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Would it be possible to do some string parsing on titles when the threads are submitted and add something to the end of titles that end with "print"? Maybe something like a period or something else that wouldn't be too obnoxious but would stop the problem from happening?

Maybe the PCs find out that the item they've been questing for is actually buried on the farm. This works best if they've been tracking clues to this item for a while. They might find out that the last item's owner was a relative of the farm owner, and eventually they realize that he buried it...

Regarding the theater of thieves, not sure how it will work in a fantasy setting, but I thought of a fake psychic show where one or more theater workers walk through the audience and hold up objects borrowed from said audience and the blind-folded "psychic" on stage will name the objects. The...

You could have gone back to the black skin on your own at any time. I did.

Honestly, if I were the DM in that situation, I would have been the one to speak up and say, "Uh, guys, you saw a curtain in that room," if they started talking about how there were no windows. I am a very visual person, and a tad ADD. I frequently miss parts of audible descriptions if I'm not...

Anyone seen this movie? My husband and I just finished watching it on DVD. It felt like somebody had taken a reasonably cerebral sci-fi "what if" plot and dumbed it down it with gore. Lots and lots of gore. It starts out promising. The main idea is that in the near future vampires have...

If your players are okay with it, you can give them pre-genned characters for the prequel. That way you don't have to work hard to give them immunity. You may even WANT a TPK with this initial group, just to rub in the fact that the invading force is so powerful.

I'm in two groups right now, a live one that's fairly new and an online one that has been going on for years. The live one has been going on for only about 9 months without a real schedule. I don't really know how to call that one. The online group has had the same three people (me included)...

If you know your players really well and you think they'd go for this sort of thing, go ahead and spring it on them. The fact that you had to ask on EN World makes me think you have some doubts about whether they'd all be okay with it. If that's the case, ask them. As a player, I enjoy...

I've been looking for a picture of a female Dark Sun halfling to use for a character in an upcoming game and have not come up with much. Anyone know of any good images, or places to look for them? She's a warden, but I've been having such a hard time finding ANY Dark Sun-looking halflings that...

I played in this game. I think we had enough info beforehand that the DM let us look up the Tarrasque entry when we were prepping for the fight. I think we also managed to keep it at a distance from most of the party and were just hitting it from afar. It really was a cakewalk. We were proud...

I'm aware of that, but I have so little free time nowadays I don't want to spend hours developing an app that I will probably never get to use on a real phone (because I can't justify paying that fee). I do enjoy developing stuff in my free time, but that's because I like making computers do my...

The company I work for is actually a gold-certified Microsoft partner, and we have already put an app in the marketplace, but I don't feel like explaining to my boss that I want to write an app based on a game where people pretend to be elves. :p Maybe if I were a developer I could talk them...

I've noticed that a few RPG-related apps have popped up in the Marketplace in the past few months, but all of the ones that looked worthwhile had some sort of cost to them, so I didn't pick them up. I was considering making an app myself. I do have some development experience. However, when I...

I very much agree that the world should have logical consequences to the players action or inaction, but be careful here. Avoid the temptation to punish the PCs for doing or not doing something you think they should have done. To use the example where the party alienated the "good guy" group...

Stop and think about why they're making characters like that. Most likely they're not purposely trying to make your life miserable. It could be that they enjoy a different type of game than you are presenting. Maybe next time ask your players, "What type of campaign do you want to play?"...

Don't think about your prep in terms of an awesome story. Think about it in terms of an awesome situation (or set of situations). Bad prep: This adventure, the party will come upon a village where the cattle and sometimes the villagers regularly get mauled at night. The village mayor hires...

The 4th edition Dark Sun book has some rules for favors that could probably easily apply to Pathfinder or any game. To sum it up, you basically assign a monetary value to the favor, and you can call on the person or group later and get that much worth of resources from them. It's like you have...

Wow, holy necromancy! I asked this question five years ago.

Why are they the "chosen ones"? Maybe make the definition of "chosen one" vague enough that you can add or remove characters pretty easily. If a character has to leave and a new one has to come in, well, that original guy wasn't really a chosen one, and this new guy is. Maybe... You'll...