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Hiya! I give Secret Doors a "Hidden DC" number then compare to PC's Passive Perception. If theirs is higher, I'll mention something like... "As you make your way through the slanted corridor, Bearkiller smells something that reminds him of burnt meat, about half way down". Then it's up to the...

Hiya! It's not my job to keep a D&D character alive (PC or NPC). It's my job to provide a "realistically predictable fantasy setting the Players an rely on in order to make reasonable decisions for their PC's...barring 'unusual circumstances'". It is through this "believability in the world"...

Hiya! For PC's...not sure if I'd go that route. If I did, I'd have it not be so much "HP's as we know them...'ish", but more along the line of a sort of "Buffer HP" that gets whittled down, and when it does is when individual PC's start taking 'physical damage'. So if a PC Party had 100hp, any...

Hiya! I may be breaking my Hackmaster GM's Oath here...but I think I'm in the clear as it's presented in the "All things Dice" section of the Players Handbook (pg 347). If your d20 (or any die) starts to show that it's luck is starting to dwindle significantly, you need to immediately place it...

Hiya! :) I'm a "bit odd" in what I enjoy about fantasy settings, sci-fi settings, horror settings, super hero settings, you get the picture. What I constantly think about and find the most interesting is... the common folk. I mean, the PC's are not "normal" 99% of the time in an RPG. They don't...

Hiya! sigh Another "RPG license" that doesn't nothing but take away rights of creators without actually giving them anything in return. :( What they should have done... take a page from some of the Video Game Engine companies out there like Unreal Editor (Epic Megagames, or just "Epic" now I...

Hiya! Sure, why not? (31yrs) B/X/BECMI: 1981 - 2012 (32yrs) AD&D 1e (Pure): 1981 - 2015 (3 yrs) AD&D 2e: 1991 - 1994 (15 yrs) Hackmaster 4th: 2001 - 2016 (2 yrs) D&D 3rd: 2000 - 2002 (0!!) D&D 4th: ...hehe...no thank you Evil! ;) (5 yrs) D&D 5th: 2014 - 2021 In those I consider a game "still...

Hiya! NOTE: Personal opinion on how/what Ability Scores are meant to represent in the game. :) One thing I'm noticing; some people are surmising that "You could be a very bright guy and amazing at math...but be horrible at reading comprehension, logical thought and general knowledge about...

I will if you will.... ;) I think I'd have a better time of it though, seeing as I don't run a top-tier RPG website....so, there is that... :) PS: Isn't that something addicts say? "I'm not addicted. I could TOTALLY give it up if I wanted to. No problem. I just don't want to" ;) ^_^ Paul L. Ming

Hiya! They can have all the 'control' over their IP they way...they just don't get to control me. Which is one of their "cost/benefit" things (e.g., "how many stubborn old farts are we going to PO and loose, versus how many kids have we brainwashed into accepting our rules unquestioned"?)...

Hiya! I DM in the FR on rare occasion. When I do... Grey Box. Ever single time. Wait...I did DM the Phandelen (?) adventure in the 5e Starter Box Set when it first came out...but everyone died to a green dragon (surprise!). Does that count as "new FR"? I mean, I still used my 1e FR knowledge as...

Hiya! Admittedly I have no real knowledge of CP Red other than it exists. I bought Cyberpunk 2013 when it came out in '88. Like, the DAY it came out; friends and I had driven down to Los Angeles for fun a year before graduation. We hit up a "hobby shop" and the guy told us of the cool new game...

sigh We are not mocking PEOPLE. Hell, I can probably count the number of times a Player has mocked AN NPC IN A GAME SESSION on my hands and have several fingers left over. EDIT: I can't really use any real-world examples of my personal experience and of 1st hand knowledge of friends...

Hiya! I would say... "Dude...kinda stereotypical, isn't he?", then let the Player explain why he think's it'd be fun to play. I mean, stereotypes aren't necessarily bad, they're just 'stereotypical' (re: white guys can't dance, asians are good at math, etc [for the record, I'm "mostly white...

Hiya. Yes. But we aren't bullying anyone. We aren't mocking anyone. We're just playing an RPG. I don't have any bullies in my games. In fact, I've never had a bully in my game. So I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that if some people playing an RPG around a kitchen table is somehow...

Hiya! They are all the same... not attributing to real people in reality. I think that's where we aren't seeing eye to eye. In ALL of those cases, I'm not actually doing anything to anyone...because they are all fictional characters. Nothing is being done to anyone in "real life". Killing an...

Hiya. Then I guess we just disagree and I don't get it. It's a game character. Fictional. Resemblance to the 'real world' is just that...a resemblance. We happily accept poisoning, murder, genocide, arson, theft, and any number of other things that go on in an RPG. Why is "WHOA! You're...

Hiya! I think you are misunderstanding me a bit. There is a stark difference between: "LOL! Stupid characters are hilarious!" ..and... "LOL! Stupid people are hilarious!" That's my point. A game is not 'reality' and people that think something in a game (or book, movie, comic, etc) is somehow...

Hiya! No, they don't. Not in any meaningful manner, imnsho, ...or at least any well-adjusted adult should be able to deal with it in a reasonable and mature manner. If someone thinks that some mechanic in an RPG is "directly affecting them"...well, I don't know what to tell ya. ^_^ Paul L. Ming

Hiya! Couldn't find one that was what I do. The whole "expect players to..." is the problem. I don't "expect" them to...I don't care what their PC's do...because I'm the "world"; the world doesn't conform to a PC's particular picadillo's just because it would "hurt or be detrimental to their...