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Tonight on the history Channel, I saw a 2009 documentary called Ancient Aliens, which argued that many ancient mysteries from the bible and from history were interventions by an Alien race. ARRRRGHH. There was a great deal wrong with this program. But I will stick with its discussion of the Piri...

This can be a difficult question to answer because some players don't want to know these details, saying it ruins the mystery. I have approached this a few different ways, but in a recent campaign, I stole from Mesopotamian myth, and had the God's create the world for their own pleasure, and...

I agree. Cityscape was pretty bad. Some nice maps. But no real insight into city design or adventures. Lots fluff that you just couldn't use, you knew before buying the book. It addressed the different kinds of city adventures. But most GMs I have spoken, have more difficulty managing and...

I was calling the 3E call for realistic ecologies absurd, largely for the reasons you laid out. But I also think, given how fantastic D&D is, you have to have some level of believability. For me, where this used to break down, was the multi-level dungeons that got progressively more difficult as...

I don't see how this is easy to swallow. This was always one of the things that jumped out at me with the older editions. The dungeons always seem to have been engineered for the purpose of exploration, without considering their original use. And the monsters settled into strange hierarchy, with...

I don't know if we do or not. My position is that going too much in the direction of making it "play-friendly" ruins my experience of the game. If I want that kind of playability I will play X-box or warcraft. For D&D, I need the setting to make sense. Having multi-level dungeons that correspond...

This is a good point. As long as it takes talent to make a picture, people with talent will expect to get paid. Same goes for literature, music, etc. The few who do it for free, are trampling on their own livelihood. There may be some who are willing to do so. But most of us want to make a...

Hey, we're all beautiful and unique snowflakes. My 7th grade Social Studies teacher said so.

Doesn't that make it a Genre Convention? And it didn't work very well. It was done becuase it had been done for so long no one questioned it. But toward the late 80s we all started to question its believability. It was very contrived, and required serious suspension of disbelief.

The thing that made d20 work for me, was the skills. I think 4E would need to take a different approach with skills to work for a modern setting. More skills. Also, I never found leveling very useful for modern settings either. Too much discrepancy in power levels doesn't work well for genres...

How dare you assume your post offended someone. I am someone, and I was not in any way offended by your post. It was a reasonable statement of fact, and I am outraged you so quickly conclude I don't agree. Implying that I am somehow unable to follow your line of thought, because I once got an...

1) By your own example, you are reducing sex to rolls. You have players make rolls for things like contraception/pregnancy. 2) I don't think your group is made up of jerks at all. I was speaking very generally about Mature Gaming, and problems it can raise, and not speaking about your group...

The above poster makes some good points. Something people often overlook. Players enjoy the game less, if the DM just says yes to all their requests. As a player, if I get everything I want, there its like finding a cheat on a video game. It gets boring really fast. If the setting always bends...

I am not usually a fan of Political Correctness, but in this instance I agree with Paws n Play. I didn't start life in the Ghetto, but I have found myself there a number of times, and i have lots of friends who live there. Paws is right, people live in ghettoes. The use of the term feels racist...

There is nothing wrong with players expecting opportunities to be heroic, but I agree with the OP's general point that the game world shouldn't be there to simply service their characters. Actually I noticed this problem emerge about 5-6 years ago in my own game. Prior to that I had never had...

Honestly, I don't think you should reduce this to mechanics or rolls. And players who want to explore their character's sex lives, should think of the other people around the table first.

Personally I am okay with violence and gore, but the sex stuff always becomes a problem in the groups I have been in.

I can't believe it has been a year either. He is the patron saint of our hobby.

This is a biased narrative. Both sides engaged in rude and offensive posts from the beginning. It wasn't a matter of one side being good and the other bad. It was a matter of no one accepting posters making claims they disagreed with, and believing this was suitable grounds for being impolite...

That doesn't prove it was all in people's heads. It just shows people couldn't tell the difference between cane sugar and corn syrup. But the sweetness level was roughly the same as the old formula, and sweetness was what people were raging over. I am sure nostalgia was part of it as well; but...