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I tend towards "why". Their intent is often more important than anything else in determining my final answer. Power-gamey intent almost universally gets a "No, and here's why." "I wanna see how the system handles X." is sometimes interesting enough to earn a yes. Roleplay fluff that isn't...

Sounds to me like the players just want to play a video game. You are probably better off without this particular batch.

I once played in a game something like that. The game started in '94, and then Sliders started the next season, so my theory that my GMs brain was bugged started. It gained credence the next year, when he started a wild west horror game, then Deadlands arrived on the scene in '96, but I...

@ Elf Witch: "As a DM I will sometimes use family and friends as bait I have even used them to betray the party." The best use of a family member I've pulled off was in a Star Wars game where one of the characters had a little sister who was a Jedi Padawan. She was turned to the darkside and...

Once had a player decide on an unusual interrogation technique in a superhero setting (He wasn't one, the players were super mercenaries). Player(to a captured enemy thug):Tell me what I want to know, and I'll rip your arm off. Me: He begins to shake and tells y...did you just say "and I'll...

Room 1. The players enter the dungeon by your preferred method, a mausoleum, a sink-hole, or by falling into an open grave and through the bottom into the room. They surprise a group of ghouls that are either returning from or about to go on a scavenging run. Room 2. The ghouls where tough, but...

Happy birthday! In answer to your question: I'm too old to get excited for birthdays. They're just another day, which I use to request a day off of work and have a lazy day. They're enjoyable, but not because I celebrate another year. I rarely even worry about my age. I say I'm old, and I do...

Many thanks for all the good advice and suggestions. the Jester: I cannot give you more xp until I spread it around some, I'm told, but have and unofficial +1 for what you said.

Everyone always focuses on Halloween at the expense of the True Greatest Holiday Ever, November 1st, when all the Halloween candy goes on sale.

I think one of the greatest losses from the end of Firefly was that they never told us what was up with the Reavers. They're obviously still highly technically competent, first they strip the safely gear from their ships and then they successfully fly them. I don't think the Reavers are what...

CoC without a doubt. The system is simple, and it does it's job very well. You can teach everyone how it works as they're making up their characters. The setting is rich, and a well run game can really get under a player's skin and leave them itching for more. If you're looking for cheap and...

Need some advice from the various ne'er-do-wells scouring the forums. In the D6 Star Wars game that I'm running, I kinda got myself into a situation. My players are a group of pirates that I've been trying to build up into a band of daring Pirate Kings! Unfortunately, they mostly just hit or...

The only thing I would have changed in any of it would be to eliminate the fireworks. The sword would have been drained and the golem empowered without any outward sign. The players would have left with all the gold, not knowing that not only had they just empowered a super enemy, they also...

Pretty much never. The worst it ever gets is an arched eyebrow and a "Really? That's what you're gonna do?" I save my anger for Black Ops.

Play whatever floats your boat. Just have a looping track going constantly along with it that is just infrasound running from 15 to 20 hertz.

About a decade ago, I had a group that regularly played a V:TM LARP. Now that we don't play anymore, I've been hankering to run a Malky 40's hard-boiled detective who's madness is that he constantly spews whatever he's thinking, noir voice-over style, about aloud without being aware of it. Now...

Depends entirely on my mood at the time. I like to think that I favor concept over bonuses more often than not, but I don't have access to actual numbers, just my hopes for myself.

orion90000, show some tact, please.

I played a neutral evil half-orc in a game that collected trophies, mostly ears and noses, dried them and wore them as a necklace. He would also cut off the thumbs of enemies that he had killed so they couldn't raise arms against him in the afterlife. He was brutal, lazy, and uncomfortable with...

Call him Tusky McTightpants. Or just grunt when you refer to him, as though his name were "Ugh."