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Right. Open and honest communication is always the place to start. Assuming that the player does not initially realize that its behavior is disruptive, first explain which behaviors are disruptive, and in what way. As always, it is best to address the problematic behavior, rather than the...

I do, in fact, play very shallow games. So... In what ways are the fighters weak?

I prefer to host, but not to run. I don't always get what I want. When I host, I make sure that the refrigerator is stocked with drinks that the other players and myself like (whether that is tea or carbonated beverages or booze of various sorts). I also do a cheap and easy foodstuff of some...

To me, it seems like you've said to your players, "Don't worry about encumbrance. I won't enforce it." But that you do want them to worry about it, and you do want to enforce it. The problem seems to be that you are maybe not sure what you want, and that you've not appropriately communicated...

Player characters also have an uncanny ability to recognize other player characters.

Someone should tell those dudes on the cover not to hide behind rocks with eldritch symbols on them. That is definitely not going to work out.

Absolutely. The bartender droid I would be even more likely to use a protocol droid as a base, to represent the tendency for people to unload their problems onto a bartender, and maybe have it also dispense advice stored in its, 'proverb matrix' or whatever.

For a high quality 'chef' type droid, I'd make it a 3rd degree (protocol) droid, with Knowledge (galactic lore), using its galactic lore skill as representative of knowledge of a vast number of recipes and food-related cultural trivia (like what kind of food to serve at a Shindalian funereal /...

So... when I create a character, my typical policy regarding skills is simply to put max ranks into any skill that I put ranks into at all. So, for example, playing a human rogue with 10 Intelligence, I have nine skills, each with max ranks. Only when playing a character whose Intelligence...

In a couple of the most memorable Star Wars games that I've run or played in, the characters interacted directly with the canon's main characters and storyline all the time. One of the most important principles for these games was that canon diverges where the player characters touch it. Another...

That is called, "buying on credit."

Most of the stuff that I've ported into tabletop from video games has been mechanical in nature Mana Potions Wizards, sorcerers, and psychics can replenish spell slots / power points mid-adventure with these, which are fairly common, along with very common healing potions keeps the PCs in...

Here is an article about some deadly poisons, most of which would be available to pre-industrial peoples. For me, I think that the homogenizing of poisons in Type III D&D into (mostly) only affecting ability scores and only affecting creatures twice (once on the initial exposure and once again...

That might be true in the really real world, where all of the slaves are also human beings. But in the fiction of the star wars universe, other types of 'beings' may be slaves. A great deal depends on how personhood is defined within the fiction, and I don't think that we have a good answer for...

There are plenty of games where that sort of thing - bleeding out from your wounds, having a limb crippled, experiencing shock due to trauma, and so on - can happen. D&D is not very good at that sort of thing, with the hit point loss being explicitly NOT representative a physical wound. Maybe...

Mutants & Masterminds is a great game. It does, however, go out of its way to dump the class and level structure common to d20 games.

I think of bulletproof people in the same way as I think of myself being, 'punch proof'. Getting punched in the face is (probably) not going to kill me, but I'm for sure going to try to prevent it happening.

In Type III D&D, the point-buy values are 8 for 0 points, 9 for 1 point, 10 for 2 points, 11 for 3 points, 12 for 4 points, 13 for 5 points, 14 for 6 points, 15 for 8 points, 16 for 10 points, 17 for 13 points, and 18 for 16 points. i.e. each ability score costs a number of points equal to the...

It would be handy if that text was in the description of the pearl of power, rather than, you know, elsewhere. If you think it is broken, you should work with the other players (of which the DM is one) to fix it.

Among my small (40-ish) network of gaming friends, about 30-ish of them are running or have run games. So, yes. To find a GM, all I usually have to do is swing a cat until I hit one.