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I picked up a few things I totally expected to: The Mountain Witch: The game where the story is written in blood up the snowy slopes of Mt. Fuji. Great trust mechanic, which I look forward to dissecting in greater detail after I've had a chance to see it in action in more than a demo. Very...

See, that's again my bid for "All I want is flight." How much extra work would that actually be? Yeah, I'd want to go around and rescue people from burning buildings, and such... but if there's a bank robbery, my inclination would be to say "Hey, flying yes, bulletproof NO! I'm leaving that...

Everybody's actually read Frankenstein, right? I totally agree with the folks who are saying that you can handle this in one of two ways: Declare it not evil: The corpses are neutral tools, or can be persuaded to actually actively do good (as with the "raise your own ancestors" bit, which is...

Sure, I wasn't saying that you couldn't get that. I'm talking about the stupid, pointless things that people do and immediately regret. "Kick-yourself" moments, where you act contrary to your own interests for no good reason. They're great story fodder.

Honestly, I just want to fly. My brain can provide a list of other powers that I feel I should want, but my heart knows only one.

I don't want to turn this thread from it's (very productive!) purpose... but when I hear people saying "Oh, I find Author stance very natural, and use it whenever it suits my purpose," or "Well, I totally prefer Actor stance, it just feels better," I wonder... What game systems are you using...

If I immersed myself in my character's motivations, and wanted the things he wanted, then how could I deliberately and heartlessly screw him over for my own entertainment? I like guys who make huge, consequential, screechingly obvious mistakes. Characters who snatch defeat from the jaws of...

Con game of Proton High School (high school supers). Jack Quinn (the insufferably virtuous and powerful class president) and his arch-nemesis Horatio Hiss (mentalist and all around bad-boy) had been going at it for a good long while when someone decided to introduce Lady Hiss (Horatio's mother)...

I just don't get why you, as a GM, would hesitate to give this player what he wants. Especially since he so clearly stated it. "Looking for magic book-marks, NO. Looking for curmudgeonly teachers, hidden sects of warrior-monks and knights guarding magic bridges, YES." He's not objecting to...

I put out a lot of vague and evocative phrases, then see which ones the players pick up on. If they're never going to care about the tree-slavers of Harrows Gate then I don't want to have done more than that phrase, right there. If, on the other hand, they go totally obsessive about the...

Rel: Sure. I'll buy that. But you could still justify threading those things into the Miranda (if it served your creative purposes) for the same reason that the Miranda rights are frequently given to people who are pressed face-down on the ground: you simply don't know what you're dealing...

A quick point to bear in mind here: Weight and bulkiness. Police officers (and their departments) will pay good money to reduce either one by as much as a few ounces. Those guys carry a LOT of stuff, and when the weight gets too much they're tempted to leave things behind. You don't want...

Feh on the defeatist attitudes! I say "Feh!" It's a bold new age of populist communication, in which grass-roots activism has a perfectly fair shot against (also effective) mass-marketing. It's an honor to be nominated, yes. But what the nomination has mainly done for me is that I'm in the...

Muse of Fire, actually. The top page is me too, but it's me in my video-editing, animation capacity. The link here goes to the RPG stuff. EDIT: And, for what it's worth, I think got Denise the wrong information. So, totally all my fault, no error on their part, just me chasing down my own...

I'm a bit surprised that website links (where available) weren't included for the games. For some games that don't (for business model reasons) push into the FLGS very hard, the web is the primary point of contact, and a terrific source of information. So, anyway, Capes is here, for those who...

It's like the difference between a democracy that actually does always elect the same guy, and a dictatorship. If people are dissatisfied with their options, do they have the power to override the GM short of leaving the game? From the outside it's hard to tell. From the inside you usually...

Wow... I'm still pretty hazy from lack of sleep at DEXCON 8, but getting hit with all of this of a monday morning is certainly a wonderful (if immensely confusing) present to cap off my long weekend. On behalf of Capes, I'm very honored and humbled to be placed in such august company. Wow.

And for anyone who likes the western/itinerant setting, but who's willing to get a bit away from generic game-rules. Primetime Adventures is a game pretty much explicitly modelled to run Firefly. Dogs in the Vineyard is as good a game for supporting mechanically why gunfights happen morally as...