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I have found that a weapon with a benefit the players want to use that comes with a cost is a fun way to go. Some ideas you might use: The sword has a damage bonus, however, those struck by it can only be reincarnated as drow. Over time the shadow cast by the wielder becomes a living being...

In my world each race ages at the same rate until the late teens, then the aging process changes depending on the race. This is mostly a mechanic as to why the half races are generally rare or only existent for specific couplings. There are far more half orcs and the like than there are half elves.

In one of the Castle Perilous novels there is a description of how an incubus can provide pleasure in ways a mortal cannot. An npc wizard had discovered a low level succubus hiding from punishment, created a ring to control her and used her as an information source to summon incubii and other...

I changed Strahd's gender and played her as Miriam Blaylock from The Hunger by Whitley Strieber. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_(Strieber_novel) Miriam is afraid of loneliness and surrounds herself with intellectuals, poets, musicians, philosophers, or those who can provide her with...

Apply common sense to simply things. Not everyone is going to have a key that opens a door or object in their pockets. Once when my players split the party the non-thieving portion came across a group of orcs. One had his hand down a hole, one who was standing muttered "Hurry up I'm hungry."...

They do not need armor, for, they have their faith in their deity to shield them from harm. "May the Gods always stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk."

We never did like the backgrounds as presented. They felt incomplete for lack of better word. Our solution was to incorporate the backgrounds and skills from Talislanta. For us the combinations of background you choose define what your "class" is.

I have always considered the source of the magic which powers the item. A ring of truth created by a follower of Asmodeus most likely will be more fluid in intent than one created by a follower of Pelor.

My players would assume that the elf maiden had family that was still alive and would attempt to resurrect her in order to reunite her with family and friends. While the greediest of the party would be looking to exploit the local inheritance laws to make some coin.

A Holy Paring Knife Fruit pared by this knife will not brown for the course of the meal.

I use various dice to count down the time in either seconds or minutes.

This has only happened once, a GM and his best pal from work in the same game. The best pal became the "leader" character and everything revolved around him. Then there were the never ending inside work jokes that only the two of them understood leaving the rest of us wondering what was going on.

World travel allows me to better create a feeling of being in a more exotic foreign place for the players as they journey around our game world.

Our game is very different from a typical D&D game. We have house ruled, home brewed, added content and mechanics from other systems to develop our game. Levels grant divine miracles and powers for clerics, spells and additional slots for wizards. The difficulty was having an equivalent for the...

For general foes I give a brief description. A troll wearing stolen rugs as a kilt and a cloak made from the hide of a great bear who is dragging one of the farmer's daughters by her hair to the barn. For specific foes I find an appropriate picture online. The medusa on the cover of Dragon...

My players have their primary characters and several alternates each. When the primary dies permanently they bring in one of the alternates all who are a few levels lower than the primary characters. The group is current level 8-13 with the alternates being level 5-9. Some due get played more...

When NPCs are extremely nice to the female player characters and the DM believes that the females should be nice to him in return. Not enforcing a separation of character knowledge from player knowledge.

You could borrow the Kistrel subquest from NWN2.

I voted that life is cheap, however, being maimed and disfigured is far more common and gives the players a narrow window to run away like Sir Robin. More often than not, my players, when not being diplomatic and finding themselves in a hurtful situation, have done so by splitting off into...

Several of the classes from The Dragon. The bandit is often played.