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I'm surprised he accepted it even as an in-game event, then.

Either a naturalistic or passive-aggressive way of addressing that kind of problem, depending on your POV (or, I suppose, both).

I think that model also survives because its relatively era-agnostic; at least once you have community gatherings significantly bigger...

Yes. Because as I said, I know of at least two cases where that was true. Extra was used to pay for, well, extras or to set up the...

Capitalism proving yet again that necessary services should not be tied to the profit motive.

This seems to be assuming a considerable more "responsibility" than has been my experience with the (admittedly singular) VTT I've used...

Though I no longer do so, my first use of Maptool was entirely local for at least a couple years.

I voted for #1 because I definitely want the option to self host. That said, if a VTT has quality, free hosting I'll use it - doing that...

I think systematic versus exception-based design is another big factor in complexity. In play, GURPS isn’t actually very complex as it...

beggars can’t be choosers, the TTRPG space is very different today from the 1e days As to 1e today (your is), unless you count the OSR...

As a GM I want to focus on the game and not on dealing with either pointless minutae or dealing with flaws the designers have dumped on...

The old lady who swallowed the fly would approve! The problem happened when the writer of the game rules decided to try making a...

I know, if you'll note I'm not sure as you get farther downt he food chain that premise is particularly true. I certainly know two...

That's pretty much where I am on it; all I really want usually is the sort of thing you have in 1 (as long as a die roller is possible...

Further, the more rules that get baked into the VTT the harder it becomes to add in houserules and-or kitbash the rules system and-or...