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I was always a big fan of having my D&D players borrow a rule or two from the Burning Wheel school of thought. Most commonly by having them to add a "quality" and "flaw" to their character. Basically one thing that everyone who likes the character would agree on as a positive trait, and one...

For me it depends not only on the group, but also the game and the character. I'm more likely to play around in first person if other people in the group are, and also if something clicks in me with the character. I'm also more likely to slip into first person the more familiar I am with the...

Layers, layers, layers, layers, wash.

Shelves and shelves and shelves and shelves, and a couple of piles on the floor, and another shelf full of stuff I never plan on playing again (but can't bring myself to get rid of) upstairs in a closet. This last year I finally hit the breaking point in the new game room (hence the piles)...

When I was running D&D, the big time saver for me was in coming up with tools and procedures that made my book prep work easier so that I could spend more being an artiste, making maps and props and toys, and making everything look pretty. Lots of time writing excel macros that tore apart the...

Year long+ campaigns? I think only AD&D, 3.5, and maybe 4th Ed. I might have taken part in a GURPS campaign for longer than a year, but regardless, it ran for about 4 years before I showed up, and I'm sure it continued on in my absence. I think that even during my RPG glory days, a...

My brain continuously merges 1999 to about 2010 into some nebulous "the 90s" time period. I don't even do any drugs to blame that on.

I played AD&D all through the 80s and early 90s, played in different games (mostly AD&D, Rifts, and WOD) every night of the week all through college, and ran a long 3.5 campaign through the 90s and early 00s. When 4th ed came out we jumped in with both feet, and I ran a 4th ed campaign for...

An old post of mine with regards to the excel sheet I used as my DM screen. http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?335703-DM-Tools&p=6111250&viewfull=1#post6111250 I'm not running D&D anymore, but the only real addition I remember making to that sheet was an "Inspiration Button" that...

Physical RPG books: 227, about 40 different systems Board Games: 583 RPG systems that exist in the No Man's Land between the two: ~20

A big ol' double helping of this. This is why I really love Blades. When I run a D&D campaign, I feel like I'm doing prep work non stop between sessions. When I'm running Blades, I feel like I spend all of that time I'd otherwise be doing prep, wondering what's going to happen next.

I ran a short lived Deep Space 9 inspired "you're all different types of Mimic stuck in a dungeon" game.

I once played three whole sessions of a mundane, magicless, bronze age Rolemaster campaign. We were all Sumerian farmers and after the second session some invading force rode through our town and practically slaughtered us and everyone we knew. I kept on expecting it to take some kind of...

Do you have a Cliff's Notes version of the events or what some of the cards were?

What about "Eyes Wide Shut"?

I co-ran a one shot that was either 12 or 14 people. But it was two different tables in two different rooms that, if memory serves, had at most 7 or 8 at a table at a time. I played in a particularly gonzo campaign around that same time that regularly had at least a dozen active players, but...

I'd forgo a lot of what typically makes for an even abbreviated D&D adventure and go much heavier on the inspiration and way lighter on the stats and numbers. Situation: For the last few months, the city of Vale has had a growing problem. A handful of annoying misplaced items became a handful...

Although I like the idea behind Keyforge, the implementation to me feels a little too gimmicky. Also, if you didn't like Magic because it felt like a money sink, don't let Keyforge fool you. It's basically Magic except that instead of having a limited set of cards with different known...

The game has changed a lot, but the release format is set up so that the overall power level and environment isn't just constantly creeping up. I'm no longer playing competitively (or even outside of my house) but I'm pretty sure that the current setup is that every block of three sets (what...

Yeah, I was going to suggest either a single draft and then everyone dukes it out with that closed set of cards, a continuous draft where everyone just throws their cards back into the mix for a new round of drafting whenever the games start feeling stale, or just making a single table deck that...