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I don't think that player needs any help. Also, SnowleopardVK, if this was one of my players I think I'd have hit them until they were smarter or died of the cranial injuries. But I mostly play with friends that I happen to know are clever folks, so I might assume they were messing with me...

I once ran a game where firearms were available, but didn't use fire. They operated by a magical ritual that created a silvery powder called dry water, which expanded to hundreds of times it's volume worth of water instantly when you added a drop of water to it. I thought it was hilarious...

I've seen the exact opposite happen. During the epic battle with a dragon throughout it's lair, the party had seen the remains of past heroes who had come to battle the dragon and failed. When the party finally defeated the dragon, the nearest fallen hero turned out to be the party wizard's...

I was recently trying to describe a meme to a friend and gave up and looked it up on the internet. The page I found it on was a "best of" collection of the Good Guy Greg memes. I showed him the particular meme I had in mind, and then he wanted to see the rest of the list. After about two pages...

Yep. Dread is magnificent for zombie survival games, and the way to make it flow is exactly as you describe. Let them layout their zombie survival tactics, and let the zombies wear them down, until they have to do something spectacular to escape at the climax. I love Dread. I'm thinking of...

Their weapons would most likely be lumps of rust, but here's a good overview of what they would most likely have been carrying back in the day. List of weapons in the American Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Their uniforms don't need to be described beyond the tattered, moldy...

I hadn't thought of this system until a few days ago, when someone mentioned it here on enworld, but The End is a great setting. It's after the biblical judgement, and the players are left on a world that is a very harsh place without deific protection for mankind. No hope of things getting...

Ha, I found this game's name. It was "The End," and was set after the biblical rapture. It was a bleak setting and a brutal system. I once had a character get bitten by a rattlesnake and the other players were deciding how to split my gear before they even rolled to try to save me, because...

Hit up your local college and find the art department. I can tell you from experience that art students need money and supplies to make art and generally have no way of getting it. They may willing to produce you a whole notebook full of art for surprisingly little in return, because if they're...

I helped my cousin and her husband in a ESL class they were teaching by being a witness in a murder mystery. No system, just conversing with witnesses and the forensic team to get information, then the class had to ID the guilty party based on what they had discussed. Very cool. And that was...

I seem to recall that a Mage Knight figure matched that description. See if Daren Brakensword fits, even though I think that's a bear pelt. *Failure deleted* oops, that doesn't work, try this. http://www.nobleknight.com/ProductDetailSearch.asp_Q_ProductID_E_2147402655_A_InventoryID_E_2147746072

Has anyone else come across the FPS mentality? I actually had another player in a game tell me that I stole his kill. It happened on several occasions when groups of bad guys would get beaten, but as a poor combatant, this particular player would still be trading blows with "his" goblin or...

How about a reverse scenario? Generic D&D world, no specifics from the DM, I show up with three pages of back story about growing up with a working class family in a grimy port city. His father was a butcher and he learned how to use knives very well. Me: My character's name is John Butcher...

A few options that I've come across or used in my games in the past: As a player, I once had a halfling (who due to world-shattering shenanigans over the course of the campaign had become half-celestial) character fall in love with, marry, and have kids with an elven sorceress. The DM, in the...

Lots of good advice flying around, on every side. My two cents: This should be resolved by the characters, but you could nudge the players. I'm of the opinion that a pally needs to always be able to be the bigger man, in every situation, so I'd work on that player first. "Your character is...

Never will I pay to play an MMORPG. A real game however, with my actual friends physically present, supporting a local business that was started to support my chosen hobby. Yeah, I think I'd pay. My FLGS (GeekTOPIA in Jonesboro, AR, USA) doesn't charge for space. When I go in for the bi-weekly...

A whole campaign. I found a picture while wandering the internet a year or so ago (which I have sadly lost track of and desperately want to find again)of a group of adventurers standing along a cliff face. They are accompanied by two or three animated scarecrows that are dressed similarly and...

I know there's at least one out there, because I listened to it before I ever ran a game of Dread. They played it like they were more concerned with their time limit than enjoying the game, but I enjoyed listening to them. Now comes the bad news... I don't remember where I listened to this...

DREAD!!!!!! It takes about 30 seconds to explain the premise and a minute or two to go over the rules. Character creation is easy for anyone to figure out because there are no numbers to juggle. Also, it is awesome like a thousand hot dogs.

You have to give them a heroic end first and then let them work towards it to earn it. I'd start each player off with this, but I'd do it before the game starts, so they don't all know that they're having the same vision: The Royal family asked for heroes and none disappointed. In the...