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Planning Help: Dealing with a Dragon's Horde
April 2011
I'll give you guys the statistics for the "Gentleman's defense" a magic parasol that can become either a rapier or a light shield as a swift action.
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Planning Help: Dealing with a Dragon's Horde
April 2011
Regarding the likely bargaining with the gnomes. One thing I realized I could likely do is to just describe the gold and jewels as too numerous to count on the spot, and have the bargaining session with the gnomes consist of haggling over the approx…
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Planning Help: Dealing with a Dragon's Horde
April 2011
Femme, I think you have touched upon a couple things that might be part of my challenge. I think I started falling behind early on in the game when I accidentally gave the group's paladin a sword that was too powerful for a level 4 character. (I did…
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Planning Help: Dealing with a Dragon's Horde
April 2011
Yeah, my group has sort of a weird dichotomy about their loot. They will often spend it in very generous ways... (e.g. when they inherited their keep, they used a bunch of their startup money to throw a party for the nearby villagers as an expressio…
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XP Tracker for Download
April 2011
Okay, I updated the URL... Try it now.
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New to Everything
April 2011
Look at Duskreign the D&D matchmaker! also, welcome Miguel!
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Time management... my eternal foe.
April 2011
Gaaran, This will probably do the opposite of help you with your time management challenges, but one thing I did, which I felt really helped my redesign was to pick a unified color palette. In my case, it was pretty simplistic, I ended up going w…
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Gamma World on short notice!
April 2011
Rase, That is exactly what I relied on... at least for all the roleplaying. I pulled NPC names, rolls and personalities out of my butt and just went with it.
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Time management... my eternal foe.
April 2011
edited April 2011
One thing I set in place for myself this past weekend was to develop page templates. I took the code from a completed OP "section":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/the-westerlands/wikis/factions page, and set another up for a sub-page (a coupl…
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Gamma World on short notice!
April 2011
It actually went really well considering I had only run through character creation and read the intro adventure once, last November & had no time to review after I got home. Honestly, the hardest part was getting the characters made up. I was…
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Exotic Weapons and proficiencies in D&D
April 2011
So, here's what I'm thinking: I still plan for there to be a penalty associated with using the crossbow while unproficient, but that penalty wont be for attacking with it. Rather, I was thinking perhaps some sort of skill check required in order…
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Creating Interactive Maps
April 2011
What sort of templates do you want? If you want the code that will let you add a map to your wiki, it's posted at the beginning of the thread. If you want the actual technique used for drawing the map, I recommend you check out "The Cartographers' G…
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Exotic Weapons and proficiencies in D&D
April 2011
Yeah, I am already leaning intuitively in the direction everyone is suggesting. The subject comes up now because I'm currently populating a dragon's horde, which I want to include at least one "big ticket" item for each of my PCs. I did some number …
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Time management... my eternal foe.
April 2011
Oh boy do I feel you on this one Dusk! Maybe it doesn't help, but perhaps you should think of your problem as "good time management" after all, you seem to be putting your focus into the actual sessions you are running instead of the site -which …
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how do you balance between computer and notes
March 2011
I agree, Evernote is a fantastic tool, and I use it quite a bit, but for different purposes. The main advantage I see to OP as an archive site is the way the wiki formatting works. Once you have written a page on, say "The black bogs of noor," l…
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how do you balance between computer and notes
March 2011
I would like to qualify my last comment, because there are still parts of my gaming experience that I find are far better to track using a computer... namely, remembering the details of a massive homebrew world that has been building up around my ga…
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how do you balance between computer and notes
March 2011
Yeah, one of the counterintuitive things that I've noticed about tabletop RPGs is that often, the low-tech approach proves to be more efficient. For example, I used to track my party's initiative using a complex tracking document I developed in Exce…
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Ned help with NPC
March 2011
I like the idea of him as a former adventurer. If you feel up to it, I think it might be fun to play him as a batty old prospector type who just turns up at the strangest times. If I were going to run him this way, I would set up any encounters with…
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how do you balance between computer and notes
March 2011
I typically put my NPCs and encounters on OP after they have appeared in game. I view the Portal as more of an archive so that I can pull up information down the line that might otherwise have been lost or forgotten rather than as a tool for immedia…
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how do you balance between computer and notes
March 2011
So, currently, when I am brainstorming a session, I jot notes down in Evernote when I am still not sure exactly how the adventure will be structured. Once I have nailed it down to something like: The party will go to an elven ruin that is inhabited …
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how do you balance between computer and notes
March 2011
I've bounced all over the place in my management systems. I started my first campaign a little over 2 years ago, and it's still going. When I first started, I tended to lean more towards digital prep. I used various mixes of Excel, Word, One Note…
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Retiring PCs without breaking your game
March 2011
Thanks for all the suggestions everyone! I'm still mulling over what to do, but many of my continuing players recommended solutions very similar to the ones brought up here. A couple seemed particularly interested in a "mysterious disappearance" whi…
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Retiring PCs without breaking your game
March 2011
No, it's not. I came up with the term entirely independently. This might be blasphemy to admit around these parts, but I actually did not enjoy the first Dragon Age game and put it down part way into the section in the swamp immediately after meetin…
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Retiring PCs without breaking your game
March 2011
As to the blight: I used the rules for taint from Heroes of Horror, but changed the name to "blight" because my super-mature players couldn't stop giggling when I said "taint". Basically, it rots the land and causes living creatures to either go mad…
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Retiring PCs without breaking your game
March 2011
Right now, I am thinking about restructuring/streamlining the final act of this uber-adventure a bit in hopes that it will provide a solution. There are currently two main things driving the adventure. 1. There is a blight spreading across the ki…
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Retiring PCs without breaking your game
March 2011
That is indeed an added aspect of this challenge. There is still a chance that she could come back. The reason I kept her on as an NPC during this last adventure was because we all thought her hiatus would only be for the past quarter. If I had know…
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How to whip up a planned/ unplanned session in no time
March 2011
So, I implemented my time management strategy last week, and it seemed to work pretty well. As to the question of breaks & food: Our game nights typically begin with dinner from 6-6:30 as people are arriving, so everyone usually has a chanc…
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How Do I Run a Mind Flayer Interrogation?
March 2011
...now with pink brains! juicy. pink. brains.
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Mass Combat, Avatar Last Airbender Campaign
March 2011
Why thank you! I aim to please. I think stealth mission, and in particular, jailbreak encounters are a lot of fun. You might consider adding a secondary objective that could pop up once the PCs get to the POW they are looking for. Perhaps he had …
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Mass Combat, Avatar Last Airbender Campaign
March 2011
So, infiltration missions like this one fall really easily into the category of "easy to doable if the party uses smart planning and exploits the enemy's weak points, but far more challenging if they dont" When I plan something of this sort, I us…
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