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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5737001" data-attributes="member: 6669384">My table currently has six people at it, five of whom DM in rotation. Our normal complement is eight, but we lost a couple to the vagueries of life.  When we had eight, seven of us DMd.  (We have one player, a very nice lady, who just doesn't like to DM.  It isn't her thing.)Our format is that we lay out a long term campaign goal, the McGuffin of the world, if you will.  Each player makes up their character, and the part of the world they come from.  This is the part that they run as a DM.Unclaimed areas exist, of course, and are free for anyone to mess with, but it would be bad form for one DM to destroy a town of kill off a major NPC that some other DM had long term plans for.In laying out our world this way, we also agree on the house rules.  The person who comes up with the campaign concept usually proposes those rules, but everybody gets to add their input, and it's all agreed upon before the game begins.When any one person has the DM's chair, they get to decide on how Rule Zero is applied.  As a safety net, however, at the end of a DM's story arc the rest of the group may choose to vote that it simply never happened.  It was a dream.  We've only had to do that twice in the last 15 years or so, but it's there just in case.One player (new to the group) decided that in his land there were robots, laser rifles, and a Death Star floating over the major city.  His land was also so remote that it took over a year to get there from anyplace else, across a wide, nearly impassible desert.  And no, Teleport and the like was impossible into or out of his realm.We cast a group Dispel BS on that one preemptively.  The player didn't stick around long after that.  It turns out he was trying to terminate the campaign before it got started so we'd play something else.Our common house rules are:Casters get ability bonus to zero levels spell slots to equal their 1st level bonus.Characters die when their hit points reach the negative of their CON, instead of always at -10.Cure spells don't always use D8.  Instead they use the hit dice size of the target creature.We often nerf Teleport and Greater Teleport, because we prefer not to have overland encounters removed from the game at higher levels.In our last two campaigns, Raise Dead and it's bigger brothers were removed from the game.  Instead, to raise someone you had to go to "The Land of the Dead", find their spirit and return to the mortal world.  Shadow Walk and Plane Shift work for this, and it makes bringing someone back an adventure in and of itself.Currently we're experimenting with an alternative progression for iterative attacks.  Instead of happening every 5 BAB ranks, extra attacks occur every 4 BAB, with a -4 cumulative penalty instead of the usual -5.  The idea was to give a subtle bump to combat classes, to help counter the power runaway of the spell casters as levels progress.  It seems to be working out pretty well, with essentially no entangling complications.  (i.e. it doesn't seem to be breaking anything.)</blockquote>

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