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Great post Stalker0! Well, I think I'm fairly sympathetic to your thoughts--but I do have a fairly different practical experience. In your example of 5th level fighter daily exploits, you surmise the superiority of Rain of Steel leads to the overwhelming choice of the power by players. I...

The real trick to flying is learning to miss the ground.

Indomitability

I have a couple of strange ones from some past world-building. Governance of a tribal nation (very loose confederacy) was granted by killing the largest animal and displaying it to the elders. The leader of a lizardman nation (aztecish theocracy) was decided by the lone survivor of a group of...

A player should always have control over his character. Though, said player should realize there are consequences to his actions: both in game and out. That being said, if a player told me I couldn't tell him what his character knows...I would be very tempted to run the next few minutes of...

You would have really put the grammar screws to me if I had written what I wanted to write: dais(ed) throne. I feel my nominalization has, perhaps, reached its peak...and I couldn't figure out how to spell it. :)

Wow! These are great guys! I'm kinda glad I started with a rather boring dilema first...lots of these are really funny. I am a bit surprised that it took twelve posts before someone sat on the throne(thrown) or spilt any blood--and kudos to Brown Jenkin for killin' both with one stone.

Wait. Your worried that your players might know enough about the published modules that they would purposely follow a path out of politness--for you! Wow. Stop worrying and go take your group out for pizza.

See, this made me laugh...and I'm not sure why. How about a backstory?

Alright! We need a little bit of excitement, creativity, and even humor on this forum! Over the next couple of weeks/months (should there remain a modicum of interest) I will be introducing scenes that could be pulled from any adventure: be it fantasy, modern, future, horror, ect… and I would...

How long? About 10 years through various incarnations. Ages, Genders, and Professions? Two late 20s, the rest Mid 30s early 40s 4 Male 2 Female Student Professor Retail regional manager Waiter Engineer Teacher Edition? Not currently playing anything. Last played 3.5 Will be starting...

I've never understood the problem. This just gives me more of a timeline to choose from. I've never felt compelled to advance one of my games because of the choices of a publisher...but I have choosen to start my games in a different era. A good example, for me, is that I never used any of...

I once started a campaign by thrusting some of my DM duties upon the players. I had them create 0 lvl characters belonging to a small village in a world I created, (well, to be fair, several people created it) each character a single xp point from entering the class of their choice. I then...

I've used this idea for years. I much prefer the 'human' feel of an organization...and it is sooo much easier to justify coruption in a good aligned church. I've usually kept the source of power divine: just have the followers make different assumptions about where the power has come from...

Yeppers! No time, coupled with confilcting schedules...I haven't gamed since a one off in January with some old college buddies while on a business trip. I've had the 4E core books since the day they were released--and I haven't played a single encounter. So, yeah...this is beginning to feel...

Yes. But one must consider the comedic timing. And I felt more jarred by the poor dialectics of his snowballing rather than his parallelisms. The funniest I remember seeing on a chalkboard was: Water is wet. Fish live in water. Fnord.

It confuses me how you seem to chronicle the respect for others as a branch from the respect of rules. Aren’t rules an implication of humanities lack of respect for others? I fail to see how a further regimentation of game-play could improve what is inherently social circumstance. I worry...

Water is wet. Fish live in water. Therefore fish are water.

The movie was astounding. I like silent films...and I was blown away by the pure artisty of the choreography, imagery, and lack of dialogue.

I had a whole campaign revolve around Stairway to Heaven once. In fact, the last section of the song was used as a map to the last lair of the adventure...that they found in single lines and had to arange in proper order. I was a bit surprised by the lenth of time it took them to realize that...