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I really like Discord. It's a solid platform for voice or text, but the way it lets me set up my own servers and channels is what really sold me. I can keep all my players in contact between games, and even in my game with the three different groups, Discord gives me an easy way to talk to all...

You have inferred incorrectly, and seem to assume I'm a terrible GM since you suggest I do things a terrible GM would do. Though in the second case it is perhaps not an entirely unreasonable inference based on what I said. 1) I said the player "wants a Yuan-Ti Pureblood." As in, she expressed a...

I'm 52 now. I'm white. I started playing in 1979, the day after my best friend's birthday. I was 12. My dad had bought him this present. Dad tried to explain it to me, and I thought it sounded pretty dumb. I wish I could remember the exact words he used, but I came away with the idea that it...

I just went through this Sunday. Running a game where Yuan-Ti have been an issue. Players wants Yuan-Ti Pureblood PC. I told her, "I won't make an issue of the PC race... until I do. But when I do, you'll feel it." She said "Okay!" So, a pureblood Yuan-Ti working in a city post-Yuan-Ti...

Never done it myself, but I see a lot of listings for Paid GMing on Roll20. You might ask there. On the one hand, it'd be cool to be paid for doing a thing I love. On the other, turning a thing I love into a thing I have to do sounds like a great way to fall out of love with it. And I already...

I've seen that so much, not just "evil race" but PCs drawing on every NPC who comes along and then meeting a stranger who happens to be a new PC and welcoming them instantly with open arms. They even used it in the hilarious Gamers movie. It's not limited to the evil races. I get around it...

I don't allow evil characters in most of my games. But characters born of evil races, I do allow. I have a rule. "I'm not going to make an issue of your character's evil heritage. Until I do." I'm not going to have people spit on the Drow or run screaming everywhere they go. That's not fun to...

Yeah, that was why I loved that movie so much. The shout-outs from Stephen Chow to those older movies really made up for the fact that when I first heard of "Kung Fu Hustle," I was expecting dancing, not a con man. :p

I voted for the harpists. I just LOVED their routine, and their awesome music. I bought the soundtrack, but every time I listen to it I need to find a new place to live.

Yeah, it seems like a lot of effort to "Aha! Gotcha!" the guy. Maybe he played once. Maybe he is the world's biggest uber-nerd with a secret collection of everything Gygax, TSR, and WotC ever produced, but is kinda embarrassed. Who cares? What is gain by dissecting his life like this?

300+ But now you're making me think about it... 40 years, dozens of conventions for 30 of those... 30-42 seats per con, two cons per year... (Sometimes three or four, but usually two)... Impossible to track the repeat players, but I'd bet the number goes to four digits. Now if we just say...

Aha! So you know...

As a past game con organizer, I would like to respond with our mantra: Dear Game Con Attendee: "You think you can do better? Prove it. No, really. Come prove it. Please. Please come prove it. PLEASE! No-one wants to help run these things and we're all just overworked volunteers desperate for any...

Oh, hey! That picture expands! .019% is somehow more depressing...

I bought the big box and the rest out of pure nostaligia. Loved TFT back in the day, ran it for years, played in a weekly crazy game with about 20 players - with 6-8 showing of any given weekend. Haven't done anything with the new stuff yet. Pure nostalgia for me. :p

No wonder I can't get anyone to fill the spot on my Numenera game!!! Didn't even make the list!

How about telling someone? Sure, Poe kinda had his head up his butt. Or even say, "Hey, I'm a Vice Admiral. I did that cool thing you mentioned earlier. Trust that I have an actual plan, okay?" Or, "Until we know how they're tracking us in Hyperspace, I have to assume someone it a spy and I'm...

I used to require detailed back stories. Now I shy away from them. I used to provide detailed back stories. Now I shy away from games that require them. A long, detailed back story might help a player get into his character; it certainly has helped me in the past. But as a GM... I'm looking...

I've never understood this, why it needs to have drama associated with it, and I guess I'm thankful for that. Thanks to my dad, for buying that weird game where you pretend to be elves and whatnot for my best friend's (later step-brother) birthday. Thanks to my best friend for saying, "well...

I'm running a game premised on a traveling circus which in reality houses a band of mercenaries and thieves. Good pictures of fantasy circus characters are hard to come by. But... This is Brianna, getting ready for her performance. She dances on the high wire, and at the end of every show, her...