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If I'm playing RuneQuest and lose the character I'm playing, its not the only one I'll ever have. It may be a character I've invested...

I saw at least one computer game kickstarter that hung fire in part because they'd made the mistake of offering a t-shirt.

Yeah, the super-broad "we'll get you a Dolmenwood kitchen sink as an add-on" campaigns are just asking for fulfillment issues. (Heck...

You still have to interact with them though, and the point when things have gone pear-shaped enough, its all too attractive to not do that.

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...