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The point of gaming is to have fun and that is always a top goal. If you had a fun night it doesn't mater what rules you've been using, what setting and what was the quest about. Still, we as a game masters sometimes spend a lot of time preparing NPCs, stories and combat encounters. For us...

I'll keep that in mind ;)

Thanks for the replies but like I said before the player wants a regular animal, nothing magical and we prefer a low fantasy game. Either way, I'm gonna allow the player to play a war dog as a companion to some other player and we'll see where that takes us.

Yeah you are correct. It can spin out of control easily.

This is what I'm afraid of but as Lindeloef suggested, telepathy with an interesting background can work nicely.

Hmm, perhaps he could have a link with one of the other players.

It's not, main problem is speech though.

I agree, and that's how I'll handle it. I guess the issue, I and the rest of the group have, is that he wants and actual animal. So limited intelligence and lack of dialog is the problem. - On the side, what kind weird requests did your players have?

I've never saw that post before :D

Yeah I was thinking about the similar solution. He isn't shy, he is the very opposite. It's just that it's kind of odd request after 12 years of gaming together.

One of my players keeps bugging me to allow him to play an animal. I allowed it once for a one-session-adventure to play some kind of a war hound and he loved it. We made him some special bite attacks and he would assist the party mostly as a distraction for the guards. I remember that they...

I think they are. For one, religion in my campaign setting is based on faith. Gods never showed themselves and I never said to my players that they do or do not exists. This is probably because I'm conflicted on the matter myself. A lot of my villains are simply misguided characters whose desire...

I don't think it's much of an issue when you are able to create a powerful combo in a classless system. I find it much worse when one class is significantly more powerful or weaker than other classes in a class based system.

I once scared my player really good. They showed me the goosebumps! Here is how it went: They were staying at the inn in some remote village. They just finished a quest and they weren't expecting anything to happen. I told them that some noise wakes them up, coming from below. Simple...

So very true. I'm one of them as well, with a project about to finish unfunded. Luckily I learned a lot from it and met some great people. But if we were successful, I don't think we would have problems with delivering what we promised. We already have a good chunk of work finished and I also...

Well that's poor management, isn't it?

I understand that, but the project with bigger budget is still more likely to succeed than fail.

I think one of the main issues in this case is that the project was 300% over the needed budget and yet nothing will be produced. When a project reaches only a 100% it should be expected that they still might fail, but 300%? That for me spells immediate project success and more.

I guess then some kind of contingency plan should be in order. Let's say you need 20.000$ to print and ship and somewhere along the way you fall short. If your digital book pledge costs 20$ and your pledge with a printed book and shipping costs 50$ and you waste 10.000$ you can still give...

Or if the system is well made it could use it as an advantage. I never liked in D&D how a fighter or a wizard can easily min-max. If the system favors balancing skills, stats and abilities instead of boosting a small number, there wouldn't be min-maxing behavior. Those who do min-max would have...