Top new questions this week:

How To Divide Up Loot?

I've been GMing a very successful (Pathfinder) campaign for quite a few months now, but we've developed a bit of a problem I'm not sure how to resolve: loot distribution. None of my players are …

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asked by GM.A 28 votes answered by mxyzplk 39 votes

I'm fairly new to D&D but want to GM; where do I go from here?

I'm a 16-year-old male, and I have been interested in tabletop RPGs for a long time, especially D&D. I sorta dove into D&D really fast and hard by buying the Red box, Dungeon Master Kit, …

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asked by John 16 votes answered by SevenSidedDie 15 votes

How can I make my carrying mission interesting

Often my quest will boil down to Dungeons or Go to X because of Y to do Z (I may over simplify it but let's focus on that). Dungeons, I can make those as awesome as they can be. Awesome rooms with …

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asked by MrJinPengyou 13 votes answered by Kyle Willey 12 votes

How to handle the PCs within a large military?

On some level, this might actually be getting closer to RPGs’ roots: I want to try a campaign where the PCs are members of a larger military. There may be need for them to coordinate with other …

gm-techniques system-agnostic

asked by KRyan 12 votes answered by Kyle Willey 11 votes

How much greed is too much for a Chaotic Neutral character?

I have recently started GM-ing a new group of players, most of them are unexperienced. One of the players is a Chaotic Neutral Rogue. This description of Chaotic Neutral mentions that such character …

dungeons-and-dragons character alignment

asked by MMM 12 votes answered by KRyan 15 votes

How do I tell how long my adventure is going to be?

I'm a new DM starting a campaign I've written myself. I have a party of 4 players right now- three have been playing for years, one has never played before. My problem is I'm not sure how to tell how …

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asked by Bobby Carlos 11 votes answered by Joe 14 votes

Any free and private wiki-like services for campaign tracking?

In one of our long running (3+ years) campaigns we've wound up with a wealth of information the DM and players can't keep track of. All of us agree on introducing a wiki to track our information (a …

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asked by pblock 10 votes answered by Oblivious Sage 11 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

In D&D 4e What does a letter inside of brackets mean for a hit effect of an attack power?

For example, the Clerics level 1 power "brand of the sun" says the following: Hit: 1[W] + Wisdom modifier radiant damage. What does that mean? Does that mean 1xWeapon Damage + Wisdom modifier? …

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asked by cmcculloh 16 votes answered by Adriano Varoli Piazza 23 votes

Optimizing a D&D 3.5 Monk

I have complaints from someone in one of my groups that the 3.5 monk isn't good for anything offensive, only for defense and disarming (defenestration wasn't mentioned). My experience has only been …

dnd-3.5e optimization monk

asked by Ororo 21 votes answered by KRyan 26 votes

Can you answer these?

What are the "roots" of the Arts that a standard covenant library would have?

Covenants states: For nine of the Arts, there is a basic text that, over time, has come to be accepted as the preferred primer for a magus seeking the competence necessary to train an …

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asked by Brian Ballsun-Stanton 7 votes

What RPG systems are Variations of the Original Call of Cthulhu?

What RPG systems are there for a traditional Call of Cthulhu adventure (e.g. a basic premise of being investigators in 20th century/modern timeframe)? There is of course the Chaosium Call of Cthulhu …

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asked by Thunderforge 3 votes

What happened to SVDPress?

I used to read SVDPress's blog about fourthcore and in general enjoy their updates. The last time I went to their site it simply had a download page for the three fourthcore modules available. I've …

dnd-4e publishing fourthcore

asked by Joshua Aslan Smith 1 vote