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Well I should have also added that if the dude rocks up insisting to play a Pacific Islander in an agreed upon Viking-themed game that...

It’s possible I over-prepare, but if I enjoy doing it it doesn’t matter. And I recycle stuff for other games.

No one is thinking you're a whackadoodle nutjob but asking to play x non-viking person in a specifically themed viking campaign to see...

Except the way I read it, the question is whether a nat 1 or 20 gives the DM more latitude for narration of what happened. The player...

Not quite. A nat 20 in combat could hit a range of ACs considerably beyond just "one-more than a nat 19 would hit".

If you're just talking preferences, then cool. It's clear you don't like certain GM styles. That's OK, we don't have to like the same...

This thread probably contains at least a thousand posts where various people, including me, have pointed out that no, they can't. If...

Though they each didn't want to play a Viking (at least to start with), how interested were those players in playing in a Norse-based...

You don't like GMs having the power to decide what is acceptable in their game or not. I do. The difference is that you seem genuinely...

If I-as-DM say some creature or other is a monster in this setting and you say it should be PC-playable (and maybe the official game...

Other than the very final comment about catgirl ninjas all the way down, all my responses were serious. As a GM, I absolutely do feel...

The Vegas reference wasn't to gambling (this time) but to the famous saying "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas". Where when I get...

That's news to me. Well, depending on what XYZ are, possibly. Absolutely. You are not playing a bohemian catgirl ninja in my...

Do you want to spend money? You can buy things like t-shirts or engraved mugs. Even a diploma-like piece of paper to hang on the 'I...

Pair of compasses doubling as chopsticks, perhaps? :)