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I'm only on page 3 of the discussion, but it doesn't sound like a cohesive group. And that's not on you. You're doing the best you can to provide for them, as well as have enjoyment yourself. Having your wife not enjoy the game is also a different issue - as you said, you want to prioritize...

Agreed. And when he invents the revolver and gives it to the kid and says "When you meet the person who killed your father, stick this in their stomach and pull it til all you hear are clicks and tell them 'Lou Ricetti sends his regards.'" The engineer was THE rules lawyer. "Oh, the cost of...

Reading this reminded me of the fact that Prince Adam/He-man's mother is an astronaut from earth. I haven't personally done it in one of my games, but I'm reminded of the old novel series Guardians of the Flame. The premise was there was a gaming club, and their GM, one of their professors, is...

If you're the DM, the sky really is the limit. Traps galore. Golems that spray grease - both to be slipped on my your average Dex 10 footman, as well as to be prompting flambe'd by support flamethrower droids. The layout of his tower should be designed to optimize funneling enemies into...

This reminds me of one of my favorite gaming moments. I'm running 4e. I don't remember the module name, but it came after Keep on the Shadowfell. Party was level 7. The next problem was getting through a room where duergar had set up a blockade and were just guarding their border, hunkered...

I don't know - do you mean TSR releasing D&D or do you mean D&D three-years in from creation? My understanding is three years in from creation, D&D was being photcopied and passed around like Grateful Dead tapes. Pre-TSR

I don't know. He took that heel turn during the Slap Bet...

I think this proves my point. This HAS to be trolling. First, understanding capitalism means there are very few objectively great benevolent products. The only that comes to mind is when Volvo developed automobile seat belts, and CHOSE not to patent them for our benefits. What happens, even...

I'm an old man. The vibe I've read off of the original post, and follow-ups, really makes me think of a college freshman who just discovered communism and 'The best way is if we're all a collective and we all are equals and share' and if only us fellow proles knew what we were doing. You...

Not exactly. Using their restaurant destroying coupons analogy, the publisher comes to your house and actually destroys them.

I'm definitely waiting to see OP reply, especially if they have connection to this system. Brennan may say it's a masterpiece, but ... is he going to run Dimension 20 using that or D&D? I'm pretty sure I know the answer. Critical Role has Daggerheart and Candela Obscura, and play both. But...

Something I've found handy personally, and I don't know if there are others out there who've done this, but there's been a few 'seasons' where game designer John Wick does 31 Days of Character Creation. It's exposed me to many games I've heard of but maybe never been exposed to like Pendragon...

By 'equal at the table', what I meant to state was that the DM has an equal right to enjoyment at the table. If both the DM and the players have enjoyment from 'Well, they never check the floor for traps so I'll put pit traps in' 'Oh, now they're using ten foot poles to avoid those traps, so...

I do feel, from my experience, narrative roleplaying was 'strange' to him. Now, players were expected to take roles and act accordingly, but I don't think he was a fan of players giving Big Theater Kid Energy at the table. And as far as player vs DM mentality, I think he saw that as a...

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AI will never replace our Snarf. I won't let it.... Now THAT should be the basis of the next Terminator remake.

I'm reminded of something I once saw on Ronald Reagan, and they said he was the kindest man, who would literally help someone out, give them the shirt off his back... and then turn around and sign a bill increasing punishments for homelessness. We all are complex, and capable of being good...

Nah, that's just Snarf being Snarf

I'm a big fan of this. A step farther: in John Wick's Orkworld, not only is session zero for building your party - a tribe of orks - but those same character points in the pool allow you to customize the tribe. Do you have a powerful dowgma (tribe mother)? Has your tribe learned how to use...

I like this idea. For some reason, it made me think of the difference between the first Death Star and the second. It's not my bit, but... the first station was operational. It was a full-on military base and staffed. The second? Not complete, mostly filled with contractors and workers.