Hi all. Sorry for my absence.  Dealing with a lot of stuff in real life and don’t know when I’ll be back.
Please feel free to NPC my characters or write them out as needed.
To those in the games I’ve been running — they’re on pause for the foreseeable future.
I’m sorry.

Sorry to hear - and best of luck in sorting out RL issues.

I look forward to your triumphant return!

I'm sorry to hear that Shadow. We'll miss you. Come back as soon as you're able!

Looking for replacement player in the Savage Frontier. Check out the wanted post here: link to a message in this game

It seems like Elminster was always Santa. :D

Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Season's Greetings!

We've shrunk a lot, and we're two editions out of step, but we're still going with a core of good players and DMs. To celebrate the end of another year of the Realms of Adventure, every player may take maximum hitpoints at their next level-up for one character.

Seems to me, Wizards of the Coast are two editions out of step.

Be that as it may - happy holidays and good cheer to all!

Merry merry Christmas everyone!

May you all have a wonderful time!

 And a very Merry Humbug to you all!

Happy new Year everybody! May it be even better than the year before :)

Happy Star Wars Day!
May the Fourth be with you!

I saw a few players interested in 5ed, but am unable to find them. Could we check in here ??

I'm up for a 5e game if you get one started and need a player.

Know of any other players ?? I'm not very familiar with this site.

 Sounds good. I have the 5th phb but nothing else. Still i am familiar with 3.5 and earlier, though have not been able to get in a 5th edition game here online or in FTF that survived more then a few weeks before dying out.

 If you get one started in would enjoy giving it a shot.

OK, 2 players. If a third steps up I will put something together. Any thoughts from you and DM Shadow about what type of game you would want to play ?? I played in a 3.5 game a couple years ago and never really understood the finer points of that system.

An evil campaign maybe?
Drow? Monster races?
Murder hoboes that are supposed to be murder hoboes?   ;)

You also might try putting out an ad in the players wanted thread.
5e games advertised there usually fill up fairly fast

I attempted to be a part of the first 5e campaign but it petered out.  I might be willing to give it a second go.

 I would vote the standard low class villagers who take on dangerous supernatural threats to the village.

 Other then that i am open to what ever scenario but evil, that last part is just me.

I'm mostly a lurker since I moved on from 3.5e for a while, but if there's a 5e game I'm kind of interested? If there's space? And its okay despite my previous lurker-ness? D:

Evil players ... Hmmm ... I have the beginnings of an idea. My only caveats are: no backstabbing, last person alive wins type play. D&D is meant as team play. Deeds & actions do have consequences ...

Can we use one of the old previous 5th edition threads ??  The Playtest one seems to have the least prior use. I would need to be able to create new threads, topics, etc.

What are peoples experience with 5th ??  PHB available ?? Free rules from Wotc ?? I am OK with complete newbies to 5th.

I generally use a Mature rating, I am not a fan of XXX, sorry previous job duties took me down that road. I am a laid back DM, used to running a slower paced game - but it depends upon player updating. I have very limited ROA experience here. One game got started, only to end. Typical online play.

To start, we will need a city name, a fairly large city. I have a layman's knowledge of the realms, so it would be altered to this game.

FYI, sorry forgot to mention this. I play D&D with real people on Friday nites, so you will likely not see me on Fridays. This may change to Wednesdays, I will give notice if/when that happens. That DM has work commitments.

We're about to enter the tomb in Tomb of Annihilation. Yes, we just survived negotiating between us, the Red Wizards of Thay & Yuan Ti. I expected a bloodbath, was pleasantly surprised.

Feel free to discuss & I will catch up. Yes, I use '&' as 'and'.

Possible starting background, you all come from the same area of town, perhaps your own street gang ??  I tend not to pay a lot of attention to alignments, save when you are beholden to a god, master, oath, artifacts, etc. Displeasing them will have consequences.

Since we’re all going to be from the same area, would you be interested in revisiting the old D&D cartoon, and have us be from the real world and somehow sucked into the game world?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hHnsMKQJBDA

 Going a few years back we could be from the old series Guardians of the Flame novels?.

 Ye gods, that's old-school... Magic-using teacher working as the GM, right? Ended up bringing a semi-sort-of-almost-renaissance to a classic fantasy world?