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Again 'It is not about what the players' want... ever' is really hard to misinterpret. I do not see any way to interpret that as 'It is not about what the players' want... ever, unless the GM is just plain wrong, eh?' If he had made it even slightly more flexible, then I would not have a...

I think that a lot of the rancor is reserved for WotC the corporate entity rather than for WotC the game design studio, at least in my case that is true. I do not know how much of the rhetoric in the lead up to 4e was corporate, for all I know Wyatt might just have been toeing the party line as...

Whoops, meant to post this with the other - 'Mystic Warrior' (definitely not a Jedi) Libby. More disturbing is Dominatrix Libby.... :eek: The Auld Grump

Look at Pilgrim's first post - the use of the word 'ever'. See it? That does not leave a lot of room for misinterpretation. He made a blanket statement, and one that is, demonstrably, false. The GM is not always right, and in my estimate the worst way to find it out is to make blanket...

A tin bikini at that.... ow. :eek: That cannot be comfortable. Sandra Garrity does a decent job of covering the body. Not perfect, but at least you can't see her belly button. :/ (Why is the belly exposed on so many miniatures? That's the softest place on the body, you can open up the...

Look up St. Joan of Arc. :) (Illo. Ca. 1485) (Statue.) (Statue.) Both photos above from the St. Joan of Arc Center - N.M. The Auld Grump

No, it is demonstrably true - because I have seen it happen, and have been one of the players who walked out of a game, leaving the GM sitting alone. In both cases we are are arguing specific instances, neither argument is either true or false, except in specific instances. No, the implication...

That is the thing. I would not let the players dictate my plots, for example - run roughshod over them, on occasion, but not tell me what they are. If I come up with a rule that causes more difficulties than it solves then I expect the players to complain. Heck, after a session or two of trying...

I wonder if there is any connection between player age and the desire to GM? I became GM after we booted the old one, back in '76, largely because no one else wanted to run.* Now almost half my players have either run games, are running games, or plan to run a game. The Auld Grump * Though I...

He can also wonder why he has no players, never realizing that he never deserved any. At this point, I would not play in a game with a petty tinpot dictator for a GM. I have better things to to do, like being a grandiose megalomaniac puppeteer of a GM. My players are having fun. :angel: The...

Hey! I happen to be a Mordor-American, and I find that offensive! Had Gandalf not broken several treaties by sending infiltration experts - eugenically selected for their small size, against treaty! - into the sovereign territories of Mordor then you would all be licking Mordor boot by now...

Too be fair, most of the DM/GM/Whatevers that read that post seem to agree that it is, well, piffle. :p Most DMs do realize that they run the game so that it can be enjoyed. There are players that need booting, and there are GMs that should be run out of town on a rail. The first game that ever...

Yeah - communication is key. :erm: The thing that is easy to forget is that communication goes both ways - before implementing a major house rule I always talk to the players first, sometimes putting it to a vote. I do not always win these votes. :) (I wanted to use piecemeal armor. The...

One of the worst that I have seen went the exact opposite way - nobody was happy with the GM of a Kindred of the East game, but each player assumed that everybody else was happy. Then one week none of the players showed up, they were so annoyed.... A few weeks later the game was canned - the GM...

Ah yes, don't forget to talk to your fellow victims players first! It could just be you. (Doesn't sound it, but....) The Auld Grump

Piffle! It is always about what the players want! If folks are not having fun then why play the game? I include the GM in this - if he is not having fun then why run the game? But it is never about one player's wants, even if it is the GM. To the OP - I would get together as a group and tell...

It is why I tend to write '3.X' for 3e and 3.5 or 'the 3.X architecture' when I want to include Pathfinder. I tend to summarize Pathfinder as D&D 4th edition in my head, and discount that other game, uhm, what was its name again? :p For me 4e is not an edition of the same game as OD&D - 3.5, it...

Not quite true - there was some limited third party support for both OD&D and AD&D. Officially there was Judges Guild, unofficially there was Mayfair, Game Lords, The Companions, and a few others. (I did some work for The Companions.) The Auld Grump

I am good at interweaving plotlines, and at controlling information flow. I am bad at improvisation, pretty much in direct proportion. The Auld Grump

Oh, come on! If that were the case people would already be doing unauthorized supplements for the game! Oh, wait a minute.... :angel: I was talking more official than unofficial, but you are of course correct - and I notice that WotC has not gone after folks like Jolly Blackburn. One of the...