Recent content by tehuber

Think about it this way: You can be McDonalds and appeal to a huge mass audience with a consistent and widely available, if somewhat mediocre, offering. Conversely you can be a Ruth's Chris Steak House (or insert whatever high end restaurant floats your boat) and offer a better experience to a...

They are if Hasbro feels that for the money spent, they could get Tens and tens of millions of dollars releasing new transformers figures, or another edition of monopoly, or something else.

I have always done it where I ask the players to give me an open-ended hook or two in their player background that I can integrate into the story, such as: Player is left the broken hilt of a sword as an inheritance (or a mysterious map), but they have no idea what it belonged to or what its...

Having run a group that started at 7 and grew to 11 over the course of a couple of years, I would say don't do it for the reasons many people have already listed. One thing I have noticed when groups get large is that sometimes a significant number of your players are just there because a) they...

Rolemaster/Spacemaster critical hit/failures charts were full of funny descriptions that were perhaps a bit too extreme at times. One I recall from (I believe) the arcane magic failure table went something like: You convert yourself into pure energy and hurl yourself at your opponent...