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Clearly player problem. Especially with his excuses. He's basically come in under the pre-rext of fitting in to the group then proceeded to screw with your heads. My alignment made me do it is the oldest excuse in D&D for problem players. Kick the player. His character is now an NPC, have...

Wow! How can you guys stay in business or do this full time? If a book costs $40 (maybe low, maybe high) were talking only $200,000 for a "hit." That has to go to pay how many people, costs, overhead, benefits, etc. After all that what is the net profit or margin on these things?

Quite a mixture of excuses/reasons. Bottom line to me is frequencey of not being able to attend, the reason might matter but I'm really not going to look behind it. I assume people are adults who don't need to explain themselves to me. Yet if a person is frequently absent, it's a signal they...

The above post is a few weeks old, but I find I agree on every point both personally and from personal experience. Thanks for saying it so well Garnfellow.

QFT All my miniatures, lead they all be, came from 1e AD&D days. I truly wonder about the apparent contradiction in how the "good old days" are viewed. On one hand it is held out as more about role playing, on the other hand such things are abhored and it was all about killing things and...

Of Course! That is part of the fun of hombrewing to me, a stew of adventures and stories that will simmer until I'm old and gray. The adventures and deeds of previous players become the legends and tales learned by later adventurers. Sometimes these deeds had lasting impact, other times they...

I see where your coming from but isn't what you describe, one party member telling others how to react in combat called leading? If squad leaders can do it why not PCs? I'd certainly allow this as long as the orders are shouted out and the leader is not directing character's based on knowledge...

I would have to say I'm of the second camp for many of the reasons earlier in this thread. We end up playing our cahracters for 5 hours every two weeks, what a player with a family and job remembers and what a character remembers are two different things to me. The only time I might chime in...

I can see that. A reasonable gamble to take just making it through one night.

Underground dwarf druids, man am I living in the past. ;) So he may not have known the ways of these surface critters. With only 10 dogs they should have been busy gulping down hunks of flesh before a lion, etc. came by to take their prey, ;) Can you tell I've watched way too many nature...

I agree. Without a DM give me a CRPG or boardgame. To me the attraction of a pen&paper RPG is the DM. A human DM allows players to think up wacky stuff and think outside the box, unlike a CRPG or boardgame which only has rules and allows for certain actions and a DM can take into account...

It does sound fun, grim and gritty. The first encounter sounds very tough but they overcame it. Fair? It seems fair to me, but a diaglo raised a point above that makes me "wonder" Personally as a DM this would not have been an barrier to players running away if they are normal wild dogs. As...

Although I'd love to have a 10 page write-up of the setting as a player myself, I agree with the first posts that many find that to be too much information to start with. I think many players are turned off by such things because of experiences where such information makes no difference in...

Well you might be surprised how many rule "heretics" are out there even among realism junkies. ;) Except for encumberance I do pretty much the same thing, have been for almost 30 years. On encumberance, as long as you don't abuse it we don't recaculate each time gold is added to your pack...

I've been using the same campaign setting that was solidified about 1982-83 with a world map and such. I've certainly changed many things over the years. Continuity and logic is always followed with the relization that humans can somtimes act very illogically. Over the years it has been more...

The Fantasy Trip. It seemed to be catching on really well in the US before the company owner dropped out from society. Too bad Steve Jackson couldn't get the rights back in the day.

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Eltern, good ideas. Complex? No, not any more than D&D as is. You are just talking about modifiers to rolls to reflect these aspects and they can all be put in one abbreviated line for a weapon. One D&D complexity you do remove is the whole need for "touch AC." Your ideas on "non-weapons" I...

I use a spell-point system inspired by TFT. Spells cost a certain number of points to cast and spell points can be used to increase their power (e.g., duration, damage, etc.). A skill check is required to cast the spell succesfully. Failure results in damage to caster proportional to the...

I tend to read one to three books at a time. Not much fantasy these days but did reread REH Conan works recently and reread LotR before for the movies. Mostly non-fiction science (theoretical physics mostly), history, political-social stuff, and archeology. Now and again I read some sci-fi...