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I put down Neutral. If I was playing D&D (and not my homemade bastardized version in the works), and it was a monthly subscription fee for access to a bank of online content of equal quality as the magizines, yes. In fact, they could just do that with the exsisting magizine content now, and I'd...

I think it can be both. But most of the heavily world-built games I've played in ran into one of three problems: 1) There were setting elements that the players couldn't possibly know about that were insermountably preventing our success. These weren't really shared, but just sort of popped up...

I'm not quite an Ad-hocker, but my world building has become less and less strignet as time passes. Adding things on the fly has put me in a few positions where, suddenly, I'm countering something I said before. Usually my players call me on it, at which point, we adjust and move on. Me: So...

I've been working on this quite a bit the last few games. It's going pretty slow, but it is a steady step. One of the PC's has a crew he's in command of. As things come up during the game, we're constantly seeing what sort of folks are in there. As things come up, we make note of them. The crew...

I'm not completely sure what you mean here. I think I missed one of the steps in your deduction. Would you spell it out for me? Perhaps I should have said "What you feel is more important to how you should react than anyone else's stance on 'right play' or 'ruining fun' or anything else." As...

tylermalan? Did it bug you? Did it bug you enough to do something about it? Seriously, it's not about rationalization. If the fact that he looked in that thread makes him uncomfortable to play with, then that's it. He's uncomfortable, don't play with him, move on. If you want to vent, please...

1) People who can cast wish have better things to do with their time. This could range from world destroying ainceint monsters, held in check though strange rituals; to enjoing halfling tobacco and a nice pint down at the pub. Get in the heads of those high level guys and find out what's...

Seriously? Alignment. Also, character creation. Also, party creation. Also, adventure creation. Also, an actual section on building flavor into/out of the mechanics. "And here are 6 changes to make a swashbuckling friendly game." Perhaps a little bit explaining some of the whys or hows so...

Yep, however, Roy had at least a minor assist the first time from Hayley (though probably not a +5 worth, maybe just equalling out to his greatsword feats). The first time was bad weather, so it basically fell to Roy (with club) and Hayley (with rapier) fighting her. Not so good odds. The...

Selling magical loot? In ThoughtBubbleland such a thing is unheard of! Gold coins are a scarse and rare commodity and the sight of a handful is enough to send most men's sense scattering. The thought that someone could simply handily exchange an ancestral weapon for a pile of money, or that...

In my estimation the biggest potential for problems comes from noticing the difference in control. Since the DM pretty much controls everything you may start to note those times when your fighter really wants to go help his starving aunt but the DM wants to do a lemur hunting dungeon crawl...

The strip is kind of in a weird place. Not only is it a story, and thus subject to all sorts of story concerns, it is also a story about D&D and is subject to all the D&D concerns. Some of those D&D concerns are also player concerns. Even if the order's players are just in our imagination, I...

Most of my characters have speaking mannerisms. For a paladin I was working on, I took an irish accent, then dialed it down until it was just barely there. It definately showed, and it colored my speech patterns. It was funny that as I got excited, the accent would thicken (it's hard for me to...

So, you're saying you wouldn't have a specific categoriztion for an NPC who travels with the party, gains one share of xp and loot, and gains whatever special benefits the rest of the party does (ie: free room and board at the town they rescued)?

It's a rant, it's visceral, not logical, and I think it hit all the right buttons. And it applies to just over half the total games I've been in.

This is all sorts of fun. We’ve got competing definitions of DMPC going around. We’ve got competing ideas of player attitude and experience. We’ve got questions about what rights and duties DM’s have. In short, tons of highly relevant fun. Ok, as I understand it, a DMPC is a character in...

That's good. Because I was going to explain how hopeless it was to try and change the game. Focus in on this stuff here. That and the fact that you're getting to play with your wife are going to be the sources of your enjoyment. Yeah, your DM is pulling a power trip on you. Don't worry, it...

I have a question. Do you think that it is possible to play a bad game of D&D? Is it possible that setting up some rules or siuations (like ranged aimed attacks counting as CDGs to make the town guard more dangerous, or my DM's 'attacking body parts' rules) can actually make the game worse, or...

Bad news Taky, this isn't a game for you. I have a lot of sympathy for your situation. And good luck toughing it out. You know it's a bad situation when you're prefacing everything with "He's a really nice guy but...." or "He has some really fun NPCs...." But here's the thing. The game isn't...

Well, given that my one lv 15 character was a rogue/shadowdancer, *poof*. Lets say I was playing a fighter though, I'd probably ask them what was going on and act totally unthreatened. Unless these are really ranking guards and they've got a hero alongside them, they're not a threat. I'd extend...