw a lot of homework rewards to ensure that no one lost any levels as...

This is one of those questions that seems so easy but is incredibly deceptive. If I knew the magic formula for an awesome story/campaign I'd be writing them for a living and then going to bed on a giant pile of money. Like a dragon. So as I struggled to come up with an answer, I decided to...

Just to toss in my two coppers.... Sometimes it's nice for your players to suddenly encounter some speed bump encounters. Bad guys, monsters, guards what have you that were a pain a few levels ago are suddenly just a nuisance. It really helps the players feel like they've grown in power and...

My take on all skills, perception included, has been something like: "Roll Religion or Planes. Whatever is higher. And don't forget to add your 'I'm a dwarf and therefore awesome bonus' to your roll." If you want to change the skills based on the nature of the roll, you could easily just add...

I use roll20. It's let me keep my old group together and get back in touch with one of the guys I first started playing D&D with. So big props there. It has chat/voice/video which is nice though every now and then it acts up so we have to wind up turning that off and using something like...

Last session I sent my players to the abyss. As they traveled the 507th layer, the paladin in my group went up against a Thunderbeast. In a stroke of bad (good?) luck, the Thunderbeast rolled a few twenties in a row and did near max damage on the critical damage. Enough damage that I would...

This needs a feat chain. Another feat that lets you create a sonic boom while farting, perhaps? Also, this reminds me of the ending to Guards! Guards!

I was in a game once where one player kept making, essentially, the same PC over and over and over again. Rogue that hangs out in the back with a chip on his shoulder and isn't a team player. So after having to make yet another character, he wound up pitching all his ideas to the group and had...

When I DM, I send out an email after each session. The email consists of a Last Time recap, Next Time teaser, a homework question and any housekeeping I need to address, like XP. It's helpful for everyone, myself included, to have something I can quickly skim through to remind me of what's...

I think that really the onus is on the DM to get the other players to pay attention. And its hard since you're a player; not the DM. One way, as a player, is to either feed the rest of the group false or no information. "Oh gee, I think this says 'Turn the blue stone four times when the...

In the 3.5 monster manual they appear more frog like to me. And their description only mentions that they are amphibious. So I guess I qualify for the amphibious part. My apologies for any confusion.

So, growing up one of my favorite games was Tie Fighter. I loved flying around in my suicide bucket, crushing pirates, ending civil wars and being a force of law in the galaxy. Yea, the empire could be a bit heavy handed but we were making the galaxy a better place! I played the Decipher CCG...

Whatever is necessary for the story to be told? When I run a game I don't typically think about where/when the game will end. The players and I tell a story. If the story ends at level 12, it ends at level 12. If we make it to 18 so be it. The last munchkin I had to put up with was...

Trilby, will you let us know how it worked out?

No love for Kuo-Toa? See invisible creatures, sticky fly paper shields, generate lightning bolts. Fun for the entire party! If you want a Kuo-Toa themed adventure, Zenith Trajectory (Chapter 4?) from the Shackled City AP features them prominently.

For a sniper, are you just looking to be able to attack from a far off distance? Are you looking to deal a large amount of damage with the hope of one hit kills? In general you'll want Hide and Spot with max ranks. If you can't see your target, how can you shoot him? Hide will help you stay...

What I would do is, if the character's alignment is Neutral but he trends towards evil, have them register on Detect Evil but bump it down a strength category. So while he may have a moderate or strong aura if you were using Detect Law, he would only ping as moderate or faint if you detect evil...

I look forward to next week's Story Time, then. :) Do you think you'll get some good roleplaying out of the PC going to the castle? Or will it just be "I go to the castle. I roll diplomacy."?

In Monster Manual 2 there is both a Dire Horse and a Legendary Horse. Depending on how much magic you want to have running around, you could rip off Angel (or maybe it was Buffy?) where the big bad had special glass to let in the windows to let Vampires walk around during the day. You...