response 1 of 44:

Jun 7 17:12 UTC 1995

be prepared to throw your entire adventure out the window at any time.
s**t happens

response 3 of 44:

Jun 7 19:55 UTC 1995

If your players like fighting dragons and the liking left and right, 
try Dragonlance.  Forgotten Realms takes a while to get used to
(I've tried), but it's worth it.  There's a lot of cool possibilities.

response 5 of 44:

Jun 11 16:02 UTC 1995

yes... if you want to play dragons... try dragonlane it's cool but if you want
ot be really elaborate try spelljammer or planescape, note not recomeded for
begining dms I also like Al-quadim.

response 7 of 44:

Aug 14 14:32 UTC 1995

Are you using D&D, or some other system?

response 9 of 44:

Oct 1 15:30 UTC 1995

I us AD&D 2nd. Ed. too. 
;done
ooops 

response 11 of 44:

Oct 2 00:22 UTC 1995

Rather than go straight from the hip, I'd recomend using one of the best simple
mechanic games (Over the Edge for modern games, and Everway for fantasy).  
Unlike many other games, where the systems get in the way of the roleplaying, 
these systems guilde the haracter creation process into intresting venues, 
while resolving disputes in elegant fashions once the game has begun.
        After all, why re-invent the wheel?

response 13 of 44:

Oct 3 01:09 UTC 1995

exaculty!

response 15 of 44:

Oct 8 00:18 UTC 1995

Hmmm, I know several parents who would invest in those to keep their teen
drivers from going too fast.....

response 17 of 44:

Mar 20 00:42 UTC 1996

Hmmm....I don't happen to remember where I posted asking for help with my
rakshasa vs. the players who have read the books and aren't discreet about
it, but here seems like as good a place as any....Here's how I prevented my
rakshasa from biting the dust first turn:  the PCs, as part of the adventure,
were supposed to rescue a 0-level NPC half-elf girl who had been kidnapped
during a goblinoid raid on a town (one of the campaign plots is a group of
rakshasa who have united the goblinoid tribes into a horde and are attacking
a couple of good nations...)  So they enter the goblin-held prison, move
through in a nice, methodical fashion, and their method just happens to mean
that the rakshasa ruhk (who is in charge of the prison) is the first major
encounter that they face, so they aren't weakened by the idgit goblinoids
very much before meeting him.  That was a major flaw in my adventure...So
they went into a well-decorated, large bedroom, where they found the girl
sitting on the bed, petting a cat, which was sitting in her lap...she was
charmed by the rakshasa...The rakshasa let them talk to her, until they
decided that she was probably under the influence of magic, then presented
his true form....the PCs dove for their crossbow and Bless spell, but the
girl said "Don't you dare hurt my poor little cat!" and shielded him with her
body ("girl is misleading, she was about 19 years of age), preventing the
crossbowman from getting a clear shot....The rakshasa cast Dispel Magic on
the bolt, and the PCs realized that they had only had one Bless spell.  So
then battle broke out....The dwarven two-handed-battle-axe-master took about
six swipes at the rakshasa before deciding to listen to the people who said
"You're really not going to hit him."  (BTW, the Charm was dipelled and the
girl removed before the melee started)  The PCs were taking a pretty good
beating, before the high-level fighter/mage NPC (who is just along for the
hell of it, and the adventure) decided that an earth elemental might help,
and this allowed them to win....Of course, the NPC then layed claim to a
large share of the rakshasa's magical items, then said "So long, I'm off to
play with my new toys..."

Anyways, that was pretty long, but I just thought that you might care to know
how I saved my rakshasa from knowledgable PCs...

response 19 of 44:

Mar 21 19:09 UTC 1996

Yeah, that too...I waited until their mage, one cleric, a pet monkey, and 
the dwarf were very close to dead (unconsious, using the "death's door"
rule) before he stepped in...He is rather chivalric, though, and he spent the f
first few rounds of combat making sure that the half-elf girl was safely
removed from the area of combat...

response 21 of 44:

Mar 22 03:07 UTC 1996

He also prevented the psychotic dwarf from beating up on helpless prisoners.
A group of kobolds and some bugbears that had surrendered, and some non-human
prisoners of the bugbears...No one else wanted him to beat them up, but they
didn't have the muscle to make him stop, so my elf resorted to a little bit
of tactful persuasion ("I said, don't touch them...I might accidentally call
back that earth elemental and lose control of him..."), which caused him to
stop...<g>

response 23 of 44:

Mar 22 23:12 UTC 1996

Hmm.  A bit too much of the "big hulking GM's character is more powerful than
any of the PC's chracters, so PCs aren't really important" for my taste in both
the combat (I would have made the game a contest of of wits, not solvable
through physica force) and the captured prisoners (I might have used one of a
myriad of tactics,  all along the theme of giving chracters/players enough rope
to hang themselves,  prehaps including making one of the prisoners a faery in
disguise , who could take the oprotunity to curse the offending character,
prehaps letting one of the victims get away, and come back as a rightous
avenger bent on wiping evil (read -- the dwarf) from the world, prehaps having
a society of assassins after the chraacter's hide, an prehaps letting the
chracter develop a bad rep that would precede him to towns, guilds, 
relatives...).
        I'mthe GM, so my PC is bigger than your PC doesn't cut it in my world.