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I was going to make a joke about cutting holes in my pockets for similar results. But I shall restrain myself. Oh this hits home. I have vague recollections of rolling something like that for a white dragon back in AD&D days. So awkward. Or more recent memories of being unable to pick the...

What to steal? The gold, obviously.

That is indeed the norm of DnD. It's the "finely tuned" I was making a joke about. Clearly not a good joke. So I'll just go stand in a corner for a bit. :)

Hey The Sword. I am really enjoying all your posts about Warhammer. I really do want to try it someday. But that bit I quoted. That I cannot agree with. ;-)

I love world building as a thing I do for my own enjoyment. But I learned a long, long time ago that very few players are ever going to be as into it as I am. And truth is, when I'm a player I'm not as into the GM's world building as the GM is. I think it's the nature of the beast. If I do...

I enjoy world building, creating NPCs and organisations and wondering how they'll interact with each other and the PCs. Obviously I can, and sometimes do, do that without actually running a game. But it's more satisfying when you get to run a setting for real. I enjoy watching the players as...

I recently had an vampiric villain get staked. Not completely unexpected. The PCs had encountered her a few times and had just foiled her plan to mind control the Lord Mayor. Somewhat to my surprise they then decided she had to die. This struck me as odd as she herself hadn't done anything more...

Urban Fantasy Went to pub; kebab shop Brindlewood Bay Made our grandma's. Starting soon.

So... does it even have an official name? Other than DnD.

Only read the OP. I would like to add that I give bennies for different things than I give XP for. You get bennies for bad jokes (in or out of character); doing something unusual and clever, or at least hilarious, in character; snacks. Other stuff as the mood takes me.

re. GMing advice. I've found being involved in, or just reading, conversations between GMs to be really helpful. I agree that the specific examples are more useful but there's room for some theory too. The trouble a book like the DMG has is that it's not going to be a conversation. It will...

Re. Derek. Snarf, lock the damn drinks cabinet.

True. And I came close to mentioning it as an example of power creep. The example I considered using was a power from the Psionics book that was priced differently from the exact same power in the Supers book. IIRC the actual power description was pretty much word for word the same. Might have...

"Claw Lord," "Gnaw Beast." :D Gotta love them Warhammer names.

Yeah, look, what you describe is a very definite issue with character power balance in points based systems. Characters require careful adjudication, consistent application of limitations, etc. But that's not power creep. OP defines power creep pretty clearly as something that happens over...

This was pretty much my first thought on reading the OP. But one thing I think that falls under power creep was when 5th ed. expanded on what you could do with autofire attacks.* I think that added a lot of oomph for minimal points cost. Then again the rules for the various skip fire, etc. etc...

There's a difference? Serious question.

There's a strong cathartic element to the violence in games and media in general. People like catharsis. It's a thing. But how any one person feels about the framing of that violence in any given situation is going to vary a lot. Which is to say, the catharsis one can get from a piece of media...

If this happens I hope she gets to keep the fabulous dresses.

No idea. Is RDJ playing Tony Stark from another universe? Or is he playing Victor von Doom? I admit I made the remark about pulling away from multiverses based on the first few things said in the Marvel Reveal thread.