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No DM EVER has done a great job of being the eyes and ears of the players in the game world. It just isn't possible. Every single second of game play the players are effectively missing thousands of different clues as to what is going on in the player characters game world. Is the blood running...

To me it looks like the DM is making a mistake. He is taking a out of game issue(the player being on the phone and not paying attention like he should) and bringing it in game intentionally. I would pause the game and say something like"Hey man can you put away the phone please?, you being on...

You Sir, should not mock those who have the nerve to play the Hair Game! Back to your pedestrian life and leave the Glory to those better suited to the task!

Actually guys I'm not REALLY looking to make guns more lethal. That might be a side effect of what I'm looking to do though. What I want is for armor to become (or start to become) more obsolete and to advance technology past the medieval era. To give it a more renaissance feel. Realistic...

I'm fine with the way firearms work in 5E. it really just makes them like everything else BUT what if you want to make them more like real life? What if you want the game world to be in the throws of advancement? What if Firearms ignored armor? Just punched right through it! If that was the...

I do often play without a grid. It's fine. Heck I even played without one in Pathfinder. Sometimes a grid can add more fun but a lot of the time it doesn't.

I have seen THIS more than a few times. Some people really like to DM and can't handle not running the show. I have seen DM's who were otherwise nice fellows tell the group they are burned out and need a break but when someone else stats running a game the old DM seems to constantly compare it...

Never played a long game of D&D without house rules. Short games yes but the longer the game the longer the list of house rules. I would actually consider a by the book game inferior to a house ruled game unless everyone involved found the official rules for every situation that came up in game...

This reminds me of Hackmaster comic and the Hackmaster Call in Hotlines.

I received by Fate Core hardback and dice in the mail and I am busy devouring the rules. It was a pleasant surprise the dice had three sets of dice in it and that the book was hardback! So far so good! It's a lot easier for me to understand it in book form verse pdf.

I only have one deal breaker. If we sit down at a table and we don't have fun. That's it. Other than that I'm good to go. Hack and Slash or Deep Immersive Role Playing, Tactical Wargame with miniatures or theater of the mind. Rule Crunch Extreme or without rules at all. With house rules or...

So? Put their story arch in the middle of a meat grinder! Also the BEST meat grinders are all about the story in regards to why you are devoting so much time and energy delving down into the meat grinder. Megadungeons are a lot of work for everyone and stupid hard for characters. Both players...

Did they change the meaning of Lay pipe? I'm a old dude so it really might not mean what it did back in the day.

My dirty secret is that I really like the player characters and do not want them to die. I keep the illusion going that I like to kill PC's as if It gives me DM Creed with my fellow DM's. I run the game as slightly antagonistic while in reality I am a pushover and love to see the pc's beat the...

It would be cool but you hardly have to make it all random. There are many other games out there that have solo books that you can draw ideas from. Tunnels and Trolls has tons of solo adventures. You could make them like the old choose your own adventure books but with D&D rules. I can see a...

It's just your table. Every table is different. At my table it's Darkvision. Everyone has to have Darkvision all the time. The guys wouldn't pick human if it got two free feats! I can hear it now" I will play a human with two feats, if you make Darkvision a feat".

We all (6 of us) played Pathfinder for years but have moved on from it. We now play 5E. I can honestly say we like 5E better than Pathfinder(despite the HUGE pile of Pathfinder books screaming at me from my bookshelves). With that said, 5E is not the end for us. We will keep playing it till we...

I have experimented with 5E without using Feats by running a non-feat campaign alongside my feat using game. Unfortunately I also experimented with many other rule options in that game so I really am not sure of any conclusions other than it is possible to have a very fun game of 5E without Feats.

Conceding and Taken Out I'm having a difficult time with this. So a player can concede a fight and they describe how it ended? I'm having some trouble (again probably because of D&D) picturing this in play where it makes since in a group atmosphere. Does the player say something like" Cozak...

For my Fantasy Game I had thought to use the Fate Freeport Companion as inspiration. I think it might be easier for my players to get it if we used the Strength Dexterity Constitution (aspects) but I'm really not sure.