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There is no solution to this problem because the entire world is filled with bad people who act badly and our society reinforces boorish behavior by portraying it favorably on TV shows that children watch. For example, the character Sam on Cheers is constantly harrassing women, and this is...

If every village has weird stuff going on, then you're really overloading the players with too much weird stuff to deal with. Most villages should have hum-drum problems, and if your players are into it, they can have fun dealing with that.

Parents should be teaching their sons how to behave themselves around women. I think the absence of fathers from many young men's lives is the biggest problem. A young man with a father will be cuffed on the head if he disrespects his mother or sisters.

My game is popular because my players get to do awesome stuff, and I don't get in their way, I allow it to happen. All too often, I see DMs on Facebook whining that their players are getting away with too much awesome stuff and asking for advice on how to put a stop to it. If that's your...

I think the lesson this thread teaches is that if you want to eat, don't try to write for a living.

When I was 20, I quit the journalism major because I could already see there were too many journalism students and a very small number of jobs for them. I never looked back. Now, I'm a lawyer and I still write for a living, but I can make a decent amount of money. I don't recommend YOU go to...

I concur. Chessex maps are best (I have two), and wet erase pens only. Definitely do not use purple, it stains.

I avoid this problem by avoiding game conventions. I went to a game convention once, and my sense of smell was assaulted by all the other people who obviously didn't take showers. My advice is to stay home and only play with people you know, or people who know people you know. If somebody...

Your scope is way too big. Narrow it down to one thing you want to do. You can't do everything.

If you're playing with kids, you don't really need rules at all. The rules are only to keep the adults happy that it's a game, and not "pretend."

Anyone who gets offended by how cultures are represented in a D&D game must have all their real problems in life solved already.

I think this is the rare occasion where the DM has to put his foot down and say, "No, you can't rob the magic shop." Otherwise, you are forced to create a mini-adventure dungeon every time the PCs go shopping. This is a game-breaker in my opinion, as PCs are supposed to be heroes helping the...

It's a jury-rig, saying starships can't target individuals. In the real world, large weapons mounted on battleships or helicopters or fighter planes can do devastating damage to individuals.

It was with eager hands that I unwrapped the Starfinder Core Rulebook, and at this juncture, I've played it three times, once as a GM and twice as a player in someone else's world. All I can is, there's a lot of rules, over 500 pages of rules, and there are many, many charts and indexes. And...

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In most science fiction settings, aliens are just humans with ridges glued to their foreheads, or plastic pointy ears. A truly alien race would be unplayable by a human, because we would not even be able to comprehend the way they think.

A race that saw the future as clearly as it sees the past would be a good player character race. Prior to the start of each session, the GM would take the player playing that character to another room and show him all the stat blocks of every monster the party would meet that night, the map of...

Here's what I'd like Starfinder to get rid of: Zero level spells that are pretty useless, because there's always a higher level spell that does the job better. Mundane items that are even more useless than zero level spells, made useless by design so people don't actually throw a flask of oil...

I will buy Starfinder out of curiosity, but I probably won't play it. We abandoned Pathfinder because there were so many problems with it, and unless Starfinder solves these problems, I won't want to start a Starfinder campaign.

The key to an evil character is he must do his evil deeds in secret, and you must not tell stories about them to the other players. There will come a time when the other characters learn how evil your character has become, but it will ruin the drama of that moment of truth, if the players...