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Enjoyed the re-cap, surprisingly entertaining :) As to your question, it seems like they were too quick to tell you how to play your PC but maybe maybe there's more to their side of the story. As you described it, there was a little too much 'meta' to the gaming, meaning the players appealed...

I've never been one to use published settings (half the fun I get from D&D is making my own) but is the basic premise of the OP correct? There are only many settings published for 4E so far but the "settings per year" doesn't seem that out of whack to me. Is 4E really light on new settings...

Interesting analysis & generally agree with it. I will confess I make use of #6 at times (love the title for it though; I kind of think of it that way myself :)): having put some hours into prep'ing certain things, I will look for opportunities to work it into the game, even if it isn't the...

That's how I typically work.. especially since my handwriting sucks:eek:. I really need to go back to handwriting school...

I find a good walk in the woods helps a lot, especially since I'm very close to a park that strikes me as very Lothlorien-ish :) As for where to compose, I almost always write my adventure notes on the computer but my adventure maps are handdrawn. I have campaign cartographer and use it for...

My wife tried it but she thought we talked to much. She only liked killing things. None of the roleplaying or mulling over what to do next stuff for her :) But she has always been very supportive so as nice as it would be to have her play, it's been fine. My kids are just getting to the age...

That's an interesting thought to help the players who struggle with a background. Most of my players know what to do and do a nice job at it but one of them might benefit from some more structure. The dirty little secret I have in my campaigns? I don't actually need everyone to have a good...

What sort of support and participation do you get out of family and SOs for your paper and pencil RPG hobby?

It's boring but it must be Lord of the Rings. Although it might actually be D&D itself. I was reading science fiction in grade 4 or so but I don't think I found fantasy until grade 8-ish and about that time, I also had my first D&D experience (sufficiently moody in an old basement and with a ref...

I typically use a middling level of hook that involves: Detailed PC backgrounds from as many players as will cooperate. These typically provide some starting hooks and some likely starting places. An initial scenario that demonstrates what ever distinctive elements there may be to the setting...

I haven't found a heavy rules lawyer as you described useful (one who makes us look everything up, and to that, I'd add gets creative on his interpretations as well.) But I do find a rules savvy player very useful. We tend to move to the latest WOTC rule edition which means few of us are...

That's a start. I'd suggest more detailed tables that allow for stairs and other stuff in the room, wandering and static monster tables, treasure tables. Certainly could be amusing for a while until you get your brother in there, especially if you are looking to master a new rule system.

Don't look to me to argue that point. I like my settings to be robust and at least make a reasonable attempt to integrate these other components. And I have elsewhere argued that magic should have more dramatic effects on settings so I'm not being inconsistent. For those who like to crib off...

So the addition of multiple, tangible power granting gods shouldhave little affect? Perhaps that should affect a setting as well :)

Well, no, I'm not saying firearms and gunpowder have to have a "huge super dramatic change" on the setting nor that it has to be a bigger change than for gods or magic. But it should have some change on the setting.

Bravo! No doubt some suspect I must have paid you to say that :) Put another way, you modeled guns in a differentiated enough way that they caused changes in the behavior of your players. This is a microcosm of earth history where they also caused substantial changes. To turn it around, it...

Okay, I'll take your word on it. I don't recall saying you did but if you read it that way, I apologize. I've been dealing with multiple, different objections to my posts from different people. Some have argued firearms have little change, some have argued there is nothing wrong with...

It gets back to the people's personal boundaries for suspension of disbelief. These are personal which to me means both that it varies from person to person and there isn't much inherently wrong or right about them. You might like peanut butter more than chocolate; I don't :) Neither is...

Yeah, it's funny. I used to read a ton of fantasy but have drifted away from that in later years. I don't draw inspiration from anything but Tolkien and there only certain aspects of his world.

Looks interesting and a reasonable cut of it. Thanks for sharing. Your treatment of them (and other recent posts) does suggest another way to look at this whole firearm element: It could be casually integrated. Essentially reskins of other ranged weapons without much on how they act...