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The friend I kicked from the one Planescape game was allowed in other games. The suicidal, or at best, mazeable intention of seducing the Lady hit my "deliberately being disruptive" button. As a GM, I play the characters enemies to the best of their descriptions, but I also play their friends...

I'm sure I mentioned this once before in some other topic, but when I was in college, I was running a Planescape game. One of my friends just wanted his character to seduce the Lady of Pain. After telling him the exact consequences of such an action, I forbade him from playing in that game. This...

I'm pondering some of the proscriptive grammar rules myself. End a sentence with a preposition? As long is it doesn't make it redundant go ahead. Answering the phone and they're asking for you? Honestly, "this is him" or "this is her" sound a lot better than "this is s/he". Don't even get me...

I'm still fond of World Tree's "it's not the GM's responsibility to remember your characters abilities, that's why they're on your character sheet". The wording is definitely different, but that is the gist.

I'm becoming fond of "you", though that might be uncomfortable immersive for some, and "your character". I also admit to not liking making role playing games mainstream. Maybe it's because I enjoyed little statements like "you have to be smart to play those games" even though I know they aren't...

I guess it really depends on where we are in the game. Gathering the group as a GM, I have a sort of absolute power over who plays. Players are free to agree with me or not. If I still have players after those who disagree leave, I still have a game. If I don't, I propose another game or I play...

And while not technically wrong, singular "they" just sounds silly.

If I didn't need it as the "engine" for the Forbidden Kingdoms setting, I would be done with D&D. As it is, I still stopped after 3.5, and I admit I don't really understand people who do the "D&D did X I didn't like in edition Y so much that I left, but now here's a new edition so I'll give it a...

If we're going to stick to prescriptive grammar, remember that certain species are automatically assumed to be one gender or the other until you know, e.g., Humans are male, cats are female, dogs are male, and so on. As a fan of World Tree, which I know did not create the pronoun, I am fond of...

I didn't start out caring about it, but over the years I came to view "you can kill beings of race X with impunity with no questions asked because they're all evil" as disgusting. This lead me to my belief that "even against evil, genocide is evil". After experiencing many systems, I am more...

While there are systems that encourage socialization over combat, whether through rewarding non-violent solutions, punishing violent solutions, or both, ultimately it's really up to the group.

I would prefer to stay with Brick & Mortar, and right now I have to say I prefer to buy online. This is because the nearest game stores aren't all that close to where I live, and even when I'm in those areas, other factors such as parking and the store's location on the street affect my attitude...

After several years of not knowing any system other than D&D, I joined a gaming club at my first college (it was the first piece of mail in my mailbox). At first, I didn't vary it too much, and I even had one of the GMs I really liked call me on being fixed on a system. This annoyed me at first...

In Grotesque Tactics II: Dungeons & Donuts, they do. Wood Elves go au natural though.

People going out of their way to avoid cliches has been done so often that it is itself a cliche.

Keep in mind that avoiding clichés is a cliché in itself.

As DMMike said, Stats are simplified to 3. There are attributes that can add more information to stats, like having a good Body stat and being super strong. Defects give back character points and generally add a mechanical or roleplaying problem to the character. Math for calculating Health...

I recently saw Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters and think it would be cool to run a game in this setting. The question is which system in my collection do I use? * Alternity 1998 sci-fi focused but flexible system * Forbidden Kingdoms - D&D 3(.5)E pulp novel emulation metasetting * HARP Fantasy...

I can be for against novelty dice depending on the theme. For example, I have a d6 with the numbers in kanji, a d6 in a d6, and a d12 with astrolo(gy/nomy) symbols on it, two of which I don't recognize. And I have a d30 just because.

When the GM of the GURPS group I'm in hands over the GMing reigns, I plan on politely bowing out. I'm sure the reason he wants to stick to GURPS is that he knows that everyone in the group knows it, and unfortunately I'm both a little bored with the system and disappointed that he didn't ask if...