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Its a good question, since there seems to be some pretty varied experiences even within one game system.

It is a very common phenomenon for people, once they've missed enough cycles on response on Kickstarter to just--hide. Its kind of a...

I look for situations in adventures that are going to cause these kinds of moral quandaries and remove them. They're just not an area of...

That's probably it (interesingly, I couldn't get there via the link directly; I had to copy it to a second tab). And like the posters...

Red Markets looks like it does a great job at what its trying to do, but my gaming group is pretty unsuited for it.

I can only carry over my experience from SotDL, but if one wanted to avoid a flat bonus system and get into diminishing returns on both...

It would help if there wasn't a history of GMs, particular in the D&D-sphere, crowing about their body count. Not every GM in lethal...

Only true if its all about that one character and nothing else.

For a moment I misread "unarmed" as "unnamed," which changed the behavior in question a bit. I agree it'd be an interesting question...

I have thought of starting a thread called "Do you punish your players for in game actions?" Like say they killed an unarmed enemy or...

That's true. But they don't seem to suggest people doing the opposite are playing lesser games for the most part, and I see plenty of...

And I think when it comes up, its much more common than you seem to think it is. Then perhaps reassess that my argument means I'm...

Only if there's no consequence to the combat outside the situation of the PCs. That doesn't fit most combats in any game I've ever been...

I mean, the truth is, I'm not going to be onboard arguments on either side here that says there's no tension in superhero combats (which...

Not to put too fine a point on it, but--so? That doesn't mean the impact on the player is any less. In some cases it can be more. I...