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So the question becomes when does fiat to produce "what is cool" become adversarial DMing to stroke your own ego rather than designing...

Yeah, by the end I had nothing but hatred for Luthen and felt nothing at this death. He turned out to not be the man he seemed to be...

Saw wasn't right. His selfishness, inability to work as part of an alliance, general abrasiveness, and refusal to abide by any moral or...

I start with the layout of the space, do the big gross details of the interior, and then move to whatever is most immediate last, not...

“Best game we ever played.”

And then they latch onto one improvised side comment. Three hours later,one of them is married to a rug.

My main concern is always in describing just enough to the players to make sure the important details of the scene are shared between...

It has had three editions, and the second one got supplements galore.

Alignment is as I said about core values, ethos, fundamental beliefs. You separate it in two or three ways, first by noting that all...

Yeah, gun to head moments are interesting in a sense of testing a character and their alignment. They are not interesting if the GM is...

At a very broad high level, if they are doing things because they see no other options they are probably neutral.

So alignment is always separated from personality to a very large degree. Mistaking alignment for personality is one of the most common...

I think it would be a mistake to think that everyone of the same alignment agrees on every issue or that everyone of different...

I also allow in my games alignment detection to be resisted by a bluff check (where the strength of your piety is a penalty on the...

It's a shorthand code many-many-many people understand. Heck, I was in a high school counseling office the other day and saw a Muppet's...