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I dunno. The latter two are pretty common in Cyberpunk games I've witnessed or experienced. Attitude - there's usually plenty of it. Risking life and limb for a big score or takedown of someone on principle? Plenty of that too. And as far as Style over Substance - you can have style and still be...

For a lot of cases with a setting, it may be one that's been run with before - just with a new set of players for a new campaign. Background work... largely already done. One of the players in my group has run a series of campaigns over the last 20 years out of his own campaign setting. And yes...

In a tense confrontation like the Cuban Missile Crisis, being able to drop some extradimensional beasties on Soviet command and control could be pretty devastating. Trouble is, the Soviets would pretty much know where it was coming from since they definitely knew about the gate shenanigans in...

Public school kids? I was learning a lot more coarseness from my cousins in Catholic school than the public schools. Some religious schools may have been sheltered, but not all of them were. But in any event, the cussing in ST is pretty mild compared to 1980s teen life.

I think that's a reasonable description of a situation in which a DM brings a game idea and then recruits players from some, sufficiently big pool - such as online players looking for a game or players at a convention/game store. There, the potential players really do outnumber the DMs and so...

That’s not what I said. Rather, I’m not going to get in a snit about someone wanting to play a tortle because they want to have a robust shell - or more to the point, because I think that’s the reason they want to play one. I’m gonna include or exclude the tortle for reasons of my own with...

I don't think they're immune but they probably know what happens. So I think if a draconian is looking like he's in trouble, his colleagues might start to move away from him to reduce their own vulnerability - or even use the death throes to their advantage. "Oh, look. Chad got separated from us...

Maybe because they were inspired by Master Oogway in Kung Fu Panda? It’s not a DM’s job to second guess why someone wants to play a character even if there are some reasons a DM wants to curate some options for the game they’re proposing to run.

You're the crank making the claim. That burden's on you.

Tell your friend that the new job is making it harder to stay late for the game and you're going to have to wind down your participation. Tell him you'd like to work out a graceful, meaningful exit with him. Then tell him you'd like to keep up with him about how the game's going - like on...

Looks like someone's got their pants hitched up to their armpits over there.

Tim Kask is reported to have passed away. Source is Jim Wampler on Facebook.

Oh, have you got a treat ahead of you! There are some utterly amazing passages in RotK.

Yeah, the draconians are tied up into such a shocking genocidal betrayal that I really don't want a player's PC to be in that position. I don't even want them to be draconian-adjacent to it.

Well, actually nothing. I'm still putting a hard stop on that one.

I think an even bigger danger isn't retreating toward an extreme position, itself, as much as characterizing the other side's opinions or arguments in extreme ways, which serves, whether intentionally done or not, to widen the gap between your own position and the other side's.

Man, is that confirmation bias something else!

I know you're not asking me but there is one campaign I would give you a hard no on playing a Dragonborn. And that's the Dragonlance setting. The draconians and their origin are too core and significant to the setting to muddle with another humanoid dragon species.

Kinda hard to complain about people getting their back up when you're bringing the tone that gets their back up.

Do you think you really need to ask that? But then, what's the point of using the more jerkish language in this thread when you'd phrase it differently to a person's face? Why wouldn't you use the more polite phrasing here too?