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If your DM showed up that infrequently and the rest of you didn't just start a new game without him you are far more tolerant than I would have been.

I never understood the hatred of THAC0. Granted, it's been years since I played 2E but my memory of it was that it wasn't hard to use. Has it been replaced by an "easier" system in newer editions? Well, everyone is entitled to their own opinion but the level of difficulty behind THAC0 was pretty...

I am currently a player in a Pathfinder 1E campaign and we just started so the honest answer is I don't know, but since it's a pre-published adventure the odds are good there is a BBEG. The last campaign I ran, a Savage Worlds Plot Point adventure, had one. When I create my own adventures...

I don't play PF2 but was an avid PF1 GM (and still occasionally am a player) so maybe my unfamiliarity with PF2 makes this confusing but I don't get it. Don't the subclasses still end up different from the main class, effectively making them their own class with some overlap? Is it the overlap...

Cheers, The Good Place, The Sopranos, M.A.S.H., Babylon 5 & Star Trek: The Next Generation

I've carried around a copy of Starfleet Battles for decades and can't remember the last time I played it. I loved the game though.

I've downsized before and over time bought more games although I am not near where I once was. If the target is four games I would miss it by one but I would keep: Pathfinder 1E - I no longer run the game but one of my players picked up the GM duties and I am still the go-to rules guy so I...

"Probably should" and "can" only require a business plan if you are starting a business. It doesn't ever seem that @bmfrosty was trying to start a business based on the original post.

No, but they do have a bearing on what @Moonmover thinks about the various settings. Maybe I shouldn't speak for someone else but I didn't read anything in the post you replied to about the history of TSR or their financial troubles, all I saw was a player's opinion on how much fun it was...

Crap, We're going to die (had to call it a night in the middle of a fight that we probably shouldn't have gotten into)

If that's the case then there is a communication breakdown somewhere because I am pretty sure (although I admit to not going back through the thread to find quotes) pacing was specifically mentioned as a problem but if you don't think that's what's causing the problem then that's fine. My...

Obviously, your experiences are your own (and I may have mentioned this similar point earlier) but I don't think laying the blame on slow DM pacing is fair. I can't think of a campaign that I stopped playing in or that just fell apart that had anything to do with DM pacing, it's always been due...

Well, everyone's got an opinion...

Well, I wasn't raised on them (too old) but am old enough that I have enough disposable income to spend on stuff I find interesting, as is the majority of my gaming group, even if I don't use it. I don't play 5E but I would buy a new Greyhawk setting just to read it because I have fond memories...

I certainly agree here. Once people reach a certain age some distractions are less likely to occur.

You are not wrong that GMs should plan accordingly. If you know people are only going to be at school for a certain amount of time (for example) then yes, the GM should plan for that. However, when I referred to life getting in the way that also includes things you can't accommodate for; an...

I can't speak for anyone else but the number of times pacing has been an issue and caused a campaign I played in to fall apart is rare. Most of the time real life got in the way (jobs, school, family, etc.) and sometimes a particular DM enjoyed playing more so he would "pause" his campaign to...

I have a group I have been playing with for decades and I am usually the GM and we almost always finish campaigns (more than 90+% of the time). A while ago I got bored running Pathfinder (about when 2.0 game out) and stopped so one of my players decided to pick up running it instead. He has only...

As someone who is more of a DC fan than a Marvel fan (although I enjoy both) I would prefer to keep them separate. If I had to pick I would say Robin/Damien Wayne could move over to Marvel. Or maybe Arm-Fall-Off-Boy?:LOL:

I was just using the term in the post I quoted but I took it to mean as stated there: "GM from saying ‘yeah ok i think you said all the right things there I’m just going to waive making the roll/check/using whatever mechanic is meant to be used and auto succeed that one" After re-reading my...