I have in two:
"A Dish Best Served Undead" and
"Big Tom and the Little Orphans"
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There's always the ole' "that's not in this campaign" solution.
My vote goes til B. If you make one month an issue about older campaigns, but then cover all of the big ones in one issue, what do you do the year after that? As an annual tradition, your campaigns would eventually be so poorly known that nobody that particular issue of the magazine. It's gotta be B.
That's good stuff G to the Three.
Dark Sun. Some would find it ironic that I frowned on this setting when I lived in New Mexico, but look on it wistfully now that I live in freezing Minnesota. Yeah, Dark Sun...*sigh*
Flushmaster, I fell outta my chair laughing, too. Good stuff.
One of my players has two characters; one a teifling abjurer, the other an aasimar paladin that happens to be hunting the tiefling. Based on who shows up, he'll run one or the other depending on party needs. Perhaps I'll use the polymorph in the near future rather than making him choose one or the other....*smirk*. Good idea.
My fiance's rogue is attempting to 'earn' enough money to buy her parents back from the local mafia/theives' guild. What the party doesn't realize is that the guild's led by a sorcerous goblin with a taste for gnomes that actually killed another PCs family. I love tieing multiple storylines together. They'll be rather surprised when he busts out the Dragon Breath draconic feats from Complete Arcane.
Or when glamors are evilized.
Yeah, party vote resulted in seperate DMs running seperate campaigns, both of which are starting at level 1. That way we've got the new game excitement going again. Longest session I ever played was the summer before my last year of high school. We holed up in a house and played for a full 7 days straight. Naps were had when necessary, as were showers and meals, but the girlfriends came and went several times, failing each time to get us out of the house. If I remember right, our characters jumped from level 1 to level 14. *sigh* I miss the days before bills happened.
I usually place the speakers by the front door of the apartment with the sound at a moderate volume. It's purely for the benefit of the neighbors... drowns the sounds that they'll think are ritualistic killing of small farm animals, when in fact, it's just the party fighting a pack of goblins or fiendish dire weasels.
Now THAT is an ideal gaming day Mr. Hart.
We started out like that Boredflak. I consistantly got off work at 5ish, so everyone would meet at my house and we'd start at 6. Then my girlfriend began getting scheduled until 8:30. Then I did once as well, and everyone took that to mean it was OK to work on game night, so now if we start at 9 we're lucky. :( It's hard not to get huffy over it, but when you consider the waiters in the group can make over $200 in tips on a Friday night, you can't blame them overly much.
As with 'cwslyclgh', I've noticed at Dragon I consistantly get two weeks between when I submit a proposal and when they say "No." Maybe it's different with a "yes" or "edit" article, but thus far, 3 for 3 have been two weeks and a "no." Keep on trucking, that's what I say.
I'll let you guys know how the anthropomorphic hawk-man blighter I'm pitting the PCs against next month works out.
On average, how long does everyone get to play, how often in a week, and how much of the "game night" is spent playing vs. BSing? We play every Friday night, an average of 4 hours (dependant upon work schedules), and unfortunately probably BS about an hour away during game time. We BS about 1.5 to 2 hours before we start playing. Doesn't help that despite our best efforts, Friday night is the only night most of us see each other. In that time, thus far we've managed one major encounter each night. Needless to say, some adventures take a loooooooooong time. We just wrapped up one that started two weeks before Thanksgiving. We failed to save the world. Time for a little behind the scenes Deus ex Machina.
We've been living off of Chuul sauteed in butter kelp for a week or so game time. Mighty tasty.
The PCs are hired/asked/conjoled into escorting a "security wagon" full of dangerous magic to a location for appropriate storage. One of the items (or multiple items for maximum chaos) is intelligent, with a special purpose to corrupt all good. It begins with one of the PCs, telepathically of course. Can the PC withstand the item's call, and if not, will the PC turn against the entire party to free the item, or can the PC convince the other party members to grab some of the loot and make a run for it?
Being in an environment that gives us full access to every D&D tome in print *at work* but not during play, our DM frequently encounters the "Three Days Later" rules consultations. I feel for you Mr. Mona.
Goblins mounted on Giant Wasps.
Is there a way to find out which editors review which section's query letters? It seems to me that 'Dear Mike' or 'Dear Mr. McArtor' are better salutations than 'Dear editor'.
The PCs reach a city/village/what have you just in time to experience said community's harvest festival. While they're partaking in revilry and contests of strength/archery skill/illusory showmanship/etc, a selection of valuable items are stolen from their rooms in the inn. For added flavor, a patron in a neighboring room is also missing items, but saw one of the PCs leaving his room. A doppleganger, one of the traveling actors here for the celebration, or one of the many skilled illusionists visiting? Or maybe the PC did make off with a few items from the inn. That's up to the PCs to discover.
To get me hooked back in 2nd edition, my DM hooked me up with a lvl 20 1/2 elf Fighter/Mage/Cleric. We played two long sessions, then I made a 1st level elven ranger/druid. I died fifteen minutes off the press. Eaten by a bear I tried to bully around no less.
Playing tag once in the woods, at the wee age of 7, I blindly ran through a web containing a spider akin to the dreaded banana spider. Unfortunately, I ran through the spider, which attached itself to my face. Thing was as big as my face. Trust me when I say to you, spiders are indeed evil. *shudder*
What's hampered us the most in our present adventure is monsters with PC classes AND stout armor, combined with swallow whole in a small room. Fighting a tendriculous on a 40' by 15' ledge overlooking a lake is just nasty nasty stuff. Put some ogres at the top of the cliff in splint mail with two handed morning starts and it's tough going. |