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    DMs are too easy on their players

    [monster truck match announcer voice] SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!! DEATHMATCH DEATHMATCH DEATHMATCH! WALDORF VS. EDENA! THE BIGGEST FIGHT EVAR!?!?!?!? KIDS TICKETS STILL JUST $5 $5 $5!!! SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!! [/monster truck match announcer voice]
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    Two Truths and a Lie

    Fact 1: I have GMed for a bisexual Malaysian witch doctor private detective. Fact 2: I have played D&D with a bisexual heroin-addicted exotic dancer. Fact 3: I watched an NPC throw boiling hot salted coffee into another NPCs face. The Lie:
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    How did RPGs grab you?

    I should have started RPGs in middle school. I was making up interstellar empires then...but I didn't get into it until 11th grade or so.
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    OotS 474

    Balls. How did I miss that? Olaf the Stout: Toy Story. "Marie Antoinette and her little sister."
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    Computers beat up my role player

    Sounds like the D&D version of the movie Buried Alive. Except I'd do it cheaper, grindhouse style. "He betrayed their trust... Now they're back... He killed them for the money... and now he's going to choke on it!
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    Ugh, I hate monty haulism.

    Or, my god, maybe he could communicate with the company directly through some sort of postal system. Hmmmmmm.
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    Ugh, I hate monty haulism.

    Magic swords? In Conan? Howard's stories take the view of "He's Conan, bitch, that's what matters." Equally mystified here. "It's a sword, it looks like this" is all the detail I can remember from the four or five REH stories I've read. And Conan goes through a lot of swords. Get sword, fight...
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    Stupidest things PCs/DMs have done

    The appropriate response to this situation is "Ah, :):):):). Last set of astral bodies gone. Let's come back in a few weeks when the wizard has more scrolls of Astral Spell prepped. Let's see what the Council of Eight has decided to do for their game this afternoon." ( or "I turn on my ring of...
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    Is Power Creep Real? If so, how do you fight it?

    My group has an NPC full orc Barbarian whose original player (now moved away) rolled really well for stats (55-point buy or so), but you could reduce his 12's in mental scores to 8's and still have his ridiculous 22 (base) Strength and 18 Constitution, which are the backbone of his character...
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    What should a 3rd level wizard buy with 250K+ gold?

    I am suddenly reminded of Brewster's Millions. "I wanna hire all of you guys as my bodyguards starting right now, and I'll pay you 100 gold pieces an hour!" They don't want to be horribly hunted down and killed? Or have to drag off all that loot? Duh?
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    This game is ridiculous -- same problems for years

    Ring of Sustenance, silly.
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    Expedition to Undermountain Opinions?

    My first thought is of Resident Evil 4's wandering invincible merchant guys.
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    Fixing the Assassin

    Faster than Bard?
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    Monster Manuals no more

    There's this amazing device we have now called a photocopier. You can copy pages out of books on it. :lol:
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    The problem of keeping magic items scarce...

    Funny man! Tell me another one. A more logical scenario (IMO) would be that the PCs can't just up and run off to the city to buy what they want from the local Guild of Alakazammers because they're employed. Can't just send anyone to pick up thousands of gp in property, either. They get some...
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    Expedition to Undermountain Opinions?

    Tiger don't change his stripes, apparently.
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    Why you shouldn't use 5 ft corridors

    If I was 1st level and found (as opposed to being told or shown where it is, etc.) a secret thieve's guild, I'd be shaking my head at the sloppy design. Adventures should make some sense.
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    When You Keep Killing Characters?

    What the hell. Seriously. What the hell. They're what, 4th level, is that correct? And you expect them to pay the 5,000 gp diamond cost for Raise Dead out of their 4,500gp total wealth? Well, they'll spend more time unconscious and less time dead in GURPS, at least. I shudder to think...
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    What the hell happened? RHoD (spoilers)

    I originally read this as "...and let the horses lick it to death..."
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    Stupid High Skill Checks and Saves

    Don't forget you can take 20 on Hide checks.
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