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Quite correct. It also has other factors I'll mention below. After something has been established as a part of the game world, it is there. It cannot be changed by a handwave. To contradict something that already entered the game, one needs a good reason, supported by the rules and group's...

As a GM, I've used all sorts of stuff to inject an air of realism into my Cyberpunk games in the past, from pictures to music to borrowing a laser pointer (back in the early days when they were bloody expensive) to shine on the player's torsos at a key moment to signify they had just been...

I think that's got to be a given. Even when I've made it clear to the characters that there are "no good guys and bad guys" outside of personal perception (even the characters the players view as "baddies" think they are doing The Right Thing according to their own priorities and probably think...

One thing I've thought about doing if a new player decides they want to join in the game is: introduce the character as an NPC, first. We've probably all been in a situation where the game is in progress, the players are up to their necks in the adventure and a new player comes along...

Well, for a start, the GM didn't ask/tell the player to wish for a magic sword. And the question is "would the magic sword have existed in story had the player not wished for it?" Answer: most likely not. The GM is responding to the whim of the players and "letting them win". Yes, it's...

Perhaps it's just me, but I see a world of difference between a player choosing to wish for a sword or a secret tunnel and it being provided by the GM and a GM telling the players "choose between two doors, one of which leads to safety and the other of which leads to (da da da DUM...) Certain...

NPCs becoming pet characters is a problem that must be avoided whether or not they're running along with the team or just a recurring outsider that you've spent time and effort into building up. Frankly, I'm more likely to be guilty of protecting the player characters in the interests of them...

Excellent comments with great examples abound - thanks folks. I fully agree with kigmatzomat's concern about a character becoming a GMPC and I fully agree with not letting the character steal the players' thunder. Hence the character needs to be run on skill rolls and the players make the...

OK, not "sad" as such: The Mean Streets of Hamilton, New Zealand, 2070 and the fairly cybered-up team are out and about for the evening. Little did they know I, as GM, had a nasty surprise up my sleeve - they were about to get mugged. Pretty normal state of affairs, except the mugger is 11...

Cheers, HoE, had already found that thread - most useful. Well, I spent part of today at work playing around in OneNote and this afternoon I installed OneNote on my home computer. Now the fun of organising my rules and campaign notes will begin.

Good point, thecasualoblivion. Aloof and/or passive would work. This afternoon I had a few chuckles imagining playing the character as having a quirky sense of humour and thus all his "suggestions" for what they do are based on cliched and appallingly stupid TV/movie plot devices that would...

My fourpence, standard disclaimers apply, YMMV etc... I have a setting. It's a reimagination of Night City - some things have changed (like I moved it to Australia, renamed some of the regions, put in different/new gangs etc). That setting is full of stories. There's "The Ripper" murdering...

Thanks for that, HoE. Was hoping I could avoid having to change duplicate data manually. At least it should be good for sorting out my game rules - which are a mess of Word files containing my house rules and amendments to the core rules used in conjuntion with the manuals. I could scan the...

Any GMs out there do this or do you avoid it like the plague? I've found it necessary from time to time to make up party/team numbers - generally to provide a necessary (to complete the campaign) skill set that only another character can bring (rather than loading up the player characters...

A quick question for those who have created things in OneNote - and sorry if it sounds like a silly question, but (as you may have gathered from above) I've never created a OneNote file, I've only ever used it to navigate through documentation set up by others. Can you create linked data? E.g...

I do think in circles and have occasionally got tangled in a mess trying to keep interrelationships in my head. I tried mind-mapping on paper years ago and gave it up as a bad idea - wound up with a mess and not enough room to insert things I thought of later. Just downloaded and installed...

We use OneNote at work to manage our documentation and it's a brilliant tool. I thought of using it to keep track of game notes and (for my fictional writing) story notes but I didn't want to shell out for it. Having found my way to this thread from a thread on how GMs keep track of game...

I write up large amounts of notes in Word, tables of all sorts of details in Excel, for big projects I create databases. I compile lists of stuff that people have, backgrounds, relationships, time-lines, jot down notes of ideas that come to me. I have a rough idea of big picture in my head and...

Haven't found the figures for that. Quite well prepared to believe that the figure in Rogue's table is not accurate as he did have to guesstimate a few figures - and I've made a few guesstimations of my own based on his. Rogue's figure for the .50BMG is certainly way lower than what I've...

OK, numerous ballistics reports later, and quite a few calculations, I have come to the conclusion that the muzzle energy of a standard shotgun is not ten times the muzzle energy of a .45ACP or nine times that of a 9mm SMG. It is close to twice that of a 5.56/.223 rifle, however. Using Rogue's...