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Amazingly, I feel the same way! I've said again and again that I'll point out rule errors, and do not mind them pointed out to me. Tactical decisions are different. Your "large monster moving" is a tad weird of an example to me. How far away is he to begin with? 15'? Anything different...

While I sadly never got to actually -play- HOL (Human Occupied Landfill), reading it was a blast.

Amusingly, when I wrote that, I -did- think of you. Let me clarify, I meant every DM I played under IRL. PBPs, by their very nature, tend not to lend themselves well to tactical play. Therefore, it's hard for me to judge your tactical acumen, but if I -had- to judge, I'd rate you at the very...

That's an excellent point. Actually, I posit that rules-light systems would suffer even more from min-maxers. Luckily, min-maxers tend not to like rules light systems, since their fun comes from making great (as in powerful) characters. Let me explain. The lighter the rules, the more obvious...

Alright, I'm answering multiple people here. Rules error, absolutely. As a player, I always pointed out rules error. To the point that it has annoyed DMs before. And it sure has annoyed the more "competitive" players. :lol: Tactical decisions? No. To a degree, I qualify as "tactician"...

I could see how, by the RAW, one could say no. An unarmed attack, after all, is -not- a touch attack. And a character making a touch attack for a spell's purpose is even considered armed! Of course, a touch attack is easier to hit than an unarmed attack. And the reason why a touch attack for...

That's just weird to me. If your DM happens to be good at tactics, but terrible at political machinations, do you help him out with those too? "Man the Evil Baron Nickeldink would really benefit from paying off Neutral Merchant LikesMoneyALot to sell my wizard a cursed headband of intellect...

Re: Pay for play. What about the following situation? A few years ago, I was in a gaming group with an excellent DM. We played at a FLGS (we were all friends of the owner, who also played in the game). The DM got laid off, was in a tight spot, and decided to try offering his DMing for pay at...

Well, I wouldn't call that cheating. I mean geez, that's tactical decisions, not forgotten rules. Should players really be expected to help the DM run his NPCs/monsters in a smarter fashion? Actively work at getting their characters killed?

Alright. So I'm currently running the WLD. While I am enjoying it, and my players are as well, I want to run something different once in a while. My major problem, usually, when running an homebrew of some sort, is getting prepared enough to run on game night, and then I rush things and do it...

Basically, nogray FTW. Any system or style of play can be cast in the bad light. No matter the system, it takes actual work from everybody, and a similar type of play/understanding to achieve a decent roleplaying atmosphere. I'm sure that, was I given the task, I could make any group feel...

After receiving his medal, and the comment by Lt. Ramadier, Normand cannot help a smirk coming to his lips. "I'll do my best, sir. But I can't say I hate receiving the medal in the field instead of base camp. Seems.. Fitting. But as I said, point taken, sir." He then puts the medal in it's...

As I said, it sure can be. My character, when he's able, will learn to do feat X. That's what he'd do, because that will help him survive. As for stats, I still have to learn how picking stats in any way is roleplaying. Skills? See feats. See, the thing people on the other side seems to...

Well, note too that (well, as far as I know), The Shaman's game is a PBP. That, to me, is a huge difference. If I hadn't liked the setting he was presenting, and the idea of running a character in said game.. No biggie. I wouldn't have applied, would have waited for a PBP that did interest...

I dunno. Min-maxing -can- be roleplaying, to a point. First a few truisms. -Characters in the game are aware, to a degree of the rules. For a few examples, they -know- that some people can hit harder at the cost of accuracy (power attack) or that some people are adept of making a...

Remember that the bard has magical ability, while the knight doesn't. So you have the regular party. The wizard in the party, a Diviner, has one offensive spell prepared, a Fireball. On one side of the party is the knight, by his lonesome. He's one level below party level. On the -other-...

Well he was stuttering all over their game, most likely costing them precious minutes of game play they were taking away from their loved ones... Okay, I got nothing.

I could easily set up situations in which it would be extremely weird. And it wouldn't be metagaming, assuming the enemies know the PC group by hearsay.

I think the way it can most easily be shown to be.. Well, weird, is when a NPC knight from an "evil" party uses it on the PC wizard.

I have to agree with the Thayan Menace. If a new player joined my group, he'd have to deal, or decide not to play with us anymore. We shouldn't be expected to change our whole group dynamic to accomodate him. Heck, I was the "new" guy a few years ago, and I dealt with it. Another new guy...