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Look, they wouldn't have given you the hit points and treasure allotment of every person in the Keep on the Borderlands if you weren't supposed to just go in and kill them all, would they?

It was in response to Cugel paying someone a complement. Chapter 1, "The Overworld" - The Eyes of the Overworld (1966)

I guess the upshot of these terrible examples is to warn people starting to run convention games that there is a category of gamer that we (the staff at the local convention I was at) called "griefers." These are people who derive their enjoyment only from ruining the expectations of other...

Sure. Let's check out Holy Mountain Shaker by Luka Rejec. It's statted for OSE, but is easily portable to just about any OSR game. Spoilers for that adventure.

Yes, sir! You know your fine literature!

------------------------ That joke made, I think people are (perhaps intentionally) talking past each other in that thread, and I am probably out.

You can just tell me, "@RealAlHazred, that post was garbage." I don't really pay attention to either insults or congratulations; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.

Sure, but there are a lot of module authors who then decide to prevent any but the "smartest" choice. And that's railroading. "If the PCs try talking to the NPC, the DC is 10; if, instead, they want to pick the lock to continue, the DC is 45" in a module for 1st through 4th level PCs, for...

A lot of modules, I suspect, are failed novels. The author had a specific scene in mind, with the PCs here, the villain there, this monologue and that monologue going on, and then the dramatic reversal that was telegraphed in scene 2. Like I said, I can't define a Railroad module to anyone's...

Customer: Why was it done this way? That's wrong! My Boss to my Coworker Who Did It: Please produce the email showing how you were supposed to do it. My Coworker: We never got an email. Customer: ... We didn't send an email, but we shouldn't have to! I guess it's just magically supposed to...

That only happened the one time. I did have players who were disruptive enough that I had to bring out my RPG Director badge. Some of them were just idiots, who, for example, hadn't read the AL guidelines and so created illegal characters -- one dude created a 5th level aarakocra ranger from...

I just follow the central message of Buddhism: "Every man for himself!"

I will give a bye to the actual start of a campaign. When I started my current Traveller campaign, the players started by waking up in cold sleep pods on a crashed starship. They only had whatever equipment they could scrounge and didn't even know their own names; their names and backstories...

Of course you can! How do you plan to get there? You've heard there's a Gate of Infinite Worlds, and it happens to be located in the castle that the last twelve NPCs have tried to hire your group to go to...

I don't know if I agree. "Well, I'm Altherian. I'll just go to the Altherian embassy; I'm not a Big Damn Hero, after all. I should probably get out of the way." "A rioter blocks your path, and does some fancy karate moves in a threatening manner." "Well, then I'll go to the Milandiri embassy...

I had an AL table, where one of the player characters literally one-shotted the patron as soon as he showed up. No preamble, using his best ability. I ejected him from the table (the one and only time I've ever had to do it.) When he complained, I explained, "You're probably played the module...

Gary: "Everybody in the world should be an absolute schlub except for the PCs and the occasional Evil High Priest or Antipaladin; i.e., major villains with schemes." Also Gary: "I'm going to have this random hermit in the mountains be an absolute schlub, except that he's also the most power...

Agreed. I consider there to be a difference between a Railroad and a regular road. When I take the train, I have to follow the railroad. I don't have a choice about turning off somewhere, I'm going to the destination with several specified stops along the way. But a regular "road"... it still...

First we let them put pineapple on pizza, and now they're playing D&D with Lego instead of metal miniatures like Gary intended. It was a slippery slope! "You call this D&D?"

It doesn't seem bad to you and I because it's just fictional dwarves leaving the Dwarf homeland because, say, the Elves devastated it in the War of Kin after claiming they had lived there long before and the territory belonged to them; it's all fictive positioning. But if, as the player, I'm...