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So you might want to stop here quick and back down from the "reckless idea". It is reckless to you...not him. Again, careful. If your saying the player should sit back and let others play....why? It is better to keep everyone in the game. This one is easy...add a couple of "softer" foes in...

Odd. My experience does cover thousands of games and thousands of players, so I have experienced a lot. I can only guess others don't game as much as I do. I say things like plenty of players cheat, and then others post things like "in 20 years I have never ever seen a player cheat"...

I find it to be common. It would seem everyone else only plays RPGs with their best friends. I often play with strangers or people I "just" know.

Yes. A question only takes a couple seconds to ask..... No.

PBP is HARD. And SLOW. And HARD. Get a spot online and a group of players. All you can do is HOPE everyone posts something like everyday. It is nothing short of a pure nightmare waiting for even four people to post even a simple response. Games with one DM and one player work best. Though...

It fits... Not sure why it is "loaded" I want to play a game. Not listen to a player for 30 minutes as they roll out pseudo science to say they can knock a dragon out of the sky with a dagger if it is thrown "just right". Same way I don't want to argue with a player rant the demands "the...

I disagree. Too many players just want to ruin games for everyone with rants. It is all about them, and they will ruins everyone's good time and sit back and cackle. This is why you need a strong DM to get rid of such players quickly. Somewhere between five minutes and five hours. Though...

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The classic way to control magic items was to have the characters loose them. Somehow the modern game got the idea that magic items get "plot armor" and never, ever can be lost or destroyed. But in classic play, it happened often. Plenty of classic monsters could destroy weapons and armor...

No. Creativity has nothing to do with options. It has to do with being creative and wanting to add to the game. There is a huge base of gamers that think and feel they should almost never add anything to the scared RPG. The RPG is perfect in their eyes, made by creator demigods, the average...

This type of play is only for a few players. It sure not for most players in general.

Well, I'm talking about such things being common. Not the "once a year" idea......maybe every game. With truly random rolls anything can happen. In general, wacky results won't happen often.....but they can.

I'd add, for example, the very Old School way.....not really in favor of many in the modern day....of rolling for everything on extreme tables with extreme results and always keeping every roll no matter what: no DM or player interference. Arrow does crit damage, your character dies. DM...

Often. For a lot of players this is a big highlight for a game based on some IP with big cannon characters. I have run Star Wars games in lots of eras, but my go to time is generally a couple years before Star Wars. A lot of the time they pop in to give advice or slight amounts of help. A...

You can see it so fast, for most TV shows that last more then two years. Technology....phones and computers are the big easy to spot ones. Before 2000 ish....no cell phones and pay phones and land lines.....or, well, you just did not call. After 2000 ish you can watch year by year as they...

Saw the movie.........

The easy way to do it is have the player-dm never do or generate anything unless a player tells them too. And as players don't care about such things even if a zombie horde was to get close to a city, a player can just stamp their feet and say "no, player-dm make it go away". And the player-dm...

I do...not that it would be 100% successful, but sure they can do...or try it I find I don't have to change much as I set up nearly everything to be just right. I tell the player "too bad, pay more attention next time" The characters get so spotted. My world is the hard luck life I'm...

*To have players 'level up' at home: Once I did the huge waste of time of having one or all of the players gain a level during the game play. And sit there as the player(s) take huge amounts of time to level up a character. Often more then a hour as they goof around. So, no more of that...

I'm sure it can happen.....but why take the risk? It's a huge red flag when someone just shows up on game day and they are like "oh...my wife is here can she play? Yuck Yuck Yuck". And unless this was decided (or demanded) by the wife like a second ago.....why did the player not ask before...