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Adventuring is fraught with hazards, some merely inconvenient, others instantly lethal. Be prepared for all of them. Of course, or I wouldn't put the "world will end" on the table in the first place. A player gives her permission for her character to die when she joins the game. I don't...

It's just a friggin' game.

Your posts are perfectly understandable, Daven - don't sweat it!

:erm: I think we all learned something about you today.

Me too. :cool: More than decent, I'd say. In any case, regardless of rules, I do expect a roleplaying game to offer opportunities for both 'combat as sport' and 'combat as war.' Sometimes I want a duel on a rolling quarterdeck, and sometimes I want to send a fireship at my enemy's flagship...

I want to duel the Cardinal's Guards in a convent courtyard. And I want to push a bastion wall over on a sortie of Huguenots.

Thanks! You're in Flambeaux's game? How cool! I wanted to come out for the con, but I'm going to a wedding in Las Vegas this summer and there's only so much vacation time to spread around.

Pretty much this. I make a lot of information available to the players if they want to explore the game-world, but as far as actually introducing a player and a character to the setting, we talk a little bit about cape-and-sword genre games and stories, run-through a nickel overview of the...

For cape-and-sword games, involving adventurers with important figures in the setting is integral to the genre. A swashbuckling game without the adventurers being swept up in the intrigues of the powerful would feel very flat to me.

You Scored as Tactician You're probably a military buff who wants to have the chance to think through complex problems. You want the rules, and your GM's interpretation of them, to match up what happens in the real world or at least be consistant. You want challenging yet logical obstacles to...

Chained to an oven.

Oh, so we're all showing our wares, now? Here's mine: Really Bad Eggs, my thinking-out-loud workshop for cape-and-sword roleplaying games.

Nah, he's the location manager, the set dresser, and the production assistant who herds the extras.

This, to me, is one of the fundamental skills a rpg referee must have, the ability to separate each npc from the hive-mind of character and campaign knowledge vying for neurons in the referee's head. And could someone please xp S'mon for me?

What do you play?

"Ahead of you, on a curve in the stream, is a stone bridge. A carriage is overturned at the far end of the bridge, creating a barricade blocking passage to the road beyond. Behind the carriage you see the tips of a dozen pikes above an equal number of gleaming morions. To the right, across the...

John M Ford, who wrote a number of very good Traveller adventures as well as the brilliant The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues for Paranoia, died in 2006.

My wiki and my blog.

Here're some suggestions that work for me.

Baddabing. Plus, they're FUN! I LIKE reconciling the weird and the incongruous. They're puzzles I get to solve, over and over again, and they take me in directions I might never come up with on my own.