Recent content by Garyda

Hey if all you care about is simplicity buy you a tub of d6 and play tunnels and trolls. Or tour glorantha via Basic roleplaying.

Try designing a campaign for a bunch of hundredth level charaters out of the original three dinky little books. There have always been power players. There are always going to be characters hunting for an edge and that includes the real world as well as the fantasy learn to deal with them. No is...

Primary problem for me is that I also serve as chief care taker for my diabetic wife who had a stroke 5 years ago. I can do the computer rpgs just pause and go take care of what ever needs to be taken care of but obviously that doesn't work well with groups.

For casual gamers I stick with stuff like settlers of cattan. Much as I love fantasy dealing with people who simply don't care enough to learn the in's and outs is a night mare.

And? Like I said you are dealing with information over load. You've got to much crap going on and you're so busy looking at all the crap that you've lost sight of the primary goal which is entertainment. If all you ever do is one offs it's a problem because you never know what you are going to...

Get Blind fight early...

Takes all Kinds my friend. That for instance was the very thing I loved about it.

Bdum pum pun...

IN the sixty odd years of Playing AD&D and all it's versions I can't remember a single memorable gnomish character in any game one off or otherwise that I participated in. I do remeber the twin Goblin assassins Izzy Deadyet and Hitem Again. The overpowered and overpowering Gennedy Moir Human...

Big Books? Try reading David Weber's Safehold series. Sadly about all I have time for these days is computer games...

The balance issue for GM in my opinion isn't so much overpower but information overload. You know what your Player characters have and there stats, if you have a brain you've got a copy of their character sheets and current goodies. All you need to do is remember the basics, No one wants to hear...

You Would have hated I.C.E.

Of course you can have both. those are the best games. And a good DM will create as complete a world as he can. NOte not being omnipotent omniscient and omnipresent however much us DM's might relish the idea there will always be some holes the trick is to spot them before they become a problem...

I've been playing RPG's since I first ran into Dungeons and dragons back in 1972. In my long experience with RPGs the quality of the game system is a direct function of the people in your gaming circle. RPGs were originally intended to be social games though the age of the internet has changed...