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Movies and video games? Heck - compare them to board games! Arkham Horror will set you back $60. Something like Descent goes for $100. Even simpler games usually go for $30 minimum. And you can go here IPR for all your lighter gaming needs. Plenty of games under the 200 page mark. Check...

If a group of RPGs just wanted tactics, why are they playing RPGs instead of Warhammer Fantasy Battles or something? I believe its because even if its the tactical games part that they primarily enjoy, the other aspects are fun too. Imagining the events as a story and playing out their...

This is par for the course for me :). Right now I'm running Hunter and Call of Cthulhu. In each game, its typical to have 3-1/2 hours of investigation and roleplay, with maybe 1/2 hour of combat at the climax. A single fight is more exciting if the entire session builds up to it - what has...

I reject the dichotomy of sandbox vs storytelling. I consider what I do to be 'story-creating'. Essentially, I view any plot or events that I introduce as vehicles for players to explore their characters. To prove themselves true to what they aim or reveal themselves to be less than that. I...

My woman is a gamer herself, but is still very supportive. She wouldn't hesitate to let me, heck would encourage me, to join a game that I wanted to play that she didn't. Considered starting L5R as she has no interest in samurai, but I really don't have time. We've also discussed it that when...

Also, the John Woo Principle should be in effect. Every attack destroys something. If it misses it doesn't destroy the target. But arrows should be sticking into wooden beams, ax-blows should be cutting pieces off statues, and missed spells should be starting small fires and knocking over dishes.

If you want the players to feel their characters are cool, you've got to let them do Their Thing. That is, whatever that character is made to do. Fighting lots of minions? Well, if they took powers to let them deal with multiple opponents that might do it. If they were a scholar interested...

For me, I certainly recognize that there are going to be hidden patterns, but I don't much want to have to guess at what they are, nor make my players do so. I'll don't hide rules, though my players don't generally go seeking out rules, so its kind of a wash. The thread brings up the...

This. Edition war threads tend to have about half a page of interesting discussion, then start to resemble this "Your favorite game sucks" "No, YOUR favorite game sucks!" "I think you'll find its your game that is horrible" "Only a cretin would think that your game was fit for anything but...

It doesn't matter. I'm a geek, so I love anything that is meant to appeal to 15 year old boys. Pirates, swordfights, dragons, ninjas, and zombies - all awesome.

Agree completely. I think 4e's a neat game, but I'm glad there are people in the hobby, and options from 4e, to pathfinder, White Wolf's stuff, the indie games, the Warhammer lines, M&M, Savage worlds - there's something out there for everyone! I've had great success building a network of...

I'm the opposite - I'll play 3e if the game has a good concept, but there's no way I'm running that again. I wouldn't run it if you paid me. 4e just seems like so much less work to run.

That's rough being in a smaller community. I've had astounding success with Meetup.com. Yes, it costs money, but if you decide to drop the cash to go for it ($12 a month) it has a lot of potential. First of all, you can see if there's a wait list for your city. There might be people already...

Pretty much any game that's not D&D/d20. Anyway, combat encounters and roleplay encounters are really the same kind of beast. Conflict. Many games have a lot of combat and rules for combat because its pretty easy to set up a conflict with combat as the way to resolve it. Just add some bad...

Our group uses one for Hunter: The Vigil. The game is heavily inspired by Supernatural, which features 'Dad's Journal' as a research tool for various monsters. The group shares a journal, with players writing in it during the session. This makes it a rather haphazard and chaotic book, as a...

I'll often steal ideas and concepts from one game and put them into another. I stole the player's turn/GM's turn from Mouseguard and put it into my Buffy game. During the day at high school it was the players' turn. They all introduces scenes, developed stuff with NPCs, or went fishing for...

There's even support in the game that you are not playing a normal mouse. There's even a stat to support this, Mouse Nature, which reflects how mouse-like you are. If your Mouse Nature gets too low, then the other mice stop interacting with you. You're just too weird. You don't put anything...

I want to base a character off Logan Echolls from Veronica Mars. A rich, arrogant, witty guy with vulnerablity underneath a cynical surface, his father is worhsipped by the masses but is in truth a violent jerk. Adapt this to whatever we're playing - if its supers, then I'm Captain Hero's son...

Its always been that weird thing I play, and never really got any grief over it. I started playing in the 80s when the satanic scare was going on, but Mom's an atheist and stepdad was lapsed Catholic, so they didn't really get an earful about it from anyone. My Grandma was in an Apostolic...

Any time I've gone with the idea of 'well if I get a chance I'll throw together a game of X' it never happens. People schedule tight - schedule a game and look for players on ENWorld. Most years I spend far more time gaming in the hotel than I do participating in any kind of official event.