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Unless they want to play a Tortleman! Those people can just get the hell out, no discussion.

I like to use something I called a Deferred Conflict. Basically, instead of having the player roll the dice when they take the action, they roll the dice when the consequences would be known. This lets you combine the excitement of resolving the situation 'live' and in the open while still...

I think it makes a big difference for books. AD&D 2e benefitted hugely from all those full page paintings. MERP similarly gained a real feeling of groundedness and epicness from those wonderful Angus McBride covers and the incredible Pete Fenlon maps. Vampire and Werewolf's moddy black and white...

If these high tech gadgets are legitimate you will struggle to buy them with cash.

What are their options if it goes wrong? 'Oh sorry I crushed it by accident'. Are they taking Superman to court? Risk upsetting him? They'd be out millions of pounds with no comeback. How does each government know that you didn't add a surveillance/kill switch device to their satellite, at the...

Do you think jumping to these extreme examples makes you look more reasonable, or less? Stop with the heir to the halfling empire and the jedi in middle earth shtick.

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I stabbed myself in the eye with a (real) Christmas Tree and got pine needles stuck between my eye and my eye lid.

Many people tell me that Other Worlds is the best RPG to play when you're not playing D&D, also the designer is apparently very handsome and prone to making stupid posts when he is drunk.

100%. Also, D&D is great! AD&D/AD&D 2e is great and 4th edition (sorry not sorry) is great. They both deliver different experiences and deliver them well. Making 'D&D' the default RPG and trying to make it fit everything does a disservice to those other genres/playstyles but also does a...

Well maybe but I believe you are in the UK too. Police quite regularly seem to repeat old images and say 'we're still looking for this person, do you know who they are?'. It doesn't seem to be that great a means of finding people. If you already are a suspect and they can match you up to an...

So if you allow one player to play something different, you must therefore allow everyone? How would this be enforced, exactly? Also, why do all the players in your 'no tortles' game want to play tortles? Is it like a forbidden fruit thing? Are they not on board with the setting's deep lore?

No no, the GM will only allow you to play tortles! Everything else is on the banned list! There is no capitulation, you must play and you must play... forever

That isn't true.

In terms of CCTV and so on, one thing that's quite common in the UK is for the police to show (low resolution) images of people of interest in a crime and to ask the public to identify them. Being caught on camera by itself isn't the end of the world if you're not already someone who is well...

But how do the rest of us know what wealth-resources-etc Lanefan has access to? ;)

I can think of at least one country where a few super-powered murders of government officials would do a hell of a lot of good.

I've been stating all along that I'm talking about the subjective experience of the players. I don't know what you mean by 'what happens in the setting' outside the experience of the participants. I don't know what this means or what it is in response to. I haven't mentioned the N word once.

Neither are the players in your game! They think they are, and they make dice rolls, but you never tell them if they were right or not.

You're telling me that you create mysteries that cannot be solved, and then when the players incorrectly think they have solved them, and go to the authorities about an actually innocent person, you say 'sure thing'?