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Player buy in is the bggest factor, players need to accept theyre playing vunerable chatacters in tense situations. The DM provides the...

I think the most important rule, since its the most commonly broken, is this: Do not remove player agency. A lot of horror novels and...

Optimisation isn't the problem. We all do that. It's over-optimisation when no one else at the table plays that way. I had this problem...

Is this discussion about optimization and optimizers or did the board's focus change to etymology? I'm down either way. I'm sure the...

I'm sorry, but of course it is. If I don't like optimizers because they mess up the game (vs my expectations and hopes for the game...

This thread will go well .... Let me start with a story. In American law schools, there's an archetype called a "gunner." It's ... not...

I ran numerous games of VtM 3rd edition during the late 90s and it was never about horror. Vampire was a game of politics and intrigue...

I think the issue with VtM 1E and 2E is that they were never primarily horror games. Particularly not 2E. It'd be a re-writing of...

You could write them down and paraphrase them when you GM. I do that. Matt Mercer does that, and he is 42.

Fortunately my players are all my age, too, so they also suffer from CRS (Can't Remember Sh*t).

The player decided what the runes said, which is fine in a collaborative style game. I just don't happen to want to play that style of...

My verbal descriptives also goes out the window. I spend a lot of time thinking how to describe something and when the time comes it...

I'm 56. The thing I've noticed most is that my verbal word recall when I am GMing a game is getting harder. I'm trying to describe a...

D&D spell illustration challenge, day 35: Burning Hand Little Timmy is pleased to show his teacher how he self-taught Burning Hand by...

D&D spell illustration challenge, day 33: The dwarven technomagical complex is looking for a commercial name for the wand of Blight...