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Anyone have any ideas for a spooky Haloween adventure?

feeds@yuku.com (dok) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:13:23 GMT

Just like the title says. Odds are my players will want to game this Friday, and having something spooky/horror based might be fun.

alignment question for a cleric

feeds@yuku.com (Knowe Remorse) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:08:24 GMT

One of my PC's died in our last session and he came in with a brand new gun toting LN cleric of an iron god (technology, also LN). Anyway, during the opening events, the party is hit by a series of events (very minor spoilers of the banewarrens following), that are sparked by a mysterious figure that effects those who come in contact with him. (he is walking through the market and ends up triggering 4 or 5 different events (4-5 rounds apart) The effects are completely chaotic, and the...

A Pathfinder One-Shot

feeds@yuku.com (Randall Jhen) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:57:27 GMT

Greetings, all.

There's a chance that our regular Tuesday night game won't be running this week, since one of the players may be flying out of town to visit a sibling. I mentioned that if that happens, I'd be happy to run a Pathfinder (core only, to really exemplify the system) one-shot to give people a chance to try the new game out. So far, I've got three people definitely interested in it, and a fourth that will join us if she doesn't end up flying out with...

DM Quandries, I added a Wizard

feeds@yuku.com (SolissVL) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:23:45 GMT

Ok, well, I'll probably be asking more questions about how to deal with a dual-wand wielding gnome wizard with 8 Cha later (yeah, don't ask, I should have been more involved in that character creation).

The thing is, he's upset at the local gang-lord and he has the crazy idea that he can just launch a fireball in the gang-lord's house and that will be it.

So, YOU know that won't work. I know that won't work. Now, how can I mechanically make it...

3.0-3.5 DR conversion

feeds@yuku.com (SolissVL) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:15:12 GMT

Hmm, I ran into a bit of quandry last night. I'm making a half-iron golem warforged (long story) but, umm, according to the table in the MMII (3.0) he is going to have a DR25/+2 as a CR 10 or 11 (I forget which ATM).

So, my question is. How does that translate to 3.5 DR? The PCs had enough trouble with a demon that had DR 5. Heck, I'm not sure any of the PCs barring the warblade with some insane maneuver could even overcome that besides a confirmed critical.

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Skeletons that later become intelligent

feeds@yuku.com (Dan C Davis) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:05:22 GMT

I've got a 4 HD skum skeleton that started off as a mindless skeleton. But with the application of the bloodstained template he now has an Int of 4 (2 from the template, +2 for a helm of intellect).

Does he now gain retroactive skill points and feats for his 4 HD, or does he only get them going forward?

Running a Sandbox Game

feeds@yuku.com (JediSoth) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:59:53 GMT

It seems likely (though with my group, you never can tell) that my next game will actually end up being a sandbox game. It will likely not be D&D, but rather Aces & Eights.

What advice do you have on running a sandbox game? In each of the last several D&D games I've run, there are always a few players who create characters with their own agendas that really have little reason to adventure with the rest of the group. Instead of trying to corral my players into working...

Set Pieces

feeds@yuku.com (mahogani) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:06:34 GMT

For my upcoming 10th level Heroic BBEG blow out adventure, I want to have some interesting and different terrains. The players have to go into the ruins of the Bael Turath capital city to stop the BBEG. The BBEG is the head cleric of a cult who worships the goddess of assassins (and the goddess is also secretly from the Far Realms). They have an alliance with the Shadar Kai(who in my homebrew are not followers of the Raven Queen), plus they also have some aberrant allies.

While...

Climactic Battle, need help

feeds@yuku.com (Manofdusk) — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:55:56 GMT

Alright, so some of you may remember me posting a thread about an adventure in a volcano a while back.

http://okayyourturn.yuku.com/topic/17081

It essentially went something like this:

They reach the volcano and are ambushed by a Skirr (one of the PCs has wings and disturbed the thing). They kill the skirr and are attacked by salamanders. One of the PCs tries to negotiate with them using...

Brainstorming Help

feeds@yuku.com (durendal) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:57:53 GMT

Hey all,
I'd like to steal your brains for some storming, for the next arc of my campaign.

In the new arc, the players are trying to prevent a powerful demon, named Atozcal, from being released from his prison - he's currently bound as a statue. Where his is imprisoned is secret - even the person/s trying to free him doesn't know where, but here's the clues that both the party, and their opposition have:

- the Atozcal was defeated ~300 years ago...

