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At our table, the DM is a fan of the PCs but encounters are not guaranteed to be "balanced" - and are telegraphed accordingly - and...

I run two types of campaigns: beginner campaigns at school, and then my home games with friends and family, few of which are beginners...

Yes, very much so. Role players are varied and fun creatures — sometimes I like to optimize a killer D&D4E bard/rogue/assassin Drow who...

What's funny here is a lot of this stuff can be true at the same time. For example: Players take advantage of DM errors that are in...

I studied pure math for 4 years and went on to get a doctorate in applied math. At a Gen Con long ago and in a city far to the north I...

I could, quite honestly, vote for every one of those options when considering the group as a whole, even the last two that are in direct...

My players use their real-world knowledge to empower their characters, but only when the character clearly would have that knowledge...

A little bit of the latter, and a little bit of lumping of a bunch of interconnected actions reduces ability to make meaningful...

Our current group is not adversarial, though I've played with groups where that feeling did exist between the GM and the players (not...

Some recent threads I have been in have discussed player-GM interaction and the degree to which GMs need to handle player knowledge and...

Two answers to this. The first is simple — I trust my players and they don’t abuse it. I wouldn’t play with people who do. I mean...

Sorry, I’m not really clear on what you are getting at here. Is it that you think that the act of using actions to accomplish a task...

Well, there are plenty of other task-focused games, but I'd also suggest that even in action-resolution games, there are typically...

If you are giving two sentences of info to 4 players, it doesn't seem that is any less interesting, fun or informative than giving eight...

If you are of the school that says one you have a written encounter, you cannot change it to react to the players' actions, yes...