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I'm not saying characters should automatically survive, but those that do, want a reward, for the most part. When I run a sandbox campaign, my players pretty much create everything, but I also do not run a sandbox campaign that was bought. I don't think it is possible to write a generic...

Any campaign is going to naturally assume the characters are going to win. So... how is this possible? Care to elaborate on how to sell a successful book where the characters do nothing important?

I have the books. Running the winery adventure now. Like said above, I have had to greatly increase encounter strength for a party of 4 5th levels. Its been pretty boring to DM so far, but I've been trying to spice it up as much as possible. I let them find a map of the area I put the winery in...

Thanks for posting! I went and ordered it. That is well worth $17 imo. I've been needing a flash drive anyway. I've been using by external hard drive as one just because I keep forgetting to get one while I'm at the store. Even cheap ones of those go for about $10... plus a t shirt, and I'm a...

I saw that. One of my bosses has been bragging about his loot crate for months. I'm interested... but I have a hard time shelling out $20 on something I don't know what it is... oddly enough, I had no problem shelling out $20 on beer.

Sure. If I were to introduce kender in the campaign, by adult hood, most of them would have lost a least one hand. They breed fast, like rodents, but on average, most only make to fifteen before becoming useless. Kender wander the land because they are having to steal stuff to send money back to...

My home brew world, the characters start on the plane of Creation. It was the first prime material plane. It is the oldest physical plane from which all other prime material planes came from. It has 15 orbs, each controlled by one of the 15 oldest gods, that function as sun/moons. From there...

I do too. One of my players leveled before the others because of the input he has put into the campaign. I let my players know I was giving experience for that. The same player who leveled also went on vacation for two weeks and still leveled first. One player had a problem with this (Its a PBP...

I was thinking of limiting how high they could fly by their level. At level 1 you could only go 1 square up, at 2, 2 squares, etc.

Without reading all the other responses and only responding to OP: My problem so far hasn't been with short rests, but with travel. During travel where there might be one encounter per day. If I make the encounter a normal encounter, the players plow through it. If I make it really difficult...

If I find an adventure I like that is for 2nd level PCs and I want to use it for 5th level, I have no problem beefing up the encounters. This one is for 5th level PCs and most 1st level groups can make easily into the chateau where my players are.

I've beefed up every encounter so far. That has been my main concern. I believe my players are starting to get frustrated with how empty the house is as well. I'm gonna start adding encounters. I am a little disappointed I am having to put in so much number work. That is the main reason I buy...

My campaign setting is based around what each group who has played in it. The characters backgrounds built the setting and everytime a new group is started, the setting is expanded. So if they want to play something off the wall, I generally let them. One character had an elven werescorpion...

Playing table top, three pcs worked fine. The party makeup was a rogue, a wizard and a fighter. It was a fun game. Didn't last long due to the other couple involved getting a transfer to Iowa, but worked great in play while it lasted. Most of my play lately has been PBP, and I've found three to...

If only people who were at the table could judge this, there wouldn't be a thread about it. OP asked for opinions, and that is mine. The OP stated how he came to play two characters. He was not playing henchmen or minions. He was playing two full blow characters. This is a mistake in my opinion...

The DM did make a mistake. He let the OP play two characters.

The DM can obviously handle more players, otherwise he wouldn't have invited someone else. The OP only seems to have a problem with the fact the player is playing a wizard. The OP is playing two characters. The only problems I see here are that the DM let someone play two characters, and that...

If causing 12 pages of discussion on an internet message board over a $50 book isn't enough for you to spend $50 on the book, then you probably can't afford the $50 book.

This reminds me of the time I was in middle school and my friend's hot mom made us include his little brother in playing. We were childish and didn't want to play well with others, so we used a basilisk to turn the little brother's character to stone and made him pretend he was trapped in stone...

I could edit your statement some, but for the most part, you hit my experience. I think I liked 4th edition a bit more than you but enjoyed the bloat of 3E. My group never really used essentials.