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A reasonable ask so I will back off. @Ruin Explorer also reasonably answered me although points were raised I would otherwise dispute or clarify but will not do so to respect your request.

That's not a very helpful response. So if an NPC run by the GM adventures with the party from start to finish (or a significant part of the adventure) are they an NPC or a GMPC? Maybe I just don't see the difference others do, to me any character not run by a player is an NPC and is consequently...

That's a pretty broad statement. Both myself and at least one other person gave examples of why we do this and how we avoid your accusation. You may not believe us and stand firm in your conviction but that doesn't make it so.

I'm assuming the question was directed at me. During the first TPK a retreat was impossible. During the second (remember, it almost ended in a TPK but didn't) there were many factors; retreat was possible but we would be running headlong into another fight and we would not have been able to...

I dislike speaking for others but I feel like you are misinterpreting what @Laurefindel posted. My interpretation is not, and I also may be missing his point, that he is letting them off easy, as you seem to claim, but that he will, to paraphrase, challenge his players based on what his group...

Not to derail the thread, but I think a big cause of what you are describing in media, RPGs aside, is the consolidation of media companies. Fewer book publishers, movie studios and other production houses means fewer points of entry for new talent and more reliance on products that sell well and...

I rarely use puzzles with my current gaming group because several of my players don't seem to find them fun. However, some do so I do through them in on occasion (or they are already in an adventure I bought) and when they get stuck I think the answer is simple - your players are not their...

I only take the benevolent DM stance when running D&D, or more specifically Castles and Crusades (or in the past, Pathfinder 1E), since I haven't run D&D in years. I will usually create an NPC to fill a gap in the party. For example, if no one wants to play a cleric then I will make one and play...

I've tried to do tat a couple of times but never went back to the original campaign so I stopped. Now, when I run a long campaign, I run it start to finish

Castles and Crusades is my go to when the rare occasion presents itself that I want to run a D&D game. You are right that it's a D20 hack but it simplifies the D20 system while having an old school feel. When I play it I feel like I am playing a 2E game (even though I started with B/X and 1E, 2E...

I seem to be pretty lucky. If I want to try a new game my group is happy to give it a try. The biggest problem I run into isn't their willingness but their adaptability to other game styles.

Reading. Mostly Sci-fi & fantasy but a fair amount of science & skepticism. Comics. I used to have about 20 long boxes but I sold some and gave a majority away to the local children's hospital. I read them digitally almost exclusively now. TV & Movies. Mostly Sci-fi but other stuff as well...

Eight pages or longer and I am out. It's too much of a hassle to keep up since I don't check in here daily. Also, I find that by that point there has been so much thread drift that the original topic has been lost. Forums are not where I chose to come for long form reading, I have enough books...

I agree in part. We may also be paying for the lack of real competition in the eReader/eBook marketplace. There are the Nook and Kobo but their market share is tiny compared to the Kindle. We can't say for sure what would happen in this market if there were real competition but my understanding...

Most recently was the 7th edition of Call of Cthulhu and the Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign. Actually, more recently I Kickstarted KULT: Divinity Lost - Dark Realms and Other Horrors including the core rules. I don't actually have it yet so I'm not sure if it counts.

I have so much class I have no choice but to multiclass :p Seriously though, I have played multiclass characters in every version of D&D I have played (and that is a lot of them), excluding 4E & 5E since I never played them, including spinoffs like Pathfinder. I always do so because it fits my...

Depends on the game. In D&D or D&D-like systems the answer is no (with some exceptions) but otherwise it depends on the game/setting. My biggest, but not only, problem with it in D&D, at least in the past since I don't play the current system, is that it is usually a totally different subset of...

SWADE Castles & Crusades Two of the Forged in the Dark games (Blades in the Dark, Scum & Villainy or Band of Blades) Call of Cthulhu Arcana Unearthed or Arcana Evolved. Probably the former Tiny Taverns The Strange

I'm not saying I totally disagree with you here but, in my experience, it's not uncommon for the recognition to regularly go to the same people. At a prior sales job myself and a small handful of people always were recognized for the most sales. I didn't think much about it, after all I was...

I've run Night Below twice, Keep on the Borderlands a few times, U1-3 (The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh series), The Temple of Elemental Evil (including Village of Hommlet), Against the Giants several times and a few of those leading into D1 - D3 and Queen of the Demonweb Pits