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I was reading the entertaining Alexandrian articles (who pioneered the Three Clue Rule), and he has several articles about situations where his players unexpectedly upset his campaign plot ideas(The Alexandrian - Tales from the Table and The Alexandrian - Tales from the Table). Either through a...

In our most recent campaign, our characters are working their way through the City Watch Academy with hopes of joining the prestigious Thunder Hawks platoon. Having almost made it through the grueling basic training program, we decided to call our group "the Rock Hawks," in homage to the...

What, in your opinion, is an "actual, factual deficit" of ANY gaming system? I'd truly like to know an example of how you qualify this. We're discussing systems for role-playing gaming based 90% around peoples' imaginations. If you require numbers behind any argument someone makes, then we can...

Some things that I don't think 4E does well (and some these may have been discussed before): 1. Resource Management. Nearly everything a character can do is limited to a certain number of times/day. Encounter powers, daily powers, healing surges, second winds, action points, utility powers...

I'm currently playing a Halfling CHA paladin in a home game that's working out very well. We're right about level 15. Halflings are a race that many people overlook for pretty much everything, but they actually have excellent defender-ish qualities: - +2 AC vs. opportunity attacks to make...

A couple of ideas that I've used, or seen used: 1) A crowded tavern on the roadside to Winterhaven at which the PCs independently stop for the evening; coincidentally, only one table of 4 (or 6 or whatever) chairs is available and they are forced to sit together if they desire a hot meal and a...

Have you thought of using the background of the weapon as a possible plot device later on? Imbedded within the hammer is one of three shards of a powerful artifact. If the artifact were every assembled, it would grant terrible power to its wielder. The hammer was once the weapon of a great...

Guys. GUYS. RPGs are games. I'm pretty amazed at how many people in this thread are reaching for the torches and pitchforks at the thought of a single fudged dice roll. Presumably the people you play with are your friends, or at least human beings you don't mind spending 4 hours a week with...

aboyd, if your players are as wantonly destructive as you say, how do you motivate them? If their only driving forces are murdering innocents and plundering loot, then I would claim that nothing can be done to protect "questgiver NPCs," other than to make them powerful enough to not be murdered...

I think I'm more in PC's boat (hah!) with my group of players. Our folks play DnD in order to roleplay generally good guys, not psychopaths. Not placing a value judgment on either viewpoint of course. :) I just think as a DM I would get very easily frustrated with having to babysit my players...

Do you guys really GM for groups of people where a murderous-PC-rampage is a real possibility? Maybe it's just my group of players, but they're in the game to advance the story too. They're not above using violence and intimidation where it's appropriate of course, but a random burst of...

This turned out to be REALLY long because it's one of my favorite fights in all my years of DnD – more of a story hour, really! It takes place at reasonably high-level 3rd edition and so contains a little 3E jargon that's relevant to the combat. The Setup: At the climax of a long campaign, our...