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Why is the "context of the setting" reliant on the setting being created in advance? The setting should be flexible to the goals of the players, and the ideas they come up with not only in character creation, but play. The ideas of the characters are as much as resource as the ideas of the GM...

You should create a tiny flying crystal fortress disguised as an ioun stone, and put it in orbit around on of the other PC's.

I'd say the next step of the hobby is the exact opposite- recognising that the hobby is inherently varied and versatile, and capitalising on that. We don't need systems that try and unify everyone into one continuity, and politely ignore those who play differently. What we need is to first...

What i'm saying is that by setting the bar low for entry, any comunity or club then drives other people away who don't want to asociate with those who are allowed to enter. Sometimes this is snobbery, but in this hobby, all too often the worst people are the default status quo, because they...

Any functional comunity must have standards. Yes, but i've seen and heard enough to know that all too often the comunity is genuinly disdunctional. That is my point. And, if there arenot standards wich exclude the worst of these people, then that comunity will fail, or at the very least, fail to...

Yeah, I hear a lot of stories about people who play D&D being socially inept, neurotic, acting out wierd power fantasies in the game, I hear about whole clubs dying because the people in charge won't deal with key troublemakers with odious personalities, I hear about long term friendships being...

I just hear a lot wich suggests to me that it's dominated by powergamers and inclusive in a way wich ultimatly drives people away from it. Then there's the unsubstantiated rumors. Like some guy in new zealand saying that he went to a meet and the guy who got player of the night was the guy who...

I didn't say they should take action, but they can't beat Blizzard in the MMO stakes. They're too strong. This is particularly true considering how many companies are already trying to create the next WOW or some variation therof. WOTC and any company would be better off staying away from the...

It's popular to bash alignment, but really it's not such a bad concept. It's just a 2d scale to plot your character on, and you cna mve them around as muhc as you and the GM like. Most of the criticisms i've hard about alignment are either complete nonsence, or due to wierd ideas about alignment...

I've heard nothing but bad things about the RPGA and i'm familiar enough with MMORPG's to be highly dubious about such a combination. If anything we'd end up with the worst of the two, not the best, because such an inclusive system would drift towards the lowest common denominator. And of...

I vote for the evil magic head guy.

Me too! It's fun to read and unlike a lot of threads it does actually start at the start.

Chemosh. Forget this 'cycle of life' guff, he's a lich-god and proud of it!

What if the potions she's making aren't as non-magical as the theives think? What is the magic is in the note book, a rune hidden in the alchemical formula? The formula does create a workable healing potion, but it has a key ingredient- a drop of blood from whoever posesses the book. When the...

Generally I think buffs are the problem, not dispel rays. To see this in action, compare these two statements: "AIEEE, my mighty magics cannot aid us against this abomination!" "BOOYAH, my obsessive interlacing of enchantments have made us invincible!" Wich of these lines are cooler? I'd vote...

Why don't you drop one of the cubes of Acheron on his castle? A big one.

It always made way more sense to me that way. I felt that when the origin was explained, it removed the whole point of the setting, wich (for me) was things were wierd because of the apocalypse. That emphasised the wierdness and bleak, savage and most importantly alien nature of the setting...

Yeah, stuff like this wears on the GM for a lot of reasons. It's not just a matter of the GM doing all the work- it can be a big emotional drain on anyone to try and put energy and enthusiasm back into a situation like that.

I thin in a good group, the players help the GM in a lot of ways. My preferred style calls for players to be proactive, and I think overly passive or reactive players put a lot more strain on the GM. Even if the group is mainly directed by the GM, the players should still bring energy and...

Still, at least the crazy exorcist dude has a cool sounding name, worthy of a Shadowbane Inquisitor!