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Yep. I always ask my players to describe what they are doing a bit more than just checking for traps. Are they touching it? Standing back 75 feet and giving it an ocular patdown? Otherwise they never did anything that set off some negative effect. "What do you mean I set off the trap when...

I used to try to add in music and whatnot but I found I was spending too much time fiddling with that and mostly dropped it.

I had a player tell me he wanted to use intimidate during a fight in 3.5. I told him the most intimidating thing he could probably do was keep swinging that greatsword at his foe. But if he wanted to stop that and run off at the mouth he could give that a shot. I have a hard time thinking it...

I host and referee most of the time but I get off work an hour before game time so I lack time to cook for a group and I don't eat the garbage they do so. Usually I eat my dinner before arrival then they order pizza when they all get at my house. On the odd nights we game at another friends...

Looks like your boy is a chip off the old block when it comes to painting! How I wish I had someone else I game with painting miniatures.

78 models...you are a painting machine!

+1 for mentioning the classic of American 80's action cinema. Cobra. Crime is a disease...and he's the cure.

I would never give up all the rolls. Last night in our game a player was going to run by a warg to attack a different foe and I jokingly told him, "you sure you want to do that? He will get a free attack as you leave his engagement range and I'll probably crit you." He said yes and I promptly...

Now I'm down to 12 likes from 2013. Which means nobody really like me anymore. Mom was right!!! :(

Love it! keep these stories coming.

Love it! keep these stories coming.

Ran Swords and Wizardry (OD&D clone) Sunday afternoon and again tonight.

I run S&W in a meat grinder dungeon. Stats don't matter much, there aren't any skills to speak of, and the rules are pretty sparse. Awesome! Tell me what your PC is doing and I'll adjudicate according to the rules we have and if there aren't any I'll use my best judgment and try to be...

Don't get me started on my slow poke group...

Looks pretty much like the shop I wargame at. Mostly white dudes with some women, maybe 20-25%. They do Vampire LARPing on Saturday nights though and I bet the crowd changes a bit more for that but maybe not. Though in life I have yet to meet a woman who was into playing RPG to be honest...

Yeah its a 1e/3e mashup in a way. Its saves tied to each ability kind of bled into 3e with the primes kind of being your proficiency saves. Its a good game and I ran a campaign but I switched over to Swords and Wizardry since its even simpler and runs like lightning. I would heartily...

Violence can be bad, but it can also be very necessary. In D&D its usually very necessary to get those GP and XP. ;)

I have had mixed results with the contrasts paints but some are quite nice and I think the orc flesh one will let me finally knock out those 40+ orcs I have left over from the WFB boxed set I bought back in the 00's. I wonder if I can use only contrasts and bang out that entire lot in one...

They had the original Braunstein stuff at GaryCon and it seemed far more like LARP than anything else to me. LARP with props, which I think is just LARP.

We never ran hirelings or henchmen until my current S&W game and usually ran one PC, one power gamed out, min maxed, "sure I rolled those stats..." PC each. But we didn't run though a lot of the classic modules. Wish I had.