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gnunn
in Game Prep: NPC Spells? October 2010

Indeed, that is excellent advice. I do typically try to describe spells by their effects rather than their names, which is entertaining because my players often speculate out loud about what just happened. e.g. last week, when fleeing a nightwing, I…
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in Props -Coins or Tokens October 2010

I like the "method of building tokens":http://newbiedm.com/2008/11/22/newbiedm-tutorial-counters-tokens-or-pogs/ that Newbie DM uses. In my game, I've used it to create death pogs for tracking where bodies fall, and mount pogs to make it easier for …
gnunn
in Run for cover game mechanic help October 2010

Okay, so things played out pretty well last night... The group did take their sweet time entering the room serving as the gateway before the run, for which they had to be penalized. They wanted to let the paladin recover from the Touch of Fatigu…
gnunn
in Run for cover game mechanic help October 2010

I think the Skittles idea is friggin' brilliant! However, I think I managed to come up with a system that should work, and which seems similar to your 2nd method. First, there are two preset waypoints, a sewer exit followed by a ruined section…
gnunn
in What to do when a PC becomes possessed... September 2010

One of the best parts was when the monk finally filled the rest of the party in on the whole story, the rest of the players realized that this had been a simmering subplot developing in secret between myself and the monk's player for months! The mon…
gnunn
in In game character preparedness September 2010

I've actually run into a bit of an opposite problem - Overpreparing for monsters that don't really warrant prep. My players are about to raid a guild run by vampires whom the players have seen keeping pet rust monsters. My greedy players are so worr…
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in What to do when a PC becomes possessed... September 2010 edited September 2010

Okay, I just wanted to throw in an update that the other shoe dropped on the character's possession in my campaign last night. A single D20 roll completely altered my planned course for the evening and it was GLORIOUS! What happened: Party goes …
gnunn
in World Creation Help August 2010 edited August 2010

I'm at work at the moment, and so away from my books... I think the Shadow Template is in the Manual of the Planes, but I would have to check when I get home. I know I JUST saw it, because I've got some shadow plane adventuring in the works for my g…
gnunn
in Population August 2010

Check out this handy-dandy "generator":http://www.rpglibrary.org/utils/meddemog/ that can help do just that! Also, "Medieval Demographics Made Easy,":http://www.io.com/~sjohn/demog.htm which is the source material behind the generator. I've found…
gnunn
in Obsidian Portal Podcast... August 2010

Yeah, I agree with Dusk about the rotating cast of crazies. It would also allow commentators some extra time to write up their next session between podcasts. Also, I don't know if any of you are as hoity-toity as me and listen to NPR... but for a…
gnunn
in World Creation Help August 2010

As to the Shinigami... I don't think you should worry too much about whether their powers match the description from Bleach EXACTLY... What mechanic are you basing the system off of? If I were going to create them in 3.5 I would give the hollows the…
gnunn
in Obsidian Portal Podcast... August 2010

Well, if you have 7 people talking, which is a LOT, you could put together a 15 minute podcast with each person doing a 2 minute segment. However, 2 minutes goes by really fast in public speaking, so you might want to consider having a couple longer…
gnunn
in Obsidian Portal Podcast... August 2010

Micah has some very good advice. Definitely start off slower than you think you will want to go... but stick to whatever schedule you pick! If you post new episodes on Fridays, make sure they go live on time. Having a predictable schedule will help …
gnunn
in Worse Monsters in Dungeons and Dragons August 2010

Beat you to the link Dusk... I suggest you take improved initiative next level *snorts and sips delicately from his steaming mug of Mountain Dew* Also, re Rust Monsters: I am currently ratcheting up the neuroses of my players by pitting them aga…
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in Worse Monsters in Dungeons and Dragons August 2010

I actually put my players up against a pair of Raggamoffyns. They cursed my name for making them fight animated undergarments. Also, see "this article":http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article73.htm for more ideas.
gnunn
in FACEPALM!: Learning from your mistakes August 2010

Ugh! I clearly haven't learned my lesson. Yesterday, I was working on a past-due adventure recap that has been thwarting me for weeks. I had just finished, hit the schmancy preview feature, but then, rather that closing the preview, I hit my browser…
gnunn
in How-to: Custom Wiki Sidebar August 2010

Anev, I love the color scheme and the transparency you've added to the sidebar! It ties the pages together really well!
gnunn
in What to do when a PC becomes possessed... August 2010

I have a slowly emerging case of this very thing in my current campaign. One of the PCs is possessed by a demon, but is only vaguely aware of it. He has begun having dreams of fighting a mad, foaming orc while the demon's voice asks him to kill and …
gnunn
in One-off Design July 2010

Oh, I'm not going to Vegas... most of my regular group is. I have no desire to go to Vegas in the middle of August. I'll be running my one-off from sunny Seattle. Also, thank you to everyone for the advice! I'm starting to get excited about my li…
gnunn
in One-off Design July 2010

Yeah, I'm expecting 4 or 5 players, but have decided to create a pre-gen for every class in the PHB, which will leave over half of them unpicked. My plan for the extras is to use them in the event of a PC's death before the end of the adventure. If …
gnunn
in Dealing with Dangerous Encounters & PC Death in Your Campaign July 2010

I'll admit that I have pulled punches in my current campaign, though I did it more often early on because most of my players were new to the game. Now that they have some experience under their belts, I have started trying to incorporate tougher and…
gnunn
in Emissary, cool stuff... July 2010

STUUUUUUFFF! *that's my productive two-cents*
gnunn
in Textile help... July 2010

Persephone As far as I know this site does support the background attribute. I use it all the time in my own tables. It looks like the code examples you used include an extra set of parenthesis around the attribute, which is probably what is brea…
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in FACEPALM!: Learning from your mistakes July 2010

Last night I had a mild facepalm moment that I think only I really noticed. I was really crunched for time planning this week's session, and so I decided to do the super quick-quick prep. I printed stat-blocks for all the NPCs likely to show up in t…
gnunn
in FACEPALM!: Learning from your mistakes July 2010

Heyokah, I think the mattress idea is pretty genius and in my campaign, that sort of thinking would be rewarded! Come to think of it, one of my players did use a mattress as a weapon of sorts during one session. A necrotic cyst (basically a senti…
gnunn
in HTML July 2010

"This":http://redcloth.org/hobix.com/textile/ is my standard go-to reference for Textile formatting, mostly because I use a LOT of tables, and the table section for that particular site is more extensive than other online Textile references I've fou…
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in No Space, but I Should Have Plenty June 2010

I get this error occasionally too. I think it may happen if the individual file size is larger than the uploader can handle... but I don't recall seeing any specific file size limit mentioned.
gnunn
in Textile help... June 2010

I just use the work-around of making rows with alternating shading. If you do that, you just have to put the formatting at the beginning of each row... or even each shaded row, if your base background is white. | cell | cell | cell | {background…
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in Armchair Titans: Podcast June 2010

So, they finally have an actually functional fledgling website now with player and character bios. While I've enjoyed what I have heard from Team Good, I'm really looking forward to Team Evil's podcasts. I think Ribbert Drowning Jr. the Bullywug…
gnunn
in Depth June 2010

BrokenClock... my game sort of has an oil spill-esque plot that has been going for about a year. The players are tasked with stopping a mysterious spreading blight that is spoiling the land, and turning creatures undead. They temporarily slowed its …

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