Thomas Shey's latest activity

The "roll-play" vs "role-play" debate to me is just an older version of the "challenge the player/challenge the character" or "strategic...

They know how, but no one wants to cough up the dough for the bigger catapult... ;) While kinda joking, the challenge now is not how to...

Hence the need for different scales. The GM who writes boring adventures probably needs to read some blogs or watch some videos on how...

Yes, seriously, it's insulting, for several reasons. It's not constructive in any way. It doesn't tell you how to be better. It's...

Both I and my wife love it, uneven as its sometimes been.

And even Hero had rules that applied to specific genres and not elsewhere. But it seems like that isn't enough.

Sigh. AutoCorrect changed “disappointed” to “disabled”; edited the original.

Challenging the mods to ban you or otherwise taunting moderation (e.g. "See you after my vacation" or "I don't care if I get modded for...

That is not quite correct . A (+) thread is for responses that don't question or deny the base premise of the thread, or otherwise try...

Usually I'm more likely to port rules over conceptually than literally, because trying to do it literally is fraught unless two systems...

Almost all rpg rules limit what a GM can do, whether things like how many hp a PC has before can be taken down, how spells cast by or...

Sadly, past history has suggested we're actually perfectly capable of getting worse at it.

Yeah, I've seen more than one do the "power ring conjured gatling cannon" trick on occasion. I mean, in the end, its no more irrational...

Yeah, a poll like this will need to be redone to determine why a player found a particular GM to be bad. I've had a GM who forced...

I'm guessing because, with more people online and able to talk about gaming, people couldn't as easily talk about their games anymore...