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There isn't anything inherent in the game to foster this. But the game is, nevertheless, characterized by a lack of tools for managing it relative to games where the designers anticipate intraparty conflict and provide GMs with tools to make it work better. It's like people who successfully...

Sure: 1. Neighbourhood battle: The PCs must rally the locals and fight off the local syndicate thugs for control of their neighbourhood. 2. Rescue/protect the princess: Recapture or guard the heiress the villain is planning to marry quickly. Maybe the PCs could even plan an ambush in the evil...

Sounds like the smuggling isn't of illicit stuff, then, unless arms are banned. If the smuggling isn't of banned items, it must mean that much of the city's livelihood comes from taxes on the transit trade, if the taxes are high enough to make the smuggling trade profitable. It that's the case...

Wow! It would really suck to be kicked out of a dinner-dance at 9pm. I feel way better about how the ENnies are being treated by the scheduling people now.

So, you have a merchant cartel and a criminal syndicate pulling off the coup. It sounds like these guys are low-born, if they have nothing to do with the council, despite their considerable influence. This means that they either (a) want to become a new aristocracy or (b) they oppose...

I am distrustful of big, imprecise terms for things we don't like. I find that such terms are often used like an area rug in a Tom & Jerry cartoon: we take all the contradictions in our own way of thinking and sweep them under the big term, like a bunch of dust under a rug. This allows our views...

No idea but I'd be happy to talk it through with you here on ENW. Who is attempting the coup?

Glorantha, the original Runequest setting, is flat. Most worlds I run are flat. Flat Earth theories are pretty rare in our own historical past. But if you want to check out real world flat earth ideas, I recommend looking at Chinese mythology and a fabulous book written in the 6th century called...

Indeed; this strikes me as the correct "in character" response. When I meet prickly misanthropes in real life, that's my usual reaction.

It is viable as an RPG. Nobody in this thread has commented on whether PCs should like one another. All our commentary has been about PCs working together, just as you propose. Well, there are ways of playing a jerk character that impinge on others' fun and there are ways that do not. Hopefully...

EDIT: Now that I've read the whole thread, I'll just recommend that it's time to change personnel. There's no way around it. You have a social problem here not a gaming problem. And it requires a social solution, in the form of changing the composition of your gaming group.

75% of what is called "metagaming" is actually just gaming.

I'm generally interested in running games where the party works together as a co-operative unit. But even when they don't, I'm not a fan of note-passing. In my view, the set of knowledge a player has and the set the character has are sufficiently disparate that I just expect my players to keep a...

That's an interesting read of the data but then it sounds like this is what you were predisposed to conclude.

Threads like this make me fear that EN World is becoming a parody of itself.

If I'm doing character creation for a D20 game, my concern is balance not edge. No. The rules I would want would be rules that would give equal power to characters of low birth not rules that would make a particular character choice inherently better.

Yes. It does, in both of the games in which I play and in the two that I run. When I am a player and not the GM, I do not create my character background without consulting every step of the way with my GM. I view my character background as a co-creation of myself and the GM, not something I have...

Depends on the style of game and who I'm playing with. Also, I don't GM campy games well but I love playing in them. Depends on the strengths and mood of the group. I've been known to love it both ways.

I keep forgetting that despite our opposing views of magic and physics in gaming mass our total agreement on how to have a grown-up social contract for one's D&D group. One of the most common social deficits in gamers is their erroneous belief that the "adult" way to deal with things is to tell...

The set of products we judges are sent is a little different than the standard set you find in your average gaming store. I'm not sure that's a flaw in the system but I agree that it creates some problems. Ironically, products become known after an ENnies nomination or win. Also the ENnies...