Cannan McKlugh's page

The perfect DM should also:

...work only one full time job.
...use 4 to 6 hours every week to ready the monthly game.
...play Living Greyhawk.
...and have really fancy session records to hand out.

We can only pray that Dungeon puts something for a "Proof of Adventure Completion" in their writer's guidelines. Its nice to get a pretty paper declaring the adventure was completed and listing any special items in the sheet for future reference, purchase, creation.

How about my list of horrifieds? It much shorter. These are the ones I refused to run or was unfortunate enough to play as they were entirely too deadly or just plain silly:

DM: Monster Quest tops the list.
X1: Tomb of Horrors. Players simply couldn't get in.
Q?: Queen of the Demonweb Pits. Too cartoonie.
All those adventures with sex change characteristics.
LG: Turns of the Spiral. I fell asleep.
B3 & B4: No real direction for adolescent DMs.
Expedition to the Barrier Peaks. Has no place in D&D.
Needle. Has no place in D&D. Good for Rifts or GURPS Time Machine.

I would put others in here, but all of them are from Dungeon Magazine. There were some real strange ideas in the early magazines.

I agree! I would love to see the RPGA style certs, especially ones the DM could modify. I actually run a monthly get-together, use Dungeon adventures and make up certs for my tables. It would be great to have a cert already done that I just need to modify if needed.

Hey all. I have made RPGA style certs and we are testing out an unofficial forum in Nyrond of the Living Greyhawk. We have a generic one created since we launched Eberron into the usual LA Game Day venue with great success. I would be happy to offer our template to those who need it. We have it in excel and PDF. tonyg1717 at yahoo dot com.

I also would be interested in a CD. I would especially like to see the first 100 on CD and see another CD for each set of 100 issues in the future. Just put them in there as-was. Throw in a few more tidbits or stuff that didn't get off the cutting room floor as well. I love bloopers, honorable mentions, and free stuff. Did I mention I like bloopers?

Subscribers!

There really is no need to fret about subs being late. The post office handles magazines like they have no priority whatsoever. That is why you are likely to receive them on a day when your coupons and other rags do not come in the mail. Its more or less, as there is room available. You should see what happens to advertising in the mail not addressed to anyone. These can sit at the carrier's stall for a month before getting out to the street.--seasonal carrier.