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I'll second that, I'd like to see an example, please...

That's an incredibly good counter-point to my style of GM-ing. If the GM is not comfortable/capable/experienced - not sure which is the best word to use here - with running games in the style I preach, the campaign is probably going to fail. So yeah, I preach it, but I also acknowledge it's...

Oh, you're right, the players won't care as much about the world, but having that world background knowledge, I find, greatly improves my ability to improvise at every game session - yes, the entire game session. I do love world building too though, so I probably still over-do it some. But...

+1 to all these (don't be a dick, have fun, remember these are friends) But, the absolute most important thing you must do as a GM, IMHO is NEVER write a plot outline. Flesh out your setting, create interesting NPC's with their own goals and motivations, but don't you ever write a GD plot...

I didn't fully read the thread, but to address the OP's dislike of "player empowerment", I think that this has become a reality in RPG's designed in the past decade, maybe a bit longer, due to - to put it plainly - crappy GM's. The players are at this game trying to have fun, trying to do what...

Well, I've given it a while for "good" Gygax books to be pointed out and quite frankly at this point I have to say that if that's the best he's ever written/designed, then it's no wonder I couldn't find anything I liked by him - all of that stuff is horrible, IMHO. So once again, I'm simply...

I didn't know any of that. That does show that he was truly a man that cared about his fans - and that's always a great thing. ... and that's incredibly well put as well. I'll add my +1 to that. The only minor exception being that I've personally never run across anything he ever wrote that...

Yes, I'm aware the profanity filter puts the smileys in place - that's what I was referring to, most forums I visit just let the filter do that and the mods don't care because the filter takes out the profanity. I did not realize it was different here, but I got it now. And thanks for the...

It indeed is my opinion. Granted I haven't read everything the man wrote, and I never made any conscious attempt to, but what I have read of his work, I dislike. And as stated before I and I'm sure every gamer that ever was or ever will be will love the man for his role in creating the hobby...

To clarify and put it more politely this time ;) What I meant is that Gary helped to create the RPG industry and for that I and I'm sure every gamer everywhere loves the man for that. Where I disagree with probably 99% of the people, if not more, on these boards is that I think everything the...

My bad - I thought since the profanity was going to be "bleeped" anyway - it wasn't a big deal...

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This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen as a :):):):)ing poll... choice 1: have a great girlfriend and relationship choice 2: have no girlfriend and nor relationship but be a great GM What :):):):)ing idiot chooses #2 (substituting boyfriend for girlfriend in the case of female GM's, of course.

Kickstarter is :):):):)ing stupid. You either do what you want to do and have the money to do it, or :):):):) you. Period.

My rule as a GM is nothing at the table but gaming, period, as anything else causes too much distraction, including background music. If you need a calculator, that's fine, but other than that, just character sheets, not even RPG books at the table. I don't want you reading your latest...

My two favorite low-magic (and also a bit on the gritty/realistic side) systems (with settings included if you want them) are Dragon Warriors and The Riddle of Steel (difficult to find at a good price though). GURPS would also work well for this, so I second that one too. And if you do use...

Alright, so the question is "are there any setting which are purely human(or all civilized humanoids at least)+animals+monsters, where the monsters are all unique creations"? No, I don't know of any like that, but it does sound like an awesome idea. The esoteric monster generator mentioned on...

Yeah, a bunch of those are not even close to WotBS in terms of "1-20 level campaign", though some are very good finds that I'll look into. Thanks. Mega-Dungeons also not interested in those... FWIW

I own WotBS and the Accordlands campaign book. Are these the only big campaigns like this available? I haven't been able to find anything other than Paizo's adventure paths. Can you point me to other similar products? System doesn't really matter to me much. Sorry for going a little OT here...

All tropes need to die. Everything should attempt to be as unique as possible at all times and give a big fat finger to "normal" - whatever that's supposed to be...