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Played this for a few years growing up because the game we really wanted to be playing, Dungeons & Dragons, was of course "evil" and we'd all be sacrificing dogs and chickens, and of course ourselves as we learned from Blackleaf, if we went down that path. After TMNT we graduated into Ninjas &...

LOL! ...yeah. Nothing says polite and cogent like mods needing to ban you and/or warn you from further contribution in threads.

Not going to argue with you Bob until you bring to the table a credible argument. Certainly not going to lend any legitimacy to the thread you linked to from a GM asking blatantly biased and leading questions to his players (e.g. 'did these metagamey aspects seem metagamey to you?', 'doesn't...

All the 2d20 books they produce for 2 years plus all the d20 books that Mongoose produced for the d20 game in PDF is a pretty sick deal.

It's beyond having a concern and raising it. It's beating it into the ground to the point of getting threads closed and being banned from forums. The mechanics don't mesh with what he wants. He knows this. That's not going to change, and it shouldn't. At that point, it's time to move on...

Having watched multiple playthroughs, listened to multiple playthroughs, read multiple playthroughs, and engaged in two playthroughs with 8 different players I can say that what you suggest happens with 'players thinking they're being picked on' hasn't happened even a single time. It hasn't even...

My bet is either the Stormlight Archive or Kingkiller.

Yeah.... more like trying to reduce the amount of never-ending echo reverberating off your massive chalice of overflowing button doom...

No. I'm not. Conan buying dice is built into the narrative, just as the DM spending threat is built into the narrative. You don't see Howard making a note in the story to suggest Conan bought some dice, just as you don't see a note from him indicating he buffed his encounter as the result of...

Let's see... ... he's rendered helpless and cannot fight in a battle to save his kingdom, forcing a look-alike soldier to take his place on the field (who is eventually killed) ... he loses his kingdom ... he's crucified ... he's bewitched by the daughter of a god and nearly killed by frost...

Your assessment of this video is what I would expect from someone who was deliberately trying to find fault. You neglected to mention that at least 4 of the 6 members in this game have less knowledge of the rules than you do, so their understanding of where and when to utilize the threat...

No, I didn't neglect it. I built it in. It's in the very text you're responding to. I gave you a few off the cuff examples of the DM spending threat: You could say each and every encounter Conan ever faced was first modified by a DM using threat. Conan kills a dinosaur in Red Nails for crying...

You said you wanted to go to PMs so I already answered you there. I haven't suggested anything of the sort as to 'playing correctly', only that you play as intended for reasons I've already outlined. The "problems" you've identified simply don't exist unless you're playing with idiots: -...

This contradicts what you said before, as you gave me an example of a player in followup session being punished 'Because I have a lot of points' by the DM from the actions of a different player who he knew generated the threat in the previous session. Again, not having read the rules, and given...

I don't understand why you're applying repetitive punitive measures to players who didn't generate the threat (i.e. "I've got a lot of points to spend"). There is apparently a rule in place that says you must spend these points? Or you're just being an asshat DM who is intentionally being...

My suggestion is simply not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. If you don't like one jar of beans, play with one for each player. That really isn't that much harder. If you don't like the impending jar of bean doom, then just expire the points at the end of the session. I realize you...

But it all evens out, doesn't it? If you're staring at a jar of buttons indicating your impending doom, that's a result of you being excessive with applying bonuses to your character previously, right? Again, I think most of the problems you have with this system are easily addressed by simply...

Yes, but as I mentioned in my post, why would a player do that knowing full well the repercussions of his actions? I don't understand why, if you knew what the mechanic was capable of (i.e. the DM returning threat) Robert would wantonly rack up the threat pool at the expense of the group. That...

I somewhat agree with Water Bob's observation about the mechanic, but wonder why it really matters (outside of personal preference as to knowing meta knowledge) simply because it would seem to all even out in the game anyway. As a player I can choose to get an advantage in X situation knowing...

It's Conan people. CONAN! And not "Conan the Barbarian from the world of Hyboria and his buxom partner Red Sonja", but (supposedly) Howard's Conan, which is a rare appearance indeed in the deluge of crappy Conan products we get each year. This is as iconic as it gets in the world of fantasy. To...