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I don't know what you're talking about but I'm only referring to the humans in the books.

What is politically correct is saying that these books should not be read or appreciated because of their racism or sexism. Noticing what the books have to say about questions of race or sex is just being analytical and honest about the books. I love these books, in spite of the fact that they...

To quote the Big Lebowski, What is disingenuous and ludicrous about Moorcock's position is not the truth of this statement which is basicaly undeniable (except that there is a huge oversimplification of the consciousness of a class) but the idea that one cannot or should not appreciate...

Well, this needs to be understood in the context of the fact that armies, before the modern period, were self-equipped. Levied troops had to provide their own gear quite often but it was, nevertheless, the equipment of the army. Armies, even small freelance ones, don't throw away their weapons...

Doug, never before have you and I been so completely on the same page.

I don't disallow it. I don't need to. It's been pretty much an unspoken social contract in every game I have run that this is not something explored in games. Frankly, as a GM, I have less than no desire to roleplay NPCs who are in love with my PCs. And as a PC, I can't think of a player with...

I don't think medievals had a general category for magic items because they wouldn't have conceptualized the category the same way we do. Because magic was an extension of natural law rather than a breach therein, many things have become magical only in hindsight. About the biggest category I...

It sounds like your players might be receptive to reminders that are a little more targeted. Why don't you slip them a note during the game when you can see the other players getting impatient?

I find that 2-year campaigns are as long as I want to run. I had essentially the same gaming group from 1997 to 2004; I guess we could have run the same campaign the whole time but I think the way I construct worlds limits this. If I constructed a more traditional D&D world, I could see myself...

I too purchased the red box in 1981. It was prescribed for me by a child psychiatrist when I was 9. Most useful medical prescription I've ever received.

This is kind of like asking a writer how much time they spend writing. Much of my prep time was front-loaded onto the process of creating the campaign. Then there's the time I spend thinking about the game and not writing my thoughts down but when I process most of my ideas. As for time spent...

Yep. Pulled right out of my ass. :) Thanks. I do impressions too.

Healing is a task that does not get a lot of narrative fanfare. You basically give up chances to kill monsters and cast cool spells and take on a narratively subordinate role of keeping your party alive. As a result, I think the major divine casters need to be overpowered relative to other...

I haven't used the Githzerai much in my games and have never had my players encounter their leadership structure but this is how I've assumed it works: The Githzerai, as a chaotic yet monastic society function like an ascetic version of the Presbyterian Church. Each monastery functions as an...

How do you know the pharoah is not a god? Being human doesn't naturally disqualify a person from also being a god. There are plenty of living gods and hypostatic divinities in Near Eastern tradition. You might want to reconsider your character's certainty.

I've been picking up on this a bit too. Normally when people want to alter their play style, they do it to harmonize their character with the others; in wayne's case, it seems like you are trying to increase the disparity between how you play and how the rest of the group does.

I write up a setting. Then I see what races and classes exist in it. I then allow the players to choose amongst those.

Thanks for this barak. We have much in common. All I will add is that this process may sometimes cause you to junk something you thought was just part of the framework but doesn't fit anymore now that your character has taken on more definition. The advantage of not stating this in writing or...

Intellectual capacity is not contained exclusively in the INT score. What we think of as intelligence is contained to greater or lesser degrees in INT, DEX, WIS and CHA. The question you are really grappling with here is: How does my character think? I try to answer this question by looking at...

Well, let's clarify what we are disagreeing about before we misconstrue the nature of our disagreement. Why? There are a number of things that distinguish an RPG session from a play: (a) the audience and the players are the same group; there are no passive spectators; (b) the dialogue and events...