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There are risks in naming the individual. One can sometimes mitigate those risks by stating only the most empirical facts: "we have, in the past, entrusted (individual name) with DM duties at (convention name), and as of the current con, we will no longer entrust (name) with DM roles." Astute...

I mostly agree. I have a preference for TRPG in which players take *active* interest in each other's characters. I don't just want other players to graciously put up with the scenes in which my character does his thing; I want to contribute to the story, within the scope of my one character...

At the table where I regularly play, the paladin player has a "town" spell prep list and a "dangerous territory" spell prep list. Maybe the paladin and the cleric would gain in-game efficiency if they coordinated to make sure that one or other has Locate Object and Lesser Restoration; but maybe...

IMO this makes BRG's refusal to accept John Dodd's assessment, even less understandable. How can BRG maintain "I don't know", how can BRG cast doubt on Dodd's decision, even after reading Dodd's account of his process? I have a speculative answer to that question, and it's not pretty. It's also...

I'm familiar with the "see your reactions" part, from the post by one of the players. What's this about a gaming company putting Rolfe up to a stunt? If that has been discussed here in this thread, then I missed it. Is there evidence that James Desborough was in contact with Rolfe *before* UK...

5ekyu asked: "What would be the threshold that you would be comfortable with the choice to say "yeah, nope, let's not let them do this anymore at our public events?" If you cannot name ANYTHING a GM might do, which would result in your approval for John Dodd's decision; if not even "the GM...

I hereby direct you to post #213, in this thread. You can find post #213 on your own, right? Did you skip past it on the way here? If so, then take your allegations of "rushing to judgement without full information", and apply them directly to yourself. That post includes a link, and it also...

Thanks! What's at the heart of good playing in a RPG? Responding as a protagonist? Some of my favorite moments as a player, are times when I inspired another player to high-immersion inter-character RP dialogue. Those moments are worthwhile, in the context of a story in which the PC party is...

Hold yourself to that standard of "details matter"; read exact phrasing, in context; and THEN tell us exactly where you see which gamers defending 'mob mentality', on what basis.

That's a bold, unconventional position. We might even call it... edgy.

Whether it's more important to hold James Gunn accountable for his actions, or whether it's more important that GoG 3 get produced ASAP, is a matter of opinion. Gunn took the opportunity to step up, admit that he'd acted (in his past) without proper regard for consequences to others, and...

I recall a character in a Hero System (Champions) game, who had Overall Skill Levels, with the limitation that he could only use them while recounting an anecdote from his decades of service all across the Empire, and applying the lesson from that anecdote to the current situation. Was I...

Would the Nobel team consider a post in a TRPG forum as a candidate for the Literature prize? If so, that might go a long way to break the elitist stigma against assigning literary value to anything connected with the fantasy and science fiction genres.

On one hand, clerics, paladins and some druids already have spells known, in the sense of always prepared: clerics have domain spells, Land druids have terrain-specific spells, and paladins have Oath-specific spells. On another hand, if the issue is "players spend too much table time deciding...

Usage of that term has varied, over time. George Orwell was socialist, anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and after his service in the Spanish Civil War, anti-Stalinist. He used the term "politically correct" to mean something like this: "the view which the Party has declared as orthodoxy...

If you and I were in a one-on-one discussion, then I would work within your distinction between narratology and literature. We're not. When you can get Maxperson, BRG, Hussar, and *everyone else in the thread including the drop-ins*, to follow your usage, THEN you can talk down to me on the...

Yeah. This is vaguely analogous to a discussion of a maths problem, in which every now and then someone new wanders in, and argues whether we're applying the proper order of operations (exponents THEN multiplication THEN addition). Or perhaps it's closer to people wandering in and arguing...

This was the third post, following the OP and my pesky "so what?" response. 5ekyu, you were... not wrong.

Yes and no. In most mainstream, bog-standard D&D, this is often a reasonable position, *especially in combat scenes regulated by initiative order*. In a non-combat scene, within a D&D game, this could be unreasonable. Consider the previous scenario in which the PCs split up on arrival at a...

Yes, but when you say "the game being played", do you mean the system and rule book? I am not aware of any difference between 3.5 or 4E rules on player narration versus 5E rules on player narration, because I'm not aware of *any* rules in 5E on player narration. There is some tradition and...