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Foolishness deserves punishment. By magicianing some get out of jail free card out of a backside hat, one allows their own foolishness...

I disagree. The text is not dictating what RPGers can and cannot do in the setting. Rather, it is presenting a creative vision of a...

I recently caught myself that I have a favorite description technique, especially in an opening scene or a new location: describe in...

They all are artistic decisions, and I'm charging $50 per face per session for my artistic decisions. If a player doesn't want that...

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Soooo... GM, and by extension, the villain, made a mistake and players set out to rightfully punish this mistake, and that didn't work...

Does it? Must I also seek council when picking the system, when introducing NPCs or when designing a new random table? Do players even...

I personally just make up rules and don't really consult with the players about the changes, merely inform them. I often have to modify...

There's four big reasons goblins and orcs are green in the cultural zeitgeist. 1) Games. Warcraft, sure. But also Warhammer miniatures...

So, the rules aren't rules. They're just suggestions. The GM does whatever they want, whenever they want, for as long as they...

"What is and isn't Real Role-playing" sounds like an argument about semantics to me, and those tend to go nowhere. I don't find a...

Yes, but it's not only about story. Trying a difficult combat encounter several times until you win by the skin of your teeth is fun...

I'm not a big fan of alignment specifically, but I think an evocative shorthand that players can latch onto is a good thing, and for the...

Sure. I'm operating under the presumption that the group actively likes their current situation and would rather continue playing, and...

People tend to avoid having to lose progress, so they tend to not want to die. What's even the alternative, really, presuming have a...