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I had no idea I was being dishonest. Most fiction, unless you spoil yourself, doesn't tell you what's going to happen at the end. We suspend our disbelief to allow ourselves the illusion that 80-90% of all fiction has a positive ending. I didn't mean to imply by giving examples of bad fiction...

There has to be a chance of failure, or else it's all just wanking. Whether that failure is death or not, depends on the game. I assume from your comments about difficulty reaching room temperature that you're talking about the latest edition of D&D, though. To me S&S games with no chance of...

I don't mean "try something fun and crazy" reckless, I mean "by the rules if you do this you're supposed to die, but I fudge it every time so you can get away with it until the one time I'm in a bad mood/not showing favoritism/flake out" reckless.

I think there's a fine line, and you have to be careful or you can help make the players reckless. I just think the line is even finer when it comes to my side of the screen, since I already get to decide 99% of the game details without rolling a single die. The details that the dice cover? I...

I don't understand. You had to fake a quote to address a point nobody was making?

Read again what Wolf1066 said regarding fudging in the favor of NPCs - that's what I'm quoting and talking about in the post you're responding to. I consider fudging in the favor of NPCs cheating and avoid it at all costs. YMMV Anyway, if allowing an extra roll to avoid an expected outcome...

Yeah, it was sad to lose a friend over something like a game, but he had... anger issues. He was also at a pretty low spot in his life, and involving police might have sent him off the edge. I don't know - better just to move on.

I'm not in the game. I don't have any impressions other than what I read. Was my advice about this wrong in your opinion? This is the sort of event that gives players the impressions they can't lose. I wonder what the outcome would have been if the second roll failed. With that much peer...

Players lose character sheets, or forget them. Players also have to miss games sometimes, and we may not be in a position to move their PC offstage. On the other hand, as host it is impossible for me to lose a character sheet. Okay, nothing's impossible, but my garage would have to burn down or...

Obviously the DM's call worked out well and a splendid empowering non-confrontational buddy moment was had by all, but... always allowing PCs to win, even when their dice say the opposite, leads to them doing insane impossible stuff all the time. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest they...

To be fair, DMs can do a lot of these as well, and I'm sure there are worse things, but I've seen these: Player picks a PC name that pulls everyone out of the game every time it comes up. Player never, ever pays attention to anything but combat rolls. Player decides to suicide a character and...

Sounds fun. Did you end up running it as a one-off, or are you going on from here?

If you buy into the premise that Hideous Blow provokes an AoO, then you're right. I'm in the "as if" crowd though.

I don't see any reason to switch invis/darkness, since the evocations work the same as the spells, but adding an eldritch blast (maybe with Hideous Blow?) would make for an interesting encounter. Edit: Devil's Sight would be fun too.

All of that makes sense. The Ogre Mage needs a couple more hit dice and another damage-dealing ranged power or two (or another use of Cone of Cold) to hang with the CR8 critters - and even some of the CR7 ones. Once you buff him up though, he becomes more isolated from the niche that Mearls...

I was completely unaware of any market analysis of players (regardless of edition) and what race they tended to play. I'd be interested in reading it, even if it's just an article or interview about the study without the actual numbers.

I only have this as part of the digital collection, but a friend had a physical copy. We played quite a bit of AGTFOS, although much later when the expansion "Outside the Znutar" or somesuch came out. I remember reading this from the Dragon Archive a couple of years ago and feeling that Kask's...

I don't have any stats for most of those things in the books I own, so no. Getting lower and lower quality figures of things I don't use in my game has been a pretty big sticking point when it comes to buying DDM. Like Steel Wind, I prefer lots of monsters anyway, but having older school...

Regardless of what you, me, and a completely undocumented "large" portion of players think of this edition or that, Yeti was talking about ease of converting and using materials between editions and not whether anyone hated/loved/binned any particular edition.

Yah, that'll work.