DMing Styles

feeds@yuku.com (D3adH3r0) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:36:12 GMT

I've been thinking a lot about differing DMing styles, as DM that I trade-off with and I often butt heads whenever one or the other is DMing. In my mind, there's 3 major styles:

- CHARACTER-BASED - The game revolves, totally, about the PCs. Stories grow organically from their actions/comments and the DMing is mostly seat-of-the-pants reactionary with short-term plotting only. Stuff that happens offscreen will eventually tie back to the PCs. Think Amber.
-...

Serious attempts at cultural anachronism (glam-rock elves, metalhead orcs, etc)

feeds@yuku.com (Hydromaster113) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:24:38 GMT

So, I'm working on a setting where barbarian/bards wield battleaxes that double as electric guitars, half-elves are spikey-haired pill-popping party animals, and "mosh" is an orkish word for friendly violence.

The tricky part is that this isn't intended as a parrody.
I'm taking a stab at a slightly different kind of fantasy, one that keeps the physical trappings of medieval fantasy but tries to shed the usual (often awkward) attempts at...

Killer DMs: Evil Geniuses Welcome!

feeds@yuku.com (Useless Trivia Man) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:10:43 GMT

I was in a gaming discussion t'other day and one of my favorite Evil DM Ideas came up: The PCs were traveling across the sea on a ship, and said ship was attacked by a pair of angry clerics. The two simultaneously cast fog cloud and blade barrier right in front of the ship. The cloud hid the

Making undead encounters interesting?

feeds@yuku.com (Luther) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:49:18 GMT

Hey everyone, I've DM'd for about three years now and I've lurked on this board for about a month now. I've found a lot of useful stuff on it and figure it's time to start posting.

Well, I've recently been asked to run an undead themed campaign. While I don't have to use exclusively the old throwback of walking dead and such... it should be the main focus. My question is thus: are there any ways to make the encounters with them more interesting than...

Gelugon ice devil abilities level adjustment

feeds@yuku.com (Dan C Davis) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:29:29 GMT

I'm looking for a level adjustment for the following gelugon devil abilities. I'm hoping it's only +1 for all three, but I thought I would get some feedback.

Fear Aura (Su): An ice devil can radiate a 10-foot-radius fear aura as a free action. A creature in the area must succeed on a Will save or be affected as though by a fear spell (caster level 13th). A creature that successfully saves cannot be affected again by the same ice...

Request for Advice on DM'ing your kids

feeds@yuku.com (Marc Rougier) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:40:25 GMT

This post is to ask for stories and insight into running a campaign for your kids. Mine kids are getting interested in D&D because they see me (dad) playing. They may yet be a bit young (9 & 7). I remember getting started with the boxed set back in the early 80's at around age 12 or so.

So - what is the experience out there?
- how old / mature before they are ready
- types of adventures
- lessons learned
- use of minitures, ect...

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Restricting Replacement PCs?

feeds@yuku.com (PaladinTodd) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:37:43 GMT

We're near the end of the campaign - two big fights left - and one of the PCs has died (no chance to bring them back). The player wants to bring in a brand-spanking new PC as a replacement.

I find that very unsatisfying from a story perspective. I don't want some new, anonymous guy showing up at the very end. The game world isn't populated with a bunch of high-level people so a new high-level guy seems out of place. I'd find the story more interesting if the player...

The Ninefold Temptations of Hell (Need help for two temptations)

feeds@yuku.com (dok) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:32:49 GMT

OK, so my players are in The Maze, one of the worlds described in Beyond Countless Doorways (plug) and I'm going to offer them the choice of going through the "Threefold Gate", which is in fact 9 'tests' echoing the nine circles of hell. I've got most of them nailed down, but two are giving me real grief...

The first gate is on a war-torn battlefield, pocked with huge craters. (Avernus to the knowledgable) A press gang of devils is forming up to...

Good vs. Good

feeds@yuku.com (JayMOTU) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:55:23 GMT

I want to run an adventure where the group of good guys, led by the party paladin go on a quest to meet a group of elven angels in arvandor. They will travel through a portal in an ancient water temple to a location near the River Oceanus. They will travel Elysium to find a guide/ transport through the beast lands and into the Olympic glades (one of which is Arvandor).

I need help sculping encounters that will make the journey challenging and interesting but the planes they will be...

Always the DM, never the Player.

feeds@yuku.com (lol) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:42:35 GMT

I've been playing D&D, across 3 editions, for about 10 years now. In all that time, I've been able to play an actual PC maybe twice, and I think I'm finally at my wit's end. My gaming group absolutely loves playing D&D; in-between sessions they're always coming up and asking when we'll be ready to play again, and talking to me about their characters, and discussing story arcs and how they can be more involved. So I know there's a level of interest...