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Did you really read that novel? Heh. What a bizarre, dark, sick -- and utlimately depressing, albeit funny -- story that one was.

No, silly. Players get to choose the alignments of their characters, do they not? What irks me is that, once they've chosen an alignment, many players lack the insight and the self-restraint to roleplay that alignment. Thus they, personally and individually, define the constraints of those...

Well, all the players I've had in my campaigns, for the past couple of years, have owned all three corebooks, and few of those players ever serve as a DM. Frankly, I wish players who have no aspirations or intentions of being a DM would own just the Player's Handbook, of the three core...

How can player characters in a DM-controlled campaign be twinked? I thought "twinked" was when, in a MMORPG like EverQuest, a player of a veteran, high-level character gives undeserved gold and magic items to a player of a new, low-level character... or something like that.

Har-har! Well, what do you know? hong has finally said something witty that made me laugh. But, then, I have a weakness for innuendos and double entendres.

I wish I could figure out something to say to get you to ignore me, hong. :p

I agree. Myself, I'm surprised by how passionate so many players are, over this issue. Yet few can agree on just what a "ranger" should be. Some players have the LotR rangers in mind, while others have the National Wildlife Federation rangers in mind, while others still have the US Airborne...

If we were talking about personal computers here, then yes, I'd say you guys are outdated. But we're talking about role-playing games; specifically, D&D. What we're talking about here is merely a form of entertainment, and how you play it (or what version of the rules you play by) is largely a...

Something that has worked quite well within my campaigns is my "heroic luck" rules. I've been using these rules for the past 2-3 years; my players really like them, and I've yet to see them being abused or unbalancing the game. Basically, when rolling a d20 for attack rolls, saving throws...

That was such a good book! Different, yet still a heroic-fantasy novel (albeit a dark one), and by far a cut above the hack writing you see in this genre, nowadays. I wish I could find a copy of Drachenfels, since it's been long out of print. (Someone had lent me theirs, but that was years ago...

Interesting. I suppose it could be just a joke... But then, it appears someone actually bidded for this guy's service, and the auction was completed. Thus a deal was actually made for a service that is surely illegal. (A misdemeaner; not a felony. But still... ) And this, on one of the top...

Heh. Kudos for that one, pennywiz, even if you did replace "you" for "thou".

Ain't that the truth! Why are they called trolls, anyway? What odious, slinky monster lurks in dark places, yet thrives on heat and fire? What mischievous (if not outright malicious) being likes to trick people and stir up trouble in a community, just so it can sit back and feed off the...

Is he being sincere? Or is he merely being a troll again? Who knows? Who cares? Once a troll, always a troll, I say. And I, for one, have no respect for them... :rolleyes:

Ah, I see... You trolls are so purposely offensive, and all for your personal amusement and gratification, as you stroke your little egos at our expense. You're all such master-debaters. (Pun intended.) Well, I said from the beginning that I knew this post was a troll, but that there were some...

It takes more than just a dictionary to know and understand the subtleties and nuances of the english language (or of any language, for that matter). When I say someone is "not a typical" person, it doesn't necessarily mean there is something bad or wrong about the person, but it does mean that...

I didn't say role-playing gamers are "abnormal"; I said they're "not typical". Big difference, there. But for those of you who have difficulties with words and their common definitions, I'll illustrate... Daytime temperatures of 75 degrees, outdoors, in the middle of July, in southern Texas, is...

There is a four-letter noun that I'd like to replace your "GOAT" with, Talath, but I've heard mentions about someone's grandmother reading these message boards, so I'll refrain. I'd also like to tell you what you can do with that +1 baseball bat of yours... but I'll refrain from that too. :D

Back in the '80s, TSR -- the burgeon giant in the RPG industry, though still relatively a pipsqueak compared to the true giants of the entertainment industries -- tried mass-selling roleplaying gaming materials through major retail outlets such as Sears, K-Mart, B. Dalton, etc. It didn't work...

Well, of course, the roleplaying that requires a rulebook -- specifically, D&D, which has three of them; with the Player's Handbook alone encompassing almost 300 pages -- is what we're talking about, here. So, why throw in all those other "roleplaying" examples, and cloud the issue? I'll say it...