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Okay. In that case, please describe how you and your players would keep track of tons of rooms that lead through windy corridors with things that happen in about 60% of those rooms. I'm honestly curious, because I've never handled something of this magnitude in D&D. Would you really keep it as...

The World's Largest Dungeon is tons of fun, but I am getting tired of the mapping. I spend a lot of time going, "The room is 10,20,30, 40 feet wide from the Eastern wall and 10, 20, 30 feet wide from the Southern wall," and then reaching over to draw the map in when my poor directions have the...

You need everything that adds chunk onto D&D. That means Comeliness, Honor points, social class, piety, etc. Use the Hackmaster random background tables to help your players figure out how many siblings they had in what order, how many were illegitimate, and whether their parents are still...

Funny, I found this thread to be quite helpful. Ironic that you're being adversarial about a thread that you think is so adversarial. What I've gotten from this thread isn't a collection of ways to be vindictive, but a number of ways to help control a powerhungry metagamer in such a way as to...

I have a similar situation in my game. The thing is, I'm running an Evil campaign (a gimmick to entice jaded WoD gamers into D&D), and the PCs decided that they WANT to be lycanthropes. In a recent fight against werewolves, they kept one alive and forced it to bite them. Two of the characters...

I started reading your post and thought, "Chaotic Neutral, for sure." Then, by the end, I was thinking, "Lawful Neutral." Where I run into problems is when you said that they have a policy that the strongest warrior gets to take what he wants. This would seem to go against LN, which would have...

Thanks everyone for helpful responses. Please don't let this thread get political. I'm seriously seeking information and practical knowledge, in addition to just being curious about how Canada works. This thread has been a big help already, and I'd prefer it not be closed because someone...

I lived in Rochester, NY for five years. I know that's not Edmonton, but it's a decent farm-team training area for learning to deal with snow. I've lived in the SF Bay Area for four years now. I miss harsh weather. ;) Thanks for the advice. I think you're right, I should check with them and...

Not to make this thread political or anything.... Moving on. This thread is off-topic enough as it is.

I've read up on those websites, at least as much as I could handle in one session of hardcore legalese absorption. It seems like the monetary requirements are pretty high, and I guess I'm wondering if people have ever moved there without having the required six months' worth of living funds at...

I'm not sure where else to ask this. I know there are a lot of Canadians here, though, and someone might be able to help. I looked on a few websites, but I want to know about what the process is like in practice. I'm considering applying for a job in Edmonton, which is the reason this has come...

Well, magic is a tool, in my opinion. If an evil man kills someone with a hammer, and that same hammer was used earlier in helping to build a home for the homeless, what is the hammer's alignment? I thought about the Sanity system for Cthulhu, but I don't like the idea of hopelessness that...

In my group, you're only as good as your last session. I ran a Kalamar/Dragonstar game that was getting "rave reviews," but then I had one session that didn't go as well (I worked hard on it, but one player got himself bored and too out his laptop, put on headphones, and just started playing a...

As the originator of the original post this one refers to, I'm very interested in hearing what you guys have to say. If there are any questions about the setting I want to use in specific, hit me. I love talking about this sort of thing, especially if it makes my setting better. :) In my world...

Another thought: Likely you've never read Everlasting, but it has a great take on ghouls, which the book calls "Ghuls." They're undead created when a mortal creates and swallows a potion of immortality. If the potion is exactly right, they become ghuls that look just like normal people. If not...

In my game (Kalamar/Dragonstar), I ran ghouls as the animated bodies of humans whose flesh had been eaten. I used them in a story that involved the PCs getting a distress beacon from a nearby space station, landing there, and finding the place overrun by ghouls. The lone surviving human begged...

Well, think of the modern real world. Why wouldn't magic be common knowledge? Obviously, the few who can really do magic are keeping the power to themselves. The past has shown that weak minds wielding magic can cause irreversible damage to the world, just as weak minds with high science can do...

I suppose I should flesh out my skeletal campaign world a bit for more advice. This game was originally made for a homebrew version of Hunter: The Reckoning. Basically, it's the modern day (actually, the game begins on 1/1/00, with the y2k paranoia), and while everyone's fears of the y2k bug...

I am interested in coverting D&D to a modern day setting, but I want to do it more faithfully than d20 Modern seems to do. I want to keep arcane and divine magic, keep most classes the way they are except for the introduction of technology (guns for fighters, etc.), and all that. Where I run...

Why would you want to REDUCE someone's stats, especially if they're already playing and enjoying the character? These people aren't competing directly with each other. In a cooperative game, complaints based on overpower/underpower are simply jealousy and spotlight-envy. And, to be honest...