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It was good enough in most places up until the 1920s. If the objective is to produce near-constant civil war, I guess it does.

Milieu. Dweomer. Voulge. Guisarme. Bardiche. Glaive. I had to ask what 'milieu' means. I worked out that 'dweomer' must have something to do with 'dwimmerlaik', a word I knew already.

Absolutely! It's the difference between sexuality and sex. I've never felt that there was anything to be gained from playing out sex scenes, and the one time a player was keen to do so I found that it made me uncomfortable and didn't advance the story at all. Sometimes I need to know (as GM)...

In mine most NPCs and PCs are human, and most of them are of what you might call an Indo-Malay racial type, though there are neighbouring countries with racial types more like Polynesians, Singhalese, and even Europeans. Then there are divers, or merfolk: a race of more Polynesian appearance...

Well, I don't think that that is what I am doing with my game, because I would be preaching to the converted. My gaming group (not the present one, but the one I had in Canberra with which I developed my most successful settings) includes gay and bi players, and the straight majority are all, as...

Yep. Apart from realistic contemporary and SF games that have had a light sprinkling of gay and lesbian charcters in them, and apart from teh fact taht one of my friends is gay and usually plays gay characters, my non-European non-Mediaeval fantasy setting Gehennum has a set of sexual mores...

I Would Like To, In Principle. But So Far I Have Never Come Across A Game That Does Everything I Want It To And That Does It All In A Way I Can Live With.

Quoted for truth. I say again: bail out, hit the sillk. You aren't enjoying this: in fact, the opposite. Tormenting the GM isn't going to help. Staying around for the inevitable train-wreck isn't going to help your relationships with the people involved. You are worse than wasting four hours a...

They cost billions of dollars to build (though admittedly the huge vaccuum rings and electromagnets cost more than the tunnelling), and they are both smaller and simpler than the complex in question. The CERN complex near Geneva is the largest. It is a bit over five miles in diameter, but...

Indeed not. But there is a big difference between a mediaeval windmill, or even 19th-Century canal-locks and the kind of engines and bearings that could move around whole sections of a gigantic underground complex. I'm not quite clear on how big and heavy and hewn-from-solid-rock the moving...

Indeed not. The essence of dungeon crawls is that setting doesn't make any difference.

Another key concept of the WoD is that the vampires have to work diligently to keep their existence secret, because they are afraid of what mundane humans would do to them if their secret were known. Anyone who can hide a 75-cubic-mile excavation in Sicily full of bleeding edge engineering and...

No. The Genera Of Humans And Dogs Are Homo And Canis (Respectively). Mammalia Is A Class.

Indeed. There is a stretch of teh New Southern Railway in Sydney that is tunneled through waterlogged and unconsolidated estuarine sediment on the shores of Botany Bay. The actual tunnels were bored (or rather pumped) out using a copy of one of the machines that dug teh Channel Tunnel, and the...

Hit the silk. RPGs are supposed to be fun, and you aren't having fun.

Not enough smites in the day. Even if only 10% of the population is of evil alignment….

It's like what Henry Kissinger said about university politics: it is so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

No. Most Of My RPGing Is Done Using Games Without Distinct Levels, And In Which The Progress Of Character Power From Invertebrate To Superhuman Is Much Less Marked Than In D&D.

G'day Some gamers prefer to have a single, versatile, robust game system that can be used for nearly every setting and style of game--a general-purpose RPG. The idea is that they can (if necessary) buy a sourcebook with information and maybe special rules for a genre and setting, or even use...

Sometimes Yes, Sometimes No. It Depends On The Group And The Players, And To A Lesser Extent On The Game.