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I love dungeon crawls. As much as I love playing a character with a personality and hopes and dreams that are part of a living story, it's still great fun to take that character into a deep, dank, desolate place and kill lots of disgusting creatures; then take their stuff. The best pleasures in...

The Ennies staff objected to the implication that the Ennies encourage people to vote "early and often" in one episode. The staff of the Ennies requested that FTB voluntarily withdraw their nomination. This resulted in many threats and insults being levelled at the Ennies staff and the FTB...

That's an underwear brand.

I listened to the latest episode of the Fear the Boot Podcast and although they talked about something entirely different for most of the episode, they started off by asking each other if they took the various gaming awards that go around in the game business seriously. They mentioned the...

Has anybody come across any really good RPGs that weren't originally written in English? I know that In Nomine and Kult both had their origins in French. What about others?

Exactly what the subject line says. :) What are the best game conventions to go to, other than the two that are the oldest and the most famous?

I hate psionics. I had exactly one psionic PC in a game that I ran a few years ago. The campaign was going so well before someone joined in who insisted on playing a blind man with a huge level of psionic ability; including the capacity to dominate the minds of others and play them like puppets...

I had so much fun reading responses to my last thread about RPG stupidity that I thought I would turn it around. :) What were your most brilliant moments ever experienced as either a player or as a GM in an RPG, either accomplished by yourself or witnessed first-hand? Here are mine: Player: A...

Hey! I was 12 when I bought mine!

What is the stupidest thing that you ever did as a player and as a GM? I'll share mine. Player: My character attempted to disable a vehicle. Under the pretext of running a "security check," he looked it over in minute detail, before using a sleight of hand maneuver to slash a tire. One of the...

Are there people from whom you keep your gaming activities a secret? If so, why? This is a hobby that demands intense dedication and time in order for one to participate in it and I am interested in knowing how and why people hide this aspect of their lives from people around them. Accordingly...

Neither of which I did in my OP. In fact, I didn't mention any game systems at all. If you happen to feel that way about those games though, be my guest... It lacked 4th Ed. and Pathfinder references too.

The proliferation of munchkincentric, rules-laden RPGs and the indie crowd's obsession with "rules, rules, systems, nothing but rules and systems" has distracted a lot of us from something obvious: We are supposed to be playing characters and our campaigns are supposed to have plots.* What...

I suspect that one need not go very far into a forum like this one to find someone who has stopped gaming, or someone who knows someone who has stopped gaming. What about people who have stopped gaming for a long while, but suddenly got back into it? Has something like this ever happened to...

The summer convention season will be upon us very soon. Aside from all the big ones like Gen Con, Origins, and so on, there will be many local cons too. I've been to a few of them and they range from slap-dash affairs that take place in one room to cool operations that run like well-oiled...

I agree with most of your post but on this specific point, I say, it can be totally hiliarious if done right. My games can best be described as "ultra-violent sit-coms" so maybe I see more utility in that than some people. But finding out that a PC has a whole load of half-siblings can introduce...

I used to think that 3.5, GURPS, and WoD players could be obsessive-compulsive in how they generate characters, until I looked at this: http://www.epiguide.com/ep101/writing/charchart.pdf This is something that I found on a web site for prospective fiction writers, a form to fill out to create...

I was re-reading GURPS Martial Arts for GURPS 4th Edition recently and I read their rules for damage to hands; not only can a character take crippling damage from punching an opponent who wears solid armour or from being parried by a weapon-wielder, but even punching somebody in the head could...

Since my last thread, the one about whether or not railroading can be a good thing, generated so much discussion, I figured that I might as well bring up another pet peeve that many gamers have: The rules lawyer. Somebody who forces the GM to look up everything before making a ruling (or who...

I was listening to a podcast today and I heard one of the guest hosts utter something that nigh made my blood boil: '"Railroading" is just a pejorative term for "a game in which the group actually accomplishes something!"' He went on to say "at least they're on the train" and not "stuck in the...