Search results

This is the code that I drafted for my D&D game. Some of it is obviously specific to the cosmology I was using and may not be of use to you. In particular, this was the code for a monotheistic religion meant to have a Judeo-Christian moral flavor. It was also meant to to define the Paladin's...

I came to this site as a general gamer and still read it as a general gamer but I spent more time here while I was preparing for and running my 3.5 campaign than I do otherwise.

Having the measurements in metric rather than the English system? ;)

Well, the site owner doesn't generally censor the opinions of others so you are pretty much free to tell him what you think or ignore him entirely. It's definitely a different approach from the more heavily moderated sites.

To be fair to the Slavers modules, they were written as convention tournament modules for use with pre-generated characters, not long-term PCs that the players are attached to. I also think the GM advice in the Hackmaster version of those modules about how to deal with player complaints is...

He simply farmed those out to other characters (McCoy = Wisdom, Spock = Intelligence). As a good recently deceased friend of mine, who memorized the dialog to Star Trek II, pointed out, Spock spends the entire movie dropping hints to Kirk to trigger almost everything Kirk does. That's pretty...

What I used in my D&D 3.5 campaign was basically a monotheist religion that had enough uncertainty built into it that it required faith. There was a single outer plane populated by angels and saints, ascended mortals, devils and demons, and the souls of the dead. The outer plane was a sphere...

If you like video game soundtracks, the one that they did for the original Halo is pretty good for gaming in just about any genre. In addition to Conan the Barbarian, the Conan the Destroyer soundtrack isn't nearly as bad as the movie and I recommend it, as well. Hans Zimmer's King Arthur...

Rutgers has been really melting down, too. They're starting to look like the team from my undergraduate days, which isn't a good thing. If they keep going the way they're going, they won't beat Louisville this year.

Every type of role-player has a bad form. The munchkin is the bad form of power gamer. The player who wrecks games because "That's what my character would do!" is the bad form of in-character player. The players who yell at other players for making sub-optimal decisions are the bad form of...

It's also large birds of prey. Cat collars get found in eagle's nests.

I've heard that the lifespan of an outdoor cat is something like 5 years on average. That's why all of our pet cats are indoor-only cats. It's certainly best to keep pet cats indoor. But given all the other animals in your area, any of them can be destructive, including birds. Around here...

Often, yes, but not always. In fact, I've read that a cat not using a litter box all of the time is one of the biggest reasons why owners give up or abandon pet cats. One of our pet cats had that problem. You can train a cat to stop having accidents but it's not necessarily quick or easy and...

Check the whole lists (click on the links). I'm not an expert on Missouri geography so there might be something on one of those two lists that is closer and one of those sites contains a whole list of links. That said, you should really try to bring kittens and really young cats to a no-kill...

From my first Google search: Miller-Roth Foundations - No-kill shelter. 2000 E. Broadway - #141 Columbia, MO. 65201-6009 573-657-9633. From the first search result that I got: http://metroanimal.org/directory/dog_and_cat_rescue.shtml Columbia Second Chance P.O.Box 10186 Columbia, MO 65205...

There is a lot of advice on training cats out there if you do some Google searches. We had a cat with an inappropriate peeing problem and rather than turn him in to a shelter (nobody wants to adopt a cat with that problem, so it probably would have been a death sentence), I figured out how to...

I got to see a finished copy of Castle Whiterock this weekend because I role-play with one of the authors. It's a very impressive boxed set that illustrates two of the advantages of the boxed set, even though I normally prefer books. First, rather than carrying around a single 700+ page book...

The Universal Table that I use when I GM and don't know what I want to have happen next is simple. Roll a die (a d20 is good, but even a d4 could work) and interpret the die by treating high rolls as good for the PCs and low rolls as bad for the PCs. The higher the roll, the better. The lower...

I do recommend reading the Rich Staats/Juha juuso Vesanto article that I referenced in that list of links earlier in the thread. It describes the two main approaches to designing a game world -- bottom up and top down -- and might give you a good idea of which information out of the rest of it...

Here are a few good links to check out (that lean toward creating worlds that are more realistic than fantastic): http://www.sfwa.org/writing/worldbuilding1.htm http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/9329/wcreate.pdf http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/builders/...