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I saw some PDFs for sale today that were 3 pages. The game material was one page in three! I don't want to buy one of these to give it a bad review but I want to see how many other people share my thoughts. This PDF had five variations on one core magic item. Just the variation titles in the...

I'm finding that the computer desktop is a little cold for inspiration when writing adventures. I was wondering what other DM's\Writers do when they want to put a game together so I thought I'd start this thread. How do you use computers and plain old paper when you write an adventure and...

I've been reluctant to take on the workload of DMing. I have some excellent players around but I got sort of burned out on 3.x and didn't like 4ed. (This is not an edition war thread). My question is how much prep is really valuable if you aren't in an adventure? The player characters have such...

I'm toying with a campaign where the players start in a town but come from a random quadrant of a world map. They'd likely have a couple of rolls to make and the rolls would locate a continent (bias for the local one) and then an area on that continent. They would only be able to choose a race...

I have a dim memory of a publication or pdf that had a collection of mediocre spells. I recall a spell that made you seem like a servant and a few relatively low level travelers items. A cloak? I am not sure but I think it might have been by Sean Reynolds. It was a small thing under seven...

I have a wizard on excellent terms with an established minor ruling power. The power is rather high character heavy having been the retirement site of a previous set of adventurers. What do people think it the best way (hopefully with software recommendations) to generate a list of the...

This can be from any edition, any game system. I'm planning an adventure that will include the possibility of some piracy between sailing ships. With or without magic. With or without gunpowder. I was wondering if anyone had a favourite rule system that was light and adaptable for table top...

I'm just considering adding a brick work to one of my game cities. Its not something people generally consider. What are the buildings in your game world made of? Bricks? Wattle and Daub? Carved Stone? Not care\Glossed over? How influential do you think building improvements would be. If a...

Radwe is a forlorn elf. Words Endure The big old farm house smelled of rich meals, dust, and mountain breezes. The roof timbers had long lines of engraving, in elvish, thanking the forest for her trees and wishing good fortune on the family hearth. Radwe sat easily among these timbers...

So D&D is about to release their second draconomicon for their fourth edition. Maybe I'm just getting old but I feel like having another shopping cart full of categorized and quantized mythical creatures is beginning to feel like somebody telling me about their stamp collection. I'm waiting...

Anybody know the state of Primal Urge Games and Rodney West? I though he wrote some imaginative stuff. I liked his Emerging Forms line. Anyone? Sigurd

This is a Gargoyle that is part of an AEG adventure, AEG8325 - Temple of the Iron Codex. What is the expert advice on setting a Challenge Rating and updating the stats? Greater Vesagos Gargoyle HD: 9d10+16 (94hp) Initiative:+3 (Dex) Speed: 25 ft; fly 55 ft (Average) AC 20 (+3Dex, +7 Natural)...

I may be just irritable today but I'm ticked at the stupid combined words the game seems to be filled with. eg Greataxe instead of Great Axe. It happens all over where two perfectly good words that work together by time honoured rules of english get pushed into one new word for no good reason I...

A lot of RPG players may only make a few things. They may be of varying quality but to the writers they will be important acts of giving. Making amateurs feel welcome and giving them clear guidelines should be a high priority for RPG companies. They're perhaps the best sort of encouragement you...

I have a hobgoblin army patterned on something like the roman legion. They have fighting formations as small as 7 soldiers. I was wondering if anyone knew of a good source for formation fighting rules and feats. This is the basic situation. The arrow points forward (Towards the Enemy). The...

I just discovered 'Dungeons-Daring' and it looks really ineresting. Free OGL game based in Germany and put together with Open Office. Dungeons Daring™ I was just wondering A) if anyone here had played it to give me a review b) if there were other RPGs with a similar outlook that people...

My temptation has always been to treat HP as an incremental thing that you accumulate like skill points - close reading of the rules is unclear though. Anyone with a clear source? Joe's the 6th level fighter gets a permanent increase to con such that his hp bonus increases by +1. Does he get 1...

My campaign has a scarily organized non human country emerging where Hobgoblins form a scarily efficient army. The party is on the border after seeing a war-camp first hand and they know how real the army is but the rest of the towns don't really. Anyway - A contingent of 20 hobgoblins with a...

I'm sorry if this isn't the right place for this comment but I had to say I love the cartoony section illustrations. 'Forums' with pitchforks and torches is a hoot. I don't know if they work as well shrunk but on the opening page they're magic. Sigurd

This is a map I did for Cartography Guild. If its useful to anyone, feel free. http://wm58.inbox.com/thumbs/71_9fa55_7d127e1b_oP.png.thumb Sigurd