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is a species not a packet of rules? so how is a new species not classified as new rules? that's like saying 'if i add a class entirely...

I disagree that I was badmouthing anyone and it's insulting that you think I am. I have given multiple examples of people asking for...

Speaking of control, if someone were to say that they were comfortable leaving the ongoing debate over DM vs. player control as "agree...

I've played some one-shots with DMs where we knew we were going into a killer game and had a lot of fun. It's all about the GM setting...

Back around '81-'83 there was a group of 10-20 folks once a week playing in a game that a local comic/record/book/game store owner in...

I think that the manipulative DM would have just used other means to be manipulative. Text in a book isn't going to change the person...

Considering how many DMs I've had over the decades, there have only been a couple that I would consider "bad" along with a few that just...

Everyone remembers their bad GM experiences, but I don't make the mistake of assuming bad is the standard and we should change the rules...

I've had exactly one "killer DM". One is also the number of sessions he ran for us.

In all my years of gaming I've never understood boasting about being a "killer DM." It's extraordinarily easy to kill PCs or to take...

It's been many, many years since I targeted character's equipment. When deciding how to run the game I ask myself if I were the player...

"Bulletproof" as a word comes from armor-proving. Something blacksmiths had been doing for -centuries- by shooting crossbows, arrows, or...

I'm not usually a big fan of threatening equipment. But in this case there was a huge deposit of Adamantite - which would be a massive...

I don't see why they would be different given the definition you gave. There were no official rules for the races requested. I think...

We had a Paladin death after he survived a Red dragon breath attack but was killed by the explosion of a Potion of fire breath in his...