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I always call for a check for any non-standard use of magic. Especially used to shortcut something you could just do manually. If it's not a spell or power, but still magic, it's a skill check, with a DC commensurate to the goal. Ditto for a spell where you're trying to a related but not RAW...

I agree with the one who sets off airport metal detectors. Of the options presented, Shape Water. That said, as a GM, I might just ask for an Arcana check (or Nature because Druid?) and allow a simple effect to sweep the snow aside. It'd be a pretty simple check, and you'd need concentration...

In a downtime session, a player wanted a pet, and the others wanted on that cart. I asked my daughter for something they could find that comes in litters, and isn't a cat or a dog. "Dire Squirrels." So that's how that crew came to have freshly weaned, only slightly carnivorous, Dire Squirrels...

I never thought Everway was weird. I still don't think the setting is terribly unusual. But the mechanics... I can see it. The author was trying something, a game where trust in the GM was a vital part of resolution. The mechanics as written explicitly require the GM to make a lot of decisions...

This was too weird for me. We played it for one session, and never went back. I grew up so steeped in cartoons and it's never occured to me to think Toon was weird. :p I once played a large talking rock. Rocky Balboulder No-one mentioned my personal favorite Weird. Tales from the Floating...

1) Discord 2) Be Responsible By that, I mean, I Run a Discord Server just for the reminders. I generally post reminders on Wednesdays for the upcoming weekend, and pin notable news like absences and such. But, last I checked, I'm not their mum. They can get to games. I'm not going to be...

I did this... When we were all 13. In a Top Secret Game.

I cannot adequately render my opinion of a person who would do this. I don't have a way to say it without using bad words. But there's no opinion I have that is lower than an anonymous coward who pulls stuff like this. I would out him the moment I learned his identity.

I have opinions... First, fair warning: I have not and will not see the trailer for this new movie. I'm already in; I don't want or need the potential spoilers. I need to preface this... When I first heard Fury Road was coming, my jaded thought was "oh great a pathetic attempt to cash in on...

That's a future me problem.

Didn't happen this week. [Redacted]

I never quite got the game off the ground, but in a reboot of a super power setting of mine... "Between Five and Ten Years ago, an experimental treatment by Doctor Jones completely cured you of an illness or injury which was either fatal or permanently debilitating. What was the illness? How...

I don't mind subverting expectations, or having abilities the PCs don't. What I mind is when it's out of left field. It's there to surprise the players. And I mean players. You know how in a Video Game your character walks into a large open space strewn with corpses and resources and you go...

Okay, can't seem to use quotes in an edit, so... I understand this... But when the programmer cheats first, none of us should get the remorse. Does this excuse it? Or should we work harder? Or level cap ourselves? I will admit there's a threshold of prep time/effort beyond which I just don't...

Here is my instant reply. I'll read the thread and expand if needed: My son is an avid computer gamer who also role-plays (where as I am an avid role-player who also plays computer games). He's very into the theory and intent of game design, and spend a good amount of time practicing to explore...

I love this. I my case, the poker face is when I mine their OOC comments for material. :P "That is the dumbest idea. Tell me in detail how you think it would work..."

I don't have harebrained ideas. My players have harebrained ideas that turn out to be right.

[REDACTED], now I have to start collecting stamps!

Finally rounded out by collection from this guy (these guys? IDK).

Actually, it was 1998. :D I worked weekdays, my wife worked swing and weekend. We basically never ate a meal together for like 10 years. But also after a while I got REALLY bored and depressed. I went looking for alternative and I found... WebRPG Online. I have looked, but my Google-Fu is...