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This game sounds like an unmitigated disaster. Sounds like you should take the pulse of the other players and go from there. My first instinct in this situation would be to just politely and quietly quit the game but it may be that the consensus is broad enough in the group that you could...

This is an excellent point and is at the core of my objection to both the term and the practice. Most RPGs tilt the balance of power heavily towards the DM already. The idea of a DMPC is an unnecessary further infringement on the power of the players in your standard RPG dynamic. It robs the...

I don't really understand what this phrase means but a few concerns arise immediately: (a) I don't know what you mean by "colonial" here. If you are thinking in terms of colony as a political relationship, such relationships are not characteristic of the medieval period. There is a Greek model...

It seems like you are grouping a bunch of things that are not really like eachother (e.g. deep immersion and academic debate) simply because they are not part of normal D&D play. In my view, D&D is a poor choice of system for doing most of the unconventional things you describe. Certainly I...

My current setting is quasi-medieval so it's full of Christian holidays; although usually the PCs are in so much trouble, they end up having to work on the lord's day.

Funny you should mention this project. I too am in the process of designing a level-less medieval OGL system. I'm very much of the opinion that the Early Medieval period is a much better time to locate a campaign than the usual inclination towards High Medieval and Late Medieval. Reasons to go...

Hi. I'm still getting the hang of the review posting process but I think I need to request that you add the following Mongoose products so I can review them: 1. Glorantha: the Second Age 2. Runequest Companion 3. Runequest Monsters

Every single time I find a direct parallel between medieval European thought and D&D, I ask Gary about it on one of our Q & A threads. Every time, he states that no research was done and it is sheer coincidence. There are two original lives of St. Cuthbert, both of which are an easy read. One...

Congratulations Ambrus. I haven't cracked 50 episodes since 1990. Well done! It has been a pleasure to offer input on various hurdles and milestones in your campaign. I look forward to news of the next one.

Some good points are raised here but they are part of a larger PR campaign funded by the gambling industry which has picked up on the psych/math skills argument in the past two years and is running with it. The fact is that D&D is superior to poker because it doesn't produce addicts and...

I prefer campaigns with a maximum of 3 races. One is often ideal

If you want limb loss, switch to Runequest. See my review.

Thanks Jeff. While removing the ageist tone of my message (to which I sure as hell would have objected in 1987), you managed to preserve its basically angry and insulting tone. Well done. Wish I could bake you cookies. :)

Felon, You are preaching to the choir. I hate to sound ageist but, in my experience, the only people with whom this ever happens are people born since 1980. Apparently, suddenly ceasing to communicate with someone is normal etiquette. Personally, I find it cowardly and disrespectful -- and I'm...

I haven't read the books but apparently these were originally D&D campaigns: http://www.danielheathjustice.com/ In my view, an RP campaign can be a great starting point for writing a novel.

Well, given that the same rules ban discussions of religion, is it your contention, then, that any thread that discusses Deities and Demigods should be shut down and bans handed out accordingly?

As I keep stating, what is relevant is how Tolkien wrote about races that exist in the real world. I'm done here. I've spelled-out exactly what Tolkien wrote about non-white people in his books. If you guys want to continue your mental acrobatics in a desperate attempt to rebrand the text I...

You may well be right. But this does not stop the text of the book being what it is: racist. I love these books and I greatly admire JRR Tolkien but this love and admiration does not blind me to the areas where I feel the books or their author fail. Do I think Tolkien had some sort of racist...

Okay. Time #4: Nobody is stating that all the bad guys are non-white. What I am stating is that 100% of the non-whites are bad guys. Fine. Here goes. Now, while I'm at it... Satisfied?

Nice strawman there John! What I am doing is making a very specific argument about how Tolkien writes about non-white people. So, anyone who is paid to write something can’t be trusted? I’ll just leave this argument aside for now. Well, in that case, I’m safe. I’m basing my conclusions solely on...