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I agree with everything save that the content-now styles preclude force. A GM can still use force techniques by altering which outcomes deserve 'hard' or 'soft' results (for those unfamiliar 'hard' means with mechanical consequence; 'soft' means with foreshadowing/scene alteration without...

I like premise constraint more than force in the context of constraints previously agreed at the table. I ran a D&D campaign until high level with the premise "all play will occur in this one city" once to show that it can be done decently well. If a player decides to violate the original...

The player is most expendible. Players are easy to acquire. The pool of potentials is much deeper.

Important enough I seek them out to spend time with their works. Does time continue to tick if something doesn't happen? Yes. Does that make my choice of what to do with my time less valuable? No. It makes it more valuable. Opportunity cost is a thing. If I seek out a game to play in and...

The GM is still the primary pilot and navigator. Scene framing and consequence assignment are massive powers. You're running an 1930's film noir but want to include Flash Gordon? The GM can get there trivially.

I could have voted for that in the first 3 years of gaming; that's how long it took for anyone in my circles to try to run a game I could play in. Thankfully, the next 37 years did afford some chance to play. Thinking about it now, though, I haven't been a player in the last 6 years either. Sigh.

Spacemaster does too.

I noticed even found magic items became somewhat meh under 3.X. I remember when the group managed to recover a Mirror of Mental Prowess and immediately set about trying to find someone who wanted it because they wanted the cash to fill out their preferred magic items.

Name any amount you like. I'll take that bet. When I was last burnt out (a couple of year stretch) no one GMed at all. We played board games, chatted, etc.

Other Suns

Yeah, I was lucky enough to start running before my brain fully developed and I was still (somewhat) fearless. I probably wouldn't have tried if I waited until late teens or later to start running. I'm too averse to attention. By the time that trait fully developed, DMing/GMing was just...

I never found it too hard either. I have talked with an awful lot of prospective DM/GMs over the decades. Most do find it hard enough to not warrant the time. Regardless of high-prep games like D&D, Runequest, or Call of Cthulhu, or lower prep games like FATE and Dungeonworld, the amount and...

Even with low-prep games (unlike D&D) and DMing styles designed to be low-prep ()Lazy DM tips), running a game requires more administration, more attention, heck even more speaking. It requires the assumption of more viewpoints more quickly and the ability to jump between stances nearly...

Why lie to people like that? I've DMed for 40 years. I played intermittently throughout the same timeframe. Playing is tremendously easier. Can more people do it? Sure! Do they want to? Heck, no! Why not? Because it is hard. There is the typical learning curve for doing a new activity...

Up to 100,000 years, from end-to-end; 50,000 years if is started near the centre. And I haven't done the math lately, by I don't think a GBR would be deadly after 10K LY distance.

Couldn't he just go to mist form after falling a couple of hundred feet?

It's an assumption that's crept in over the decades. TOS had a stronger implication that humans reached space by themselves and had a bit of a rocky start (war with the Romulans). The humans were able to cobble together the Federation from the individual worlds that they found had...

Nor am I! It caught me a bit off guard is all. I'm trying to imagine a bronze 2-handed sword being used for a 3rd strike. Either we glossed over the whole "it was made of bronze" or I let that detail go in the last 30+ years. I remember rune metal (vaguely).

And the players learned to use pummeling (even the fighters) until other options became better. A High Str low Dex fighter type wants to use a weapon~5th level or so. Orcs and bandits certainly used the technique too! Zombies not so much being mindless and all.

I'd have to double check my math, but from memory a Str 10 Dex 10 1st level M-U hits better and does more expected damage punching than with a dagger against pretty much any AC opponent. I didn't ignore the pummeling table and that probably skewed things.