Recent content by Thomas Shey

As I recall, the motorcycle in Aftermath would only get you so far against a .44 rifle, too.

Both. Amount of work is not an excuse to ignore the interests of a player. That's the road that leads down to GM supremecy. I do plenty of work for my campaigns, but that doesn't let me off the hook; it limits how far I'll go, but that's not the same thing as not doing any lifting at all to...

Uhm, to be a little blunt, what sort of reasons would you expect? Choice of character is often a look-and-feel thing; its not massively preplanned, but its not any more arbitrary than any other character choice (though usually there's a little something more than can be expressed in classes and...

I believe I'm done responding to you in this thread.

Bluntly, because the questioning you've provided has been both incoherent and smacks of the disingenuous. As such, there is a limited amount of effort I'm going to make to satisfy you.

If you don't understand my contrasting an "extreme example" with normal things I consider somewhat excessive, I don't think its my job to instruct you.

Which is why I said I was not including you in this. I may have indicated I'm not in love with some of your approach in the past, but I'm not interested in misrepresenting people.

When when you can find an example where I've suggested the latter, come back and talk. Otherwise, take your strawman elsewhere.

I think there's a place in between those. Its the difference between "expecting" and "insisting" (which I think very much some people--and to make it clear, I don't mean you--in this thread have conflated). "Expecting" is "The thing I want here does not seem like it should cause a problem for...

And there's nothing that makes anything wrong with it; as such, my judgment of someone who has an overly rigid view of someone in his play group is at is. Its not about what the player is "entitled" to; its about what it tells me about what the GM's approach to other things in the game will be...

This is why you look the document over again after the LLM has had its way with it. Nothing requires it to be the absolute last stage in the editing process, but it can cut out a lot of the middle.

Back before I had a cell phone (this was rather more recently than one might think, specifically about 6-7 years ago--I didn't have one until certain exingencies of COVID made it necessary), I was waiting on an important phone call while working on my laptop (but with a seperate bluetooth...

Other than the attempt to put words in my mouth that I did not say, I literally don't think I understand any of the above. In particular, I don't understand your first sentence at all.

Which is why its a pretty low bar. I'm beginning to wonder what part of my statement was so unclear to people.

I have some long term soft tissue scarring on my left shin cause by my mishandling of a computer keyboard.