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Thanks YD...I'll take a look.

Try an issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. Its out of print. Try you public library periodicals section. They likely have print issues in the Library.

Hi all...

Way back in the late 1970's when I started playing AD&D 1.0, my Mom saw an article titled "That Damned Gnome" in some engineering magazine at work. It is an excellent article about roleplaying and D&D and was just great reading. I have been kicking myself for 25 years for losing the copy I had. Fruitless searches on the internet bring me here, to the home of gamers worldwide, hoping someone may have a copy. I would say it was printed after 1976 and before 1983.

If anyone knows of a copy, or a good place to search engineering magazine back issues, please let me know. Thanks,

Steve
Screamingeagle_101@yahoo.com

Smuggler named Arumra, hangs out at Fatman's Feedbag, owns a fishing boat re-done to allow smuggling instead of fishing. Still has fishing eqpt and small space for catch, but most of space has been re-done to hide verboten cargo. Will transport passangers for 5 gp a head, if danger to him 15 gp per head. Transporting cargo costs differ depending on value of cargo, 15-30% of value is reasonable...to him.

My group used him to scout thistletop, then remembered that one of the PC's was a former pearl diver whose friend owns a fishing boat!

GeraintElberion wrote:

When my PCs headed to the glassworks they were shadowed by a gang of kids who copied them (toy bows, sticks tucked into belts like swords, waving arms about going "Kazam!", one even had a trinket from his parents shelf thst looked like a holy symbol and kept on doing his "serious face" to be like the party cleric).

They had a hard time shoo-ing the kids away, but were very glad to have kept them from the factory.

I'm so sealing this idea! Thanks

Every time I think I am doing okay as a DM, I read one of these forums and realize how far I have to go.

Any of you great DM's live in Miami so I can play in your game???

While I understand the frustration at meeting a monster that is difficult to overcome, I think that makes it more memorable and exciting.

On another tack, one of the first things I tell my PC's when I DM a campaign is that someties you are going to encounter things, or at least see things, that are out of your league in terms of killing.
I try to run my campaigns in a "realistic world" manner.
It is a living world, and monsters of high power travel around it the same way the PCs do. Just because you see a stone giant when you are level 3 doesn't mean that it is weakened or somehow a CR3 encounter. If everything you meet can be easily overcome, where is the adventure? Why bother playing? This, of course, is only my opinion, YMMV.

Is this module set in or near Xin-Shalast from Rise of Runelords Path? The reviewer seems to hint that it does, but I want to be sure before I purchase.

Thanks
Steve

Is this module set in or near the Xin-Shalast portion of the Rise of the Runelords Path?

The first review seems to indicate that it does, but I wnat to know for sure before purchasing.

Thanks
Steve