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Not gas tank. A petrol tanker truck. If it did go off, it would be a big boom. In any case, the only reality that matters is what the GM and the player agreed on.

In Discworld reality, 1 in a million shots happen 9 times out of 10!

I thought this might happen as soon as I saw that someone asked for an example. As far as I can tell, The thread isn't just about hanging, the OP was about what you level of reality you are applying to different situations. Which is what I will reply to. I am reminded of a time years ago when...

Hmm. Good question. Is she hot? Sorry. You know - good vampiress and all - I had to ask. I'd like to know how she ended up 'not evil' for a start. That would inform a lot of my other responses. I wouldn't want to destroy her, but given there is lots of weird demon stuff going on, and who...

Wow. You have a lot of power in your group! Does everyone always do what you say?! It may not be the same in Summer-Knight925's group. It may be a friendship group, and as such the social status may not all reside with him because he is the GM. It may well be up for the group to decide who...

Damn. I just deleted a long well thought out post while trying to edit it. Sigh. Please pretend that I didn't delete it, that it was totally kickass, and that it completely supported / absolutely devastated your position, or just amused you no end and respond as appropriate. Thankyou

I would give you XP, but I have given you too much. Well said.

People with knowledge of the rules can indeed be very helpful, and an excellent resource. My knowledge of the latter day versions of D&D is somewhat incomplete, so I rely on my players better knowledge of the game. The term Rules Lawyer is classically used to describe someone who uses his...

You are disappointed because you wanted to play the cowboy, but you are stuck with being the indian again. Correct. On the internet, everyone loses.

... Checking that your character is "balanced" means rolling against your balance skill. ... You ask the GM if you should be rolling high or low for this roll

You search on your character sheet for the box marked THAC0

The way I see it, all systems are point buy, on some level. With Class based games it's just behind the curtain, that's all. With D&D the players are provided with templates (classes) of differing types (magic, stealth, etc) that are optimised to work well together in combat and balanced against...

Annoying, then, that we always seem to be stuck in the middle.

Certainly much better than GURPS 3.5.

Indeed, though in deference to Eric's gran we sometimes use a variant. Pigs Rears!

I definitely do, especially when people use a small font. I can barely read thread titles let alone anything smaller

Well, part of the challenge for the GM is maintaining the illusion that it is prophecy instead of plot immunity, but, yeah, I am cool with that. If the players are trying to break the game in order to 'win' of course it won't work. Luckily my players are pretty cooperative. Gaming for us is a...

I don't think it's not railroading to say that there is a circumstance where players won't succeed. It is almost the opposite of the classic definition of railroading, where the GM is allowing only one path to success. I think it is reasonable to say that the latter party in your example may...

Well said. And interestingly in this case, it was that the Lord of Nazgul thought himself invulnerable to anything less than a Maia or a Balrog that led to his being killed by Eowyn and Merry. He actually taunts Eowyn with that fact, so you can only imagine he totally :):):):) himself when he...

Really? Wow. I don't think that is telling them that at all. A player with some sort of persecution complex might feel that way, I suppose, or one who had a lawyer at the table demanding that everything in the campaign world revolve around the players and their capabilities, all of the time...