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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6147651" data-attributes="member: 6669384">I wrote up some of our earlier adventures in this campaign in the Story Hour forum.  They're down a few pages, but look for Curse of Darkness.In the prologue I lay out the game world, it's limits, some house rules, and the over all premises and goals.Three of those special limits/rules that come into play here are:1) No Teleport, Greater Teleport, etc.  Instant transportation becomes too casual after a while, and removes the "overland encounter" part of play.2) No Raise Dead, Resurrection, or True Resurrection in this game world. You want to bring someone back, you need to take a trip to the Land of the Dead, find their spirit, and escort them out.  (We fudged this one with , Reincarnation, Revivification, and Revenence.)3) The gods are unavailable to answer question, they're off fighting a war.  No Divination class spells that call upon a deity or high end divine source for information.  The best available is Augry.  So, in a game where we're limited to mortal information sources, we've tended to stack skill points into Gather Information and the various Knowledge skills.When a DM essentially bans the use of those skills, we're flying blind.  There is no alternative information source.Now one problem I have, personally, is that I'm a fairly dominant personality at that table.  I have to be very careful what I say, lest my thought or suggestion be taken with too much weight, and I end up dictating to other players, or the DM.  In essence, I bite my tongue a lot.I mean, it's no fun if there's no challenge, and with this group I'm kind of the definition of "undue influence".  I just have to be very careful what influence I have, and that means I can't gripe too loud.  Sometimes, I can't gripe at all.  (I've been known to fluster a DM by humming "Wabash Cannonball" when he was on one of his railroad plot lines.)</blockquote>

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