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Many of you are asking "why have difference between genders/sexes?". It's a good question. Let's think of fantasy races. If you would accept that there many kind of elves (in one subrace) and they can't be defined in one single way, then racial bonuses and penalties would seem harsh. Just like...

Ok, I know that this is a sensitive subject, but... In RPGs, should there be difference between genders? This concept must be totally alien to younger gamers, but old school enworlders still remember the 70's. We had a game called "AD&D 1st edition". It was a massive game back in the day...

Since this seems like a good-natured thread, maybe it's not too provoking to point out that the javelin throw in D&D Olympics is a very curious event indeed. I'd like to see it.

One of the great aspects of D&D is that we get to fight monsters (it's basically included in the name!) and we have smart characters with certain level of battle-prowess. Are we really able to play these superhumanly experienced fighters & wizards in the right way? To help this, let's collect...

Petra is definitely one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in my life. Just to describe it with my meagre writing skills would be an insult to it's wonder.

Really great actors play roles like Hannibal Lecter, Derek Vinyard or Amon Göth, because it's great and challenging and hard and everything... Yes, it's their profession, but they don't just take the roles that pay the best. There's more to it, a lot more. Horrifying and disgusting things just...

Yesterday evening my players made things complicated for me in my superhero game, and I'd like some advice. So please, if you could bear with my long explanation: Background: Players are given a hint to go to Philippines and protect a witness whom is about the testify against K14-triad. Players...

Since we are sort of a global bunch here, it would be interesting to know how many of us are able to give first aid and how to resuscitate. I don't have such skills, but next month I'm going to RC's first aid course. I've also been thinking about getting first aid kit to my bicycle and maybe...

Hey, since this is a thread about military stuff, let me ask one question about U.S. army: Is it possible for a U.S. ranger to hold the rank of private? Not PFC, but private (PVT or PV2). What I've checked, all rangers seem to have at least PFC-rank. I'm not from U.S.A., so I really don't...

After a week of uninspired writing, I started my "feminist adventure" yesterday and so far my players have enjoyed it. Just to make things easier for my players, I introduced two adventures to them and they had to make choice. The other choice was more traditional adventuring, but women's rights...

Lot of great ideas in this thread. There is no simple solution, but for instance the idea about the boarding school was good. This is just my 2 cents so far, after thinking about this for some days: Feminist adventuring is of course a great idea, but the issue itself demands more education and...

Big big respect to anyone who designs their own language, but if I may humbly point out that learning a new language that your players don't speak and incorporating that into the game is more rewarding and practical then inventing a new one. I know few words of Arabic and also speak passable...

In my Greyhawk campaign I have to be extremely lenient with the law, because once my players saved a city guard captain from captivity in the mountains but since they didn't like his face, they stole his mithral chainshirt. Later on they were walking in the city centre of Istivin (about 17,000...

Thank you so much for the responses so far. Too bad I can't give Wizardru any XP, I always enjoy his insight. I've done some research at it seems that most governments simply can't take the ancient treasure or whatnot from it's finders without compensation. Some examples from Europe: Source...

I was thinking about running an Indiana Jones-ish adventure for my players based on modern times, but I started to think how complicated things are with laws... - If there would be a dungeon filled with traps and monsters, would you have the right to go there by yourself? Would your insurance...

I have slight lack of creativity here, please help me. I'm DMing superhero-game based on Marvel Comics and movies. One of the PC's has declared that she wants to defend women's right with her superpowers. I really want to listen to players, so I need to think of something related to feminism...

Yesss, I made a pre-order. Can't wait!

I still would like to point out that saying "never weekends" is a bit different from "weekends are usually bad for me". I understand that having wife and kids really kill your weekends. That's acceptable. But dating someone and saying "ok, now I have a girlfriend, so no more weekends!"... Now...

Well mine comes from the Danish footballer Jon Dahl Tomasson. There is no specific reason why I chose it. I couldn't think of any better and it's easy to read or abbreviate if you feel like it.

For the past six months I've had problems with my players. They are all good guys, there's a great harmony and we seem to enjoy gaming. But the schedules that they impose really make me tear my hair out. One of the players has said that he will never play if there's a day off. This also...