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The GM does more work. The GM bears more responsibility. The GM gets more say. It's really as simple -- and as completely fair -- as that.

For the record, I hereby grant blanket permission to call me a troll. Jeff P.S. But not a cave troll. That's racist.

I'm sort of in the middle. When my Pathfinder game ended, I was willing to run PFRPG, M&M, Shadowrun, Serenity (using d6 rules), or Warriors & Warlocks (M&M). We all voted and M&M won. Once the system is picked, though, as GM the specifics are up to me. The parameters I chose were "modern...

All I know is that if it last for fours hours, consult your doctor.

I have an AD&D PC (thief-acrobat) who made it to 15th level without dying, including a trip through the original ToEE, back when it was first released. I've made it to 20th level in the 3E era twice: once in Shackled City (mystic theurge; I think I died and was brought back twice, before being...

10 years. I joined a group after the release of D&D 3E, and it's still the same group, with a lot of evolution, of course. Several of that original group and its immediate offshoots are much more casual gamers, now. My housemate and I have been gaming together for 17 years or so, starting in...

I've always kinda expected to be That Guy at some point. I'm an easy-going guy, piece of cake to get along with, almost always, but when I'm having a bad day I can be a dick. (Not bellicose or anything; mostly sarcastic, impatient, and eventually contemptuous.) Maybe one in 20 sessions? It's...

It sounds to me like somebody's caught in the event horizon of a tautology. If you define "playing D&D" as "abnormal behavior," then of course D&D players are abnormal. But that kind of definition discards the (already minimal) usefulness of the word "normal." Still if you absolutely insist...

I am fully on the side of the jailers, here. The A-series (AD&D modules) are practically an instruction manual for how to escape captivity and wreak violent havoc. Similarly, GURPS Cyberpunk was rightly seized by the FBI back in the day. Subversive hacker black-hat bastards.

The only thing I'm in the closet about is loving "Gossip Gir -- " Dammit. Shut the door on your way out. My boss, coworkers, family, girlfriends, friends, and any random person who reads my motorcycle license plate knows I'm a DND GEEK. It's a lifestyle hobby; I'm not sure I could keep it a...

Honestly, my only beef with PFRPG is that I feel they borked the skill consolidation. They clearly made skill consolidation choices based on balancing three factors: fun, realism, and play balance (i.e., utility in play). The problem is that the weighing seems to have varied greatly from...

I've recently tried online gaming via voice-chat and VTT. The first game went ... three sessions? It fell apart due to the DM's new job, which was apparently more demanding than he had expected. The second fell apart before my first session for some reason I don't even understand. Player...

Me, too. I was probably in the 99th percentile of DDM buyers. If Harbinger had been unpainted, I wouldn't have ever purchased that first booster. If -- and I am saying "if" -- the question is "How do we get someone like Jeff Wilder to spend ridiculous amounts of money on our miniatures...

I hear good things about F.A.T.A.L.

It was. PFRPG simply clarifies this, as it does it a few other places.

Maybe not. But we know -- axiomatically, better than they do -- why it was that we stopped buying them. And -- again, I know nothing about business, so to that extent feel free to continue to dismiss what I'm saying -- I've always thought that "people buying your stuff" and "making a profit by...

Speaking personally, I (honestly) would never claim that I "know better" than anybody about business. On the other hand, WotC has shown to my satisfaction with many decisions going back a few years that they are not business and marketing whiz-kids, so I think it's a mistake to believe that...

Is there a correlation between "GM" and "alpha geek"? My suspicion is "yes, and probably a pretty strong one," which would go a long way toward explaining this. Other supplemental, alternative, or complementary reasons probably exist, such as, "There's probably a correlation between 'GM's...

IMO, DDM died because the skirmish game died. Saturation is going to happen. In order to keep selling after the point of saturation, you need an underlying game that justifies someone like me buying his third or fourth Owlbear sculpt. ("Collector mentality," BTW, helps, but is not enough. I...

Might be before your time, but my uncles owned, and I managed the kitchen of, Jockamo's on Bardstown Road. Even when I didn't live in the Highlands (my last apartment in Louisville was on Everett), that neighborhood was the focus of my existence in the city. My aunt still runs the descendant...