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While I also like most of the other games mentioned on this thread, I have to pick Ten Candles. Everyone dies at the end, period. And as a GM, it's always amazing to watch the players realize that they can't minmax or cheese the game; they can pick whatever goodies or successes they want each...

Anything "can be argued". The problem is that the players shouldn't be arguing this. For starters, while they're justifying why they went to all those lengths to subdue the person, they are admitting to having shot him - something that a prosecutor would otherwise have to prove beyond a...

"Get to"? There's an inalienable right to attend conventions or participate in particular gaming communities? Sounds more like Geek Social Fallacies than begging a question. That aside, we already know how to handle other misbehavior that we don't put in scare quotes. If Bob shamelessly cheats...

This is an excellent example of how one can use the curious grammar of English to sanitize awkward facts. "The incident happened" excises the actor. Mr. Webb didn't do anything; he certainly didn't make a decision to get drunk and harass someone to the point that he had to be physically...

Except for Anne Perry, they're all dead. So we really don't have to worry about Ernest Hemingway or Norman Mailer showing up drunk at PaizoCon or any other con and stalking people. (Even setting aside the odd comparison between classic works of literature and RPG supplements....) Let's also...

There are people who think that sitting around and using crunchy-rules books to run games about killing orcs is exactly as much fun as calculus homework. There are people who find dungeon-crawling or WoD to be utterly unrewarding. And there are people who pick up new systems because they want...

Who said anything about D&D? Which, by the way, is pretty much a non-standard in terms of realism; "more realistic than D&D" is like saying "safer than eating mercury". Pendragon is an odd choice to bring out as a champion of History and Realism, since it's an RPG explicitly set in a mythology...

"Quasi-realistic" is another way of saying "not realistic". And it's not about whether a particular setting is or isn't 'okay'. If everyone in the group is happy with things, then by all means, set your game in Aggressively Unrealistic Medieval England and deviate from real history all you...

Unless you're running a Harn-esque straight up simulation of a particular region and time period, "realistic" isn't accurate. It's a matter of which elements the GM chooses to keep and which to discard. Which is fine, but then own it, instead of shrugging and saying that golly gee you just...

So from what you've said: Your group has interpersonal conflict and drama. You don't invite female players unless they're your children or girlfriends of your existing players. You ran a game at complete odds with the style of game you knew a new player enjoyed. #1 and #3 are going to turn...

"Forced female involvement" is a very odd way to phrase it. I don't think they're going out press-ganging female game designers. Blind audition format is not how any game company does business. Game companies work with writers they've worked with before; they work with big-name writers whose...

I missed the part where GR said that they're limiting this to female authors because they think men are worse at writing or that men are jerks? Because that sure would be sexism against men. But I'm not following how wanting to give an opportunity to an underrepresented and often marginalized...

Why?

Lwaxy, do you really not understand the irony of your ordering Americans to think about blackface in a particular way that matches your thinking - based on the views of your Nigerian ex-husband (nice twist on the 'black best friend' btw!) and some random German nationals - and then flipping out...

Keep in mind, also, that conspiracies are not well-oiled engines of evil. They're run by humans (okay, mostly by humans, this is Delta Green). People make mistakes, they have petty fights, they forget to change their passwords, they get overheard in public places, they play office politics.

So how did the zombie game go?! I'd also love to hear whether anyone's run Dread well as a con game. I'm really hesitant to do so because of the questionnaires - in my experience players tend to need time to prepare these, plus it's helpful for the GM to have them long enough ahead to allow...

I beg to differ, sir! It is you who are most vexingly located on the opposite coast! Eunomiac, I love when players do that. I think my favorite in the 'pure atmosphere' category was the player who, in response to "You wish you could go back and apologize for what you did; why can’t you?"...

How'd it go?

No, if I enjoyed ruining other people's good time, I'd do it myself instead of getting vicarious thrills when somebody else did it because I'm too chicken to do it.

Actually, the easiest way out of this is better writing: "The DM first describes the room, then indicates what monsters are present." Or "The DM describes the room, and then describes the monsters in that room." No need for the pronoun at all, and I suppose you could throw 'to the players' in...