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People play games different ways. One AD&D GM would run gritty screw-you-over survival, while the other runs gonzo space lasers and wereweasels riding giant snails. Both playing the same game, only you claim one of them is playing it wrong. Please, tell me about other ways that I game wrong...

Nothing in gaming is a good use of time. We are wasting our lives, every one of us. :P The question is whether or not it is a fun waste of time, or an enjoyable one. Heck, that paranoid, think before you act or get crushed kind of game can be fun. That's pretty much how I run Call of...

Zhaleskra, recovered grognard. See kids, there is hope if you fall into grognardism. :D One issue I want to take up, as it is a favorite of the self-professed grognard, is the 'play skill' mentioned in the quotes from the Tyranny of Fun thread. The position espoused there says that harsh...

Because if you're whining that the combats are too long then you obviously don't have the skills for a game like 4e, and should try sucking less. REAL MEN know how to take it and don't whine and cry that combats take too long. Substitute 4e for game they are grogging over, and combats too long...

Not biting flamewar bait, but a 4e grognard (which will undoubtedly exist when 5e comes out), would say that REAL gamers can take long combats, and if its taking you too long to kill monsters maybe you just don't have the SKILL that it takes to pull it off. A non-grognard might offer encounter...

Simple test. If you can get someone to take the position of "Fun! I don't play this game for fun, sonny-boy!", they are the grognard. The grognard hates new games because they are not exactly like the old games. Playing old games does not make you a grognard. Hating people getting rid of...

I like it. If you use my method, you could do this not just by changing what you see, but what kind of skills you use to get around. Maybe in the Astral plane you need Arcana checks as the main roll, to follow the flow and eddies of the stream. In a Valhalla type setting, maybe you need to...

The first time I saw the Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon I thought "Holy crap, someone made a cartoon out of Exalted: The Dragonblooded!" It would work with minimal mechanical changes and some fluff changes. The different elements, powers that work with them, the magi-tech stuff the fire...

To each his own, of course, but I personally find the idea very offputting. I want to know what your character says, not the gist of it. IMO that isn't any different than saying "My warrior wades into battle and strikes the enemy with a series of expert moves" while not wanting to reference...

Here's one. Heard about this Savage Worlds thing? The stripped down Test Drive rules are available free http://www.peginc.com/Downloads/SWEX/TD06.pdf Enough to get you going, including character generation!

You're wanting non-Euclidian, right? Maps make geography make sense, so you can't use one. Here's what I'd do. Create several interesting things that they might go and see or explore. A temple to a mad god, a field of blood-red roses with a stone circle in the middle, a village full of...

This goes back to the quality problem. It isn't the mean ol' gamers like to hate on D&D Online, its that D&D Online is a terrible game. I've known many people to download it, because they like MMOs and D&D, only to uninstall it a couple of hours later. Other D&D licensed games in the past...

One of the great things about this hobby is that there's a great variety of games with different flavors. D&D happens to be a flavor I don't care for much these days. I'd taken the OP to be asking about that specific game. If he's talking about gaming in general I personally have two very...

Those are good examples - the Dr. Who game recently was especially aimed at new gamers. One thing that it needs to work in RPGs is that it has to be *good*. I don't need your specially produced version of Avatar, the RPG. I could reskin 4e, or use Savage Worlds, or any other assortment of...

I can be specific if you like. I don't like classes, levels, inflating hit points, or dungeons very much at all. I very much enjoy games that do not include those things. :) You did notice, on the way in to this subform, the sign proclaiming "Discussion of non-system-specific topics...

I mostly run modern games, so I use this list Genealogy 1000 most common first and last names from the 2000 census. Though I'm going to start using the random name generator - how awesome is that thing! What I would really love is for one to correlate by racial/national origin. I'd love to...

Interesting that many people are treating D&D as synonymous with 'gaming'. OP, did you intend this? Are you wanting to know impressions about D&D specifically, or gaming in general. Because I love gaming and spend a lot of time doing it. D&D to me is just one game I don't particularly care...

On voices - I have a rule. Don't do an accent unless one of the following are true 1) You can do the accent very well 2) The character is meant to be humorous or not taken seriously If its a serious character and you do a bad accent, you'll make it laughable at best or painful at worst. Its...

On further reflection, I agree with the premise but for totally different reasons. He's talking about 'transitive media', which I take to mean stuff like video games and movies and TV shows. They should not make those things to the standards of RPG fans. They are completely different...

Both my girlfriend and I could only get halfway through it before deciding Shelly Mazzanoble was an insufferable twit and we'd kick her out of our group if she pulled half the disruptive, disrespectful crap she describes in the book. If you want indie stuff, there's always this IPR :: Game...