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To an extent. But I don't believe that @AlViking is making some absolute statement that they know everything about how every game will...

I love coming up with the concepts and ideas for adventures and the key pieces within them - new items, cool villains, funky traps, etc...

Honestly is mostly that I detest the scut work of developing adventures - picking monsters, making sure stat blocks are correct, picking...

A good - and IME quite manageable - mix can be using canned standalone modules for the adventures themselves, but self-authoring the...

I'll look things up then and there if I have to, as will the player(s). Problem there is that the "mistake" has in fact happened in the...

Thing is, one group's disruption could be another group's bread and butter. I say let 'em fight, as long as it stays in character. One...

In the mid-late 1990s I very much suspect most of the people still playing were hard-core nutballers i.e. the opposite of casual. Most...

The only case I can present is anecdotal, which I know you'll dismiss out of hand. Of such few people who were still playing D&D in the...

It's a funny thing. Im not into what you like so insult them. Then act offended when for some strange mysterious reason they dont...

I have always wanted to learn how to play canasta. My uncle never cursed like he did when playing that game. :cool:

I think this applies to all domains. While I'm wary of what people say about any generation (remembering the lies and generalizations...

There's also the hosting piece, which in home games IME also falls on the DM 99% of the time. For common stuff, the DM ideally should...

I think someone really new to GMing--especially someone without much experience as a player, or without much variance in that...

"oh Condescending One"? Really?

Had my own rant here about people telling fellow gamers that we are somehow not worthy because we don't play multiple games but it's...