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Not everyone is going to feel that way, especially if it's a character they've spent years on and collected various 'good' items on. When you're level 10, are you going to want to swap and get, per DMG p 38, 500gp + 1d10x25gp, plus normal starting equipment? Doubt it. You're going to want to...

What would your feelings be on this if by turning into a tentacle monster, you no longer can wear armor? You no longer have appropriate appendages to use your weapons or most skills? You no longer know the proper somantic gestures? What's your buy-in threshold for that?

While D&D doesn't 'hurt anybody', I will absolutely push back about things not being harmful. 'Bleed' is an absolutely real thing. I've seen it at tables, I've seen it online on MUDs/MUSHes. Seen it on MMOs. And I don't mean 'bleed' in the sense of Chick Tract 'Oh no! Blackleaf!' but in...

We had this regarding drowning come up in my gaming group. Apparently one of the players, a good friend, had really buried back memories of losing a friend to drowning. And that's not always a topic that comes up in Session Zero. I've had to swerve mid-session during my Eternal Winter game...

I think the problem with that has always been baked into the system even since Basic. Gygax's entire philosophy was that any PC is always innately different from an NPC of the same heritage. Generally named NPCs got to have character classes and levels, but the rest were all zero-levels. I...

HP Lovecraft's Nemesis combined with Billy Joel's Piano Man.

I feel a snag here is playing with people with limited experience often increases the amount of time they stare at their character sheet looking for the answer. Hell, I've been playing since '82 and I still catch myself doing that, moreso with systems I'm less familiar with

Boy. Castle and City sure take me back. I discovered them right as I was really getting into D&D

True, but this is a good way for people to possibly find a movie they'll love. Because, what if you don't particularly like either of the movies? What if you've only seen one, or part of two?

Stranger than Fiction. First, best Will Ferrell movie because he's just a normal guy. He's an IRS auditor who, one day, starts hearing a voice narrating his actions, and how he doesn't know that soon he will be dead. He overhears Emma Thompson talking and realizes it's her voice. She's a...

I'm reminded in this discussion of the Amber Diceless back in '91 where, since there are no dice, the person with highest Warfare won combat... unless the other person got sneaky and narrated the other person into a bad situation. It was an interesting system - you had character points, and you...

I know I probably don't represent the normal sample size, but I never heard of 'aetherpunk' until this conversation. I've gamed since 1982. I consider myself decently exposed to fantasy and scifi... never heard of it. Personally, instead of the nominclature, I feel the issue with Eberron...

Is it? Personally, I feel Lovecraft traffics particularly heavy in the trope that the Good, Proper Civilized Urbanite can barely navigate outside of the city proper. Look at Shadows over Innsmouth where the character is at a serious disadvantage because of being the Good, Proper Outsider - the...

I try to reiterate this with players, especially new players. I can find a way to work your character out without it being the 'end' of the character. I feel Babylon 5 really did a good job of this with several actors, notably the series lead who was having real life struggles and opted to...

At least in the case of being very educated meaning your worse in social situations I feel fits with the tropes, especially given the area and timeframe. Think of how many period shows or movies you see where the educated outsider gets his come-uppance and can't fit in with the locals. Or...

I haven't played Rolemaster in forever, but I liked the spell lists. I remember people getting corrupted and getting access to new lists. One of the PCs had robes that were white/blue - if he wore the white out, he got bonuses to one set of spell lists, if he wore the blue side out he was...

Reminds me of Hucksters in Deadlands, where they use cards to cast their spells since.... Hoyle's Book of Games is a disguised paranormal tome

Ars Magica. Magic is basically (verb) (noun): Create fire, destroy life. The fact you can gain XP for having your character take time to write research papers like some grad student is also very cool.

I believe this is an issue comics have in a lot of ways. There are events that cannot be changed generally - the Waynes will always leave Bruce an orphan, Uncle Ben will die and give Peter Parker guilt, etc - but what they are running into are things where... Marvel used to have a policy where...

While I agree generally with what you're saying, I don't know that this exactly is what the original post was talking about. Some of the early issues brought up were about note-taking for example or other non-immersive behaviors. Do you want your inhabiting Gonad the Barbarian to be judged by...