AbdulAlhazred's latest activity

There's no principle called 'be stupid'. You're reaching. Bringing the conflict to bear on the characters, challenging them, making them...

Look, I wasn't there and won't pretend to know what was going on. OTOH I do think it's very likely that the player being complained...

Right, the 2014 system is basically lifted straight from 4e. You roll a Stealth check and whatever that result is, that's the DC of a...

No one said anything about being interrupted. The scenario was that the thief made enough noise while picking a lock that the cook heard...

I have a friend who is a master lock hacker. Truthfully, for a skilled person tackling ordinary locks there's little doubt of the...

I see other people have already pointed this out, so I apologise if this feels like dogpiling, but this is misrepresenting what...

You might be going a bit far in the other direction. Nor did @TwoSix say that self-awareness etc. was nothing. He simply suggested...

Touchy much? I never said anyone is childish except some hypothetical person who can't play with others. And I am going by a metric...

I've got no issue with how you did this in your game. But you also post stuff like this: And you use this sort of thing to criticise...

Well, I've seen a lot, and my sense of it is that if a player uses backstory authority to, say, grant their character power and...

But who's doing that?

Yeah, it is surprising. For the same reason that the GM needs to come up with stuff on the fly… because you can’t come up with...

Here is my perspective on this: I have done a lot of pretty hardcore simulationist RPGing. Mostly using RoleMaster, but also using...

Again, you are equating It is not the case that I have an agenda of making the characters' lives not boring with I have an agenda of...

I'm actually happy with players creating backstory and whatnot dynamically during play in order to relate to stuff that is happening...