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I swear I posted this last week, but the thread is no-where to be found. In my game, the party are currently a day's foot travel (under normal conditions) away from their home. It's the middle of winter, and a blizzard is about to hit (unexpectedly). As I live in a place that never snows, I'm...

I'm not sure which thread I read it in, so I cannot give adequate thanks to the poster, however: Someone said "The equipment list is to the rogue, what the weapon list is to the fighter". That rang very true for me and got me thinking. What if there was a way to give each class an 'equipment'...

I'm far from the best DM in the world, and one of my major flaws is the inability to think beyond a few familiar adventure plot tropes and goals. With that in mind; I come to you, ENWorld, for advice. What I want is an exhaustive list of adventure goals and/or plot tropes from which I can...

I have seen complaints on these forums about both 3e's saves and 4e's defences. I think both camps have some good points in this regard. The only other solution I've seen proposed was 'players roll everything', which I personally am not a fan of. While pondering these three mechanics and the...

Like many, I was pleased with the idea of Rituals, but not pleased with the implementation that 4E chose. Separating spells from rituals in the manner that 4E chose requires a lot of hard decisions. "Should this ability be a spell or a ritual?" This comes from being a binary choice. What...

Recently I've determined that a lot of my initial hatred of 4E stemmed from one source - not understanding the game. This may seem like an obvious statement, but what I'm getting at, is the first character I created, I was stuck with for nearly a year. It got to the point where my character...

How do you change statblocks for 3E into something as simple to use as the 4E statblock? Is it even possible? I'm open to simplifying the way monsters work in order to do this. In fact, that's a primary goal. I'd like to see 3E style and flavour integrated with the ease of use people are raving...

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggg! I GIVE UP! I just realized I've spent about 6 hours today scouring the net for various resources, and I've gotten nowhere! :confused: Can somebody PLEASE help me with the following: 1) A source of free, printable, overland maps that I can...

I'm thinking of running a short 2-3 session campaign. But one of the things I want to emphasise is that dying is bad - How do I keep villains alive? How do you run away from combat without blood thirsty heros slaughtering all your nice friendly npcs? I'm thinking to base my game on a robin...

Hi everyone. Today's topic is reviving old campaigns. I was running a campaign for my friends, and then life happened, so we haven't played for about 6 months. We're not avid players to begin with, we generally play once a month or less. We're at the point in the game where a small story arc...

Apologies if this is in the wrong forum. I've rolled stats, and starting gold. Stats are easy enough, but I'm trying to make the equipment of this character match his background. Stats are: str10, dex13, con11, int11, wis16, cha15. His name is Paheim -------------- Elaina was a young human...

I'm sick of making characters that I never get to play with. I'm also rather sick of DMing, as I don't feel I am good enough at it. I want to experience someone else's DMing ability to compare with. I live in Perth Western Australia, about half way between Perth centre and Joondalup. Zustiur.

I may soon encounter a situation where my gaming group relies on the spell Magic Weapon to deal with certain monsters. (namely a mummy). As they probably won't want to get near it if they can avoid doing so, I imagine they will want to cast the spell on ranged weapons. So my question is, since...

I intend to use the Beastmen from the Creature Catalogue this weekend. One of their listed weapons is a blowgun, but I can't find any 3E rules for such a weapon. Mainly I need to know, is it simple, martial or exotic, and what range increment does it have. Does anybody have details for this...

With an island adventure in mind I began making a map today. I drew the outline easily enough. Then I placed a few rivers and streams.. And then I drew in contour lines! Am I going too far here? Sure contour lines are useful.. but I don't even have any trees yet. What do you guys/gals do? Zustiur.