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My players are into the roleplaying aspect and they usually create complex and evolving characters. I base my prep on their actions, planning and conclusions, so the chars have space to grow and the plots evolve organically. So there are usually some pretty serious moments in a campaign. But...

Unknown to me here in Sweden, maybe you can get it here on a street food festival or such.

Or you do major setpieces with minions, reinforcements, phases, timers, changing milieau etc etc. Ie fun bossfights. My solution was to skip D&D/obligatory resource depletion, I mostly play Savage Worlds these days.

Just started with Thomas Pynchons Gravity's Rainbow from my pile of summer reading. Dense and very good, both Eco and Stephenson are visible in the text. After that it's time for my annual readings of Foucaults Archaeology of Knowledge and The Order of Things, to see if am any smarter this year ;-)

If routine combats are boring for the players and an extra layer of burden for the GM, just get rid of routine combats. "After defeating and evading cultist guard patrols you enter...".

I had Civ, don't know what version, might have been 2,3 or 4. Never played it seriously, mostly on a crappy laptop while my house was undergoing a looong renovation. I usually played it like this: Set difficulty to easy. Do some moderate expansion to get resource bases, then live in peace with...

For things in general I'm pretty unsentimental and have no hoarding tendencies. Except for books. I can't bear getting rid of even a single paperback, and buy way more academia and fiction than I have time to read. I accepted long ago that this means that moving house seriously sucks. Nowadays...

Boomers and GenX that has kept their rpg interest alive either play 5e and are ok with it, or play other systems that fit them better. I can't really see WotC getting bang for their marketing bucks targeting older folks, when - as the OP said - the system is clearly evolving to fit young...

Handling and winging fall damage in D&D is easy imho. My beef is that in many other games a character with top physical stats may take crippling injuries jumping from sidewalk to street. In fact, I think my most common house rule across games is letting chars move vertically in a reasonable way...

I don't separate stuff into hobby or not, neither do I choose "hobbies" like I do the color of my pants. If it's fun, I can afford it and have the time, then I do it. If it's not fun, I stop doing it. Roleplaying games is something I've done on and off since my early teens. It's not like I...

I'm not comfortable starting that debate. A not unplausable outcome would be that cloth gathering dust on the floor is a larger annoyance than me getting less bed reading time from her perspective. I'm more into the felt cover + book leach idea.

Hmm, not bad. And I like your thinking - a felt/padded cover to protect the book from bedside table bump damage and dampen bump sound, with an attached leach to keep it from falling all the way to the floor.

So you suggest that I put dampening material on the floor beside the bed when she has fallen asleep, just in case I drop the book, then rise before her to remove the incriminating evidence? Since she usually wake before me, that also means I have to find a silent alarm that wake me before her...

I don't know about your partner, but my wife responds very negatively to clothes and stuff thrown beside the bed. So I still keep an eye out for the foam book cover.

I always read in bed laying on my side, so my nose is safe. But if I doze off while reading a hefty tome and drop it on the floor, I risk waking up my wife who doesn't enjoy that particular way of getting her sleep interrupted. I've searched the web for some kind of flexible book cover padding...

I wonder if my GMing style is neo-trad? I make frames for the campaign and arches, sketching potential baddies and their activities. My session to session prep is modifying those frames depending on the characters actions, maybe create a set piece, adding and further develop NPCs, and setting...

I would need to take them IRL to be able to master a FPS playstyle, but sadly Jet ain't legalized in Sweden yet.

As to VATS or not: I'm old, my arcade reflexes - not good to begin with - disappeared decades ago. That's why VATS, in 3, NV and 4, is such a godsend. It allows me and other old farts that usually play turn based stuff to play a first person combat focused game and have fun. Now, I actually...

Feck it. Just started a play through - it's been a while since last time - with the intention of going melee since I've never played that style. But I hardly entered Sanctuary before my brain started to mess with me. "Nah, let's do another stealth vats pistol build, it's so much fun, blah blah...

Yeah, 2 had me in awe too. But when Thunderdome came I was old enough to take in the scenes with the vision of what once was. And that sad-nostalgic tone put the mohawks and petrol fights in perspective. Most important, Bartertown was such a concentrate of rpg setting goodness with so many...