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Yes a lot of times the rest of the party IS bored because this only ties into one persons story. And I'm bored. Because I dont want to run even one adventure about your stupid cousin much less a dozen. I want to run the adventure I planned, with bigger, more important, more interesting goals...

Yes. In fact when I say campaign I mean the entire chain of events that involves those same players and the same group of adventurers roughly. I've noticed people seem to mean what we used to call adventures when they say campaign now. Like if its lord of the rings. ALL of the books, hobbit to...

Sometimes we'll do more lighthearted campaigns. They're short though. I like a good 6-8 session space opera for that sort of thing. Not in my regular serious game though. Not usually no. When i start a new campaign I tell the group what the theme and general shape is going to be and usually I...

No its need. If its not built up then no one cares, its not fun and we're all wasting our time sitting around the table doing it. Because the only point to playing a game is to be having fun. Except that its NOT a tool. Its a complication. In the same way that a screwdriver is a tool and a...

Yes it is more work. Much, much more work. And annoyance. And requires enough cheese to choke a packers fan. And I'm entirely lactose intolerant when it comes to my campaigns. No ridiculously unlikely coincidences, no nonsensical forced relationships, no cliched C list plot devices, and...

Because it seems like your catering to one person more then the rest for one thing. And because that characters backstory has nothing to do with anyone else. So why should the other characters risk their lives for it and put their other goals on hold to chase after one guys past? When your...

A. If I need to delve into a backstory for motivation then I've done a terrible job building up the adventure in the first place. There should be a reason in the here and now why they want to go there. B. Still doesnt help with the other 4 players at the table. Its not their background after...

Dont tell me. I play with big groups, chances are the other 5 players at the table dont want to show up and watch you play out your background story or follow along while you shoot " bobs travel documentary the D&Ding." If that island happens to come up anyway in the course of the campaign and...

I dont incorporate backstories at all. On the whole I find them generally obnoxious, both as a player and a gm. I tell people that right from the beginning though. Keep it generic, just explain why your character chose to involve themselves in life and death adventures instead of a 9-5 job. You...

Of course its about whether you can communicate. Thats all language is, communication. If they want food and they found a way to make a noise or sign something to express that then its language. Thats all we're doing with each other. Grunting rhythmically, and using body language, both subtle...

There are plenty of people who are also quite lacking in what they can communicate. I wouldnt say they dont have a language.

Seems like an unnecessarily small definition of language, which is just another way of saying verbal communication. If your communicating your ideas and emotions your using language, and you have language, otherwise you couldn't be using it. You might have a small vocabulary and you might have a...

The whole question is kinda silly and arbitrary no matter how you decide it really. Firstly racism isnt even the right word. Racism is hating other ethnicities or cultures of your same species. These are different species. The analogy isnt mexicans and chinese, its dogs and cats, or sometimes...

I left during 4e for pathfinder and then for my own NWoD mod. I like that the system is very simple for on the fly rulings and creation and I can teach a new player in 5 minutes just by showing them the character sheet. After getting older and having kids and job taking up more and more of my...

The simplest answer might be to just sit down with the players who dont want to play anything but D&D and find out why. If you guys have been playing together a while and they generally like how you run games you should be able to get them to at least TRY a session or two of another system that...

I disagree with the OP. I've used NWoD basic ruleset for a bunch of different settings. Everything from an American revolution era game about taming the west and dealing with native creatures that eat settlers while fighting off the natives to star wars and a Firefly type of setting. That basic...

i pretty heavily houserule just about every system i use but I've only written one complete from scratch. It was for a very specific campaign I'd had in mind for a while that was set in a colonial era and focused on the dangers of fairy tales and other folklore being real but in a generally real...

Magic and the spirit world, the afterlife. Pretty much everything that touches on those. I also like the idea of ley lines. So I include those in most of my worlds.

I definitely prefer rules lighter the older I get. Part of it is not wanting to learn or teach a huge book full of complex rules. And part of is that I just want to play through an adventure with my friends. I dont want to look up rules, talk about rules at the table or even really think about...

Id have whoever the boy actually belongs to just pay the ransom or whatever. You say its for political leverage? Okay the target caves. Boy is returned. However you can save them as villains by making it apparent that not only should they be punished but since it worked once they will do it...