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Houserules for the current 'world' I am running my campaign in. Humans have 3 extra points to use in Point Buy. Humans are supposed to be the most populous race by far, and making them slightly overpowered helps convince the players to play human. Everyone has 1 action point in every encounter...

Embrace it. No matter if the PCs are good or evil, people will hear about what they have done and what they are capable of. Think of it this way: do you think the henchmen of supervillains start off as people thinking 'I wanna be an evil guy who has a high chance of getting killed!' or rather...

I would suggest the benefit of the Peasant Caste to be that everyone doesn't hate you. I imagine many peasants having a view of the world like 'All these nobles do is tax our crops and sit in their castles drinking wine, all these warriors do is recruit young men to go to their deaths in wars...

In that case I would also make sure to note sometime later in the game, when they hear some horrible music 'That sounds almost as bad as you did in your short-lived bard career!'

I tend to run the first few sessions like the pilot of a TV show. Essentially, the characters are all there, doing what they will be doing for the rest of the run, but some details are still subject to change. The group discusses what classes everyone is rolling beforehand and gets to know the...

I have been in the same situation. Me as the DM hoping for a deep roleplaying experience, the players just wanting to kick some ass, drink some beer and have a few laughs. However I have managed to get my players to 'come out of their shells' a bit. Here are a few of the tactics I found...

For us the RPG season started again at the end of September and we have been having weekly games. In our 4e D&D campaign (which I DM) the fallen are thus far: * a Shifter Wizard, who came back as a Revenant Wizard, as the resurrection spell was botched by a drunk slavic shaman (he was scouting...

I actually think the monsters not bothering with some abilities when the party is nearly defeated makes sense. After all, when the PCs are winning a fight and there's only a couple of weak enemies standing, the DM either calls the fight saying something like 'Unresponsive to your request of...

It is a good idea for the DM to have contingencies in place. For example, you are questing to help the ruler of the kingdom to defeat the incoming evil horde of necromancers. Once in a while when you are talking to him, he drops hints that some of his other agents managed to secure this...

As a general rule, resisting damage doesn't save you from the effects of the attack. You have to be resistant to the effect itself to ignore it. If by poisoned you mean that you were affected by ongoing 5 poison damage, even when you can resist it all I would still let it apply. Mechanically...

So, our group's 4ed campaign was supposed to end in June or thereabouts, but as everyone was busy with various personal events and with finishing the semester in uni, the final session was pushed back to until we started school again. Now, classes start again next week, and so I am planning to...

winged vikings (angelic wings) with awesome beards, axes and spears made of fire, lightning and ice.

I think I have it now. The 'old' golems are toxic to the environment, which is why they were sealed away underground beneath a temple - the entrance being only recently discovered, when the church was disbanded and the temple heavily damaged (the plot of our previous adventure in the city)...

I think that is a great idea, I also think that it is a good way to input our Genasi more personally (he hasn't really had much time in the spotlight so far) to the campaign - probably in such a way that part of the control system was thrown into the chemical substance to ensure that they...

In my current campaign the players are currently in a city that instead of regular City Guard has statues worked into the architecture of nearly every building - the statues are actually golems that are activated when any wrongdoing takes place, thus the streets are kept safe by everyone being...

Seems really awesome, but what happens when the players actions (and the logics of the world) lead to a session that (d)evolves into a hack'n'slash? I mean, if the PCs are actively looking for fights and the opponents giving up or fleeing isn't exactly feasible at that point - since you only do...

i guess i should read the article thoroughly next time before i comment :) thanks for clearing it up guys

wasnt the blackguard supposed to be a class that uses temporary hitpoints (that he gains from class features or abilities) to power stronger abilities?

or they will THINK they defeated the goblin army, which actually broke off to do something much more scary than attacking the castle ;)

i dont understand very clearly, do all encounters consist of only one type of enemy? while an encounter with one type of monster might be interesting enough, i feel that using multiple different monsters that compliment each other is a good way to make the encounters (and adventure) more fun and...