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I'd like to note I consider Heroic Maps one of, if not the, finest battlemap producers out there. I just wish they produced modern period maps, too, and their SF maps had less of a tendency to lean in to Star War milieu.

I'll note people's reasons for irrational behavior is often amazingly opaque, sometimes even to them.

Since I was reminded by the above poster, I normally run approximately7-8 hour sessions, and these days the prep I'm doing will slop across partly to a second session (Champion and Epic tier 13A encounters with a large group take longer to run than Adventurer tier ones, and I have a six player...

Of course she is. She's a border collie.

As a long time dog owner, this all seems all too plausible.

Eh, that depends. Tony Stark has inherited power and wealth, but it only mildly matters to the rest of the Avengers because power (in the social sense) and wealth aren't what they're about. Even in fantasy games how important that is varies considerably. The kicker is for it to not be out of...

So what is I don't think that gets to be a unilateral choice there; it should be baked into either action or character generation, both of which avoid turning it into a sleight of hand/gotcha moment. No, I don't think they entirely are. Then there are a fair number of very old children...

As I noted before, even a game with some pretty gamist chops--the Hero System--let's you try again. It just requires you to accumulate at least one bonus to success over the last try, which can be accumulated by simply by taking extra time. Admittedly, progressively more time to get more...

I believe I spent at least two posts acknowledging this problem. Not the cases I'm talking about, What if I don't care at the moment, and say "You can do that part all you want." And I've seen it enough I don't think its exceptionally rare, at least enough to having to bring up millions of...

I think its situational, but a lot of the cases I agree; its not only gamist, its sloppy gamism that could be done other ways. (There are obviously a few cases where it applies--jumping over a chasm--but they're the exception).

The latter can still be both true and undesirable. The fact some people like it (which is clearly the case, there's no lack of Cypher fans) does not make me feel differently in that regard.

I'm very blunt that I prefer mostly systems with a pretty fair bit of detail and crunch in my games I spent most of my history in games like RuneQuest and Champions that are in no way lightweight games. I found running 3e at 14th level a general pain in the behind to run on so many different...

Just wanted to note that I thought @James Gasik had an excellent post above there. Including the end part which added up to the player in discussion essentially going "Why isn't everyone else playing the way I expect?!" Its one thing to expect people not to demand you play the same way they...

Sadly, some players have scar tissue from dealing with GMs that if you wanted to get anywhere you pretty much had to take this tact, and it doesn't go away just because you're now playing with a GM where you don't. Though not all, this is the cause of a lot of player bad habits; being trained...

The problem is that I've seen this with people who I flat out refuse to believe have things nailed down in their world to the degree the kind of things I'm talking about are contradicting things. Maybe there's people who know everything about ever village within 50 miles and who's who in each...

Eh, I've seen a few too many people (not a huge number, but more than I'd like) to try and use history or connections to make themselves more important and spotlight grabbing to be entirely blase about it. You can make it work if a game has it baked in so everyone is expected to do it (13th...

Like I said, some of it also has to do with what kind of games you're used to. I'd suggest that games where someone has an established life they're going to keep living while doing whatever it is that makes them a PC encourages more of this, because its liable to be relevant more frequently...

At least as far as a character goes, if you're thorough it can well be a case that nothing you haven't already established ends up being significant in play at all though. I think there was exactly one thing in a particular character I played in my wife's superhero campaign that came up during...

She often does. :)

There's always been a divide about this; years ago we even had a set of terms for it (Design at Start (DAS) compared to Develop in Play (DIP). A lot of modern games kind of mandate a bit more of the former, but a lot of in-between cases occur, too.