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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 3665343" data-attributes="member: 18549"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> I'm almost always the DM</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Four or five players, not counting DM.  1 character per player</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Attempts are made to follow wealth by level guidelines and XP table</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Magic item availability is determined using a fairly simple random system</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> All the books I own (except BOVD) are freely available except Unearthed Arcana and Spell Compendium, which are used on an "ask me" basis.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Action points often used, death at negative Con, a few other idiosyncratic rules</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Negative levels are less "sticky", ability scores cannot be reduced to less than 1</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> We tend to run adventure paths or other published adventures, because I'm too busy to homebrew.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Things tend to break down around levels 7 - 10, for reasons not connected to the game, and we start over with new players.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> PC death not uncommon, but action points make it less likely.  In the Age of Worms, we still averaged 1 death per session for a while.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> My players are generally obsessive about covering all the bases, so we generally have the 4 roles in one way or another.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> I shoot for a good mix of action and character development.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> I loves me some dungeon crawls, and have since my 1st ed. days.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Not currently any female players</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> I play with whomever I can manage to find, assuming they're not disruptive.  It's hard enough just finding players, much less finding well-adjusted, experienced players.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Sessions are usually 6 hours, although sometimes we go late.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> We shoot for weekly sessions</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> We play at whatever location we can arrange.  Many of my players live out in the suburbs, and are in town for school or work, and only one of them has a local apartment, so it's often at his place.  Otherwise, we scrounge for rooms around the university.</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>

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