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I think that a lot of it has to do with when you started playing, and who taught you how to play. From 1980 till about 2001(ish?) the overwhelming majority of D&D players and groups that I met considered it one of the most cardinal of sins to simply "create" a character that was not 1st level...

Definitely, more so than even the weekly player-journal emails that we did. Having something physically there to look at, and something that they could use to answer their own questions as to what had happened kept them far more grounded in what was going on.

Yeah, the only reason why I used clipboards was because I had a place to hang them along the edge of my old game table so that they weren't eating up table or shelf real estate. Once the NPC became noteworthy enough they'd graduate to a 4x11 character card that I'd hang over the edge of my DM...

Yeah actually, now that Bedrock mentioned it, two things that always helped the longer campaigns I ran were a clipboard list of all the NPCs the players met, and the gist of who and what they were, that I kept behind my screen, and a month by month calendar that we had taped up on the wall of...

Fox streams them: http://www.fox.com/watch/607308867569/7756658688

Continuing the tangent, The Borg didn't make your top 5?

Let's not be silly. Please.

You could also start a new poll to find out what your punishment should be.

You should start a new poll to find out.

This is definitely not a poll, anyone who voted yes is a metagaming powergaming railroader.

I wouldn't say that they're outside the mainstream, but they're definitely outside of the kind of role playing games that you tend to get with D&D or Dark Heresy. Dogs in the Vineyard is very different. It's a storytelling rpg that's missing the tabletop wargame aspect that I'd assume at least...

The series would have ended a lot sooner if everybody on the ship had been airlocked by the autoflush toilets in the first 15 minutes.

I've never owned or operated a gaming store, but I've been very close to people who have. I'd say that the #1 most common problem I've seen is allowing a store to become a clubhouse at the expense of your other customers. I think that gaming stores that are clubhouses tend to do better, but at...

I think that 5E would probably be at least close to a good fit for you, but I think that if I were in your position, I might try to sell everyone on something way on the outside of what people were used to just to shock the system. At the same time though, are your players up for a change...

My take on it through the entire show was that they were trying to do kind of the opposite, to make the viewers question their assumptions that it happens in the near future and muddy where it existed in the timeline. Rolls of Charmin made me think "either this happens in the near future or...

Finished up with "Lock In" (not too shabby) and am now starting on Stephen Kings "Mr Mercedes" trilogy.

Actually BSG did have toilets. On that show however, it bothered me because they had rolls of toilet paper and it would have been cleverer for them to have had something more foreign.

Ah ha! Well I guess someone missed an episode!

Though both these points are true, I'd say for the story that they've been telling (the bright and shiny, happy, lawful good, good guy Flash) as well as the overall story they've been trying to tell with the DC universe, it doesn't mesh well at all. He's the do the right thing, and still...

You're mostly right, decisions like that aren't made by the writers, but they also aren't really made singly. Even though there's usually only one person designing a set, there's an easy dozen people whose job it is to look at what they're drafting and planning and telling them what they can...