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That's kind of like asking, "How serious do you like your movies?" or "How serious do you like your novels?" I mean, I guess it depends on the adventure and the game system and the group of players. If you take serious as the opposite of fun or as the opposite of funny, then probably not...

I never fully understood Gygax's 1e DMG until I spent a summer running a weekly open table for up to 12 strangers at the local fantasy gaming store. Things made a lot more sense then compared to my experience of running for 4-6 close friends. Also the way to understand Gygax's contradictions...

I don't disagree with you but that is the way it is at level 1 especially given the absurd difficulty of the caves (which at best serve as Dark Souls like trial by fire for newbies with even less of a tutorial section). First level characters simply lack any staying power and 1 to 2 mass...

I don't know. I do a ton of work but then every few years my excitement for prep wanes and I get burnout where I can't force myself to write. The latest period started about four weeks ago. Just can't make myself sit down and do the disciplined work of detailing out a game. This after a...

Left D&D for GURPS. Was frustrated by trying to document all my house rules for AD&D to fix it. Had difficulty verbalizing some of the concepts that I wanted to adopt. Just started feeling that it was too much work to completely rewrite a game system. Got into GURPS because I thought it...

Get used to high loses. IIRC, we started each player with two PC's and finished with like 5 survivors. There may have been more than seven deaths but its been a long time. Scrolls and potions for that price are steals. You are being overly generous. Charge that much for the local clerics to...

Apologies. I had no idea. The only usage I was aware of was for an immature or young player. See Twinking. Interesting etymology to that one - I had always erroneously assumed it was a formation from 'tweak'. I wonder when it entered the RPG community in the 80s.

Ok, whatever. When I was talking about "new players" I was thinking generally along the lines of "new to my table" and not necessarily whether they've played the game before. I have probably had 50 or so players in my time in various groups, short games, and campaigns. Kids are some of the...

The had the GM for two sessions and the first session no one seemed to have fun but I put that down to maybe just this particularly story being a dud. I probably should have looked for an open table for the second session, but didn't have time for that because of some other commitments. And...

I agree with your conclusion though not with your reasoning (which builds a strawman that will be easy to knockdown). But glad to see these dumb proscriptions about how to tell a story are starting to get called out more and more often.

If it's a new player the answer is "No. Never accommodate anything of the sort." The reason is that 90% of those players making the special request are actually signaling that they are dysfunctional players in one form or the other. Either they are spotlight hogs that always want the...

I have no interest in starting a fight. If I wanted to start a fight, I would have directly contacted the organizer. Also, what really is there to say? The event was not to our taste and my daughter was very angry and frustrated by the experience because it wasn't to her taste either...

Across from you wearing the badge that said "Celebrim" - Edward the disgruntled software architect who continually regretted not bringing his stash. That was the most fun game I had this year at Origins: best GM, best group of players. It was a pleasure to meet you and your group.

Were you the guy that filled his backpack with bottles of whiskey?

What table did you play at?

Ever since Dread came out I was excited by it and excited by the reports I was hearing about it. I even bought the rules shortly after the game came out and did my best to run a game of it that didn't really go over well. So I have long wanted to be a player in a Dread game with an experienced...

I'm currently running a WEG D6 game of Star Wars with a group of bounty hunters in the early Rise of the Empire era on a spaceship called "The Dogfish", and Traveller, Firefly and Cowboy Bebop are some of my influences (along with Blade Runner, Miami Vice, Have Gun Will Travel, Paladin, etc.)...

I have always considered CoC a great one-shot game because a TPK is a great ending to a one-shot game. It's just, normally when I play CoC a failed SAN check causes SAN loss leading to perhaps temporary insanity. A failed SAN check from watching your friend die doesn't normally conjure a...

The organizers had a QR code you could scan to give feedback, but despite the fact I write software I find smart phones a pain to use and didn't want to mess with it. I regretted it talking to my daughter after the session about how angry she was from the experience, but I didn't want to make...

I've played FLG's Alien game as a one shot and while it's not my cup of tea and I'm not a huge fan of forcing player competition/antagonism on a player it is true to setting so I understand why it's like that. Nonetheless, I had fun with the FLG introductory scenario, as on rails as it is and...