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I know for a fact there are multiple regulars here that GM with the attitude of "My game is EXACTLY how I want it to be and if you don't like it you can leave". I think that many GMs still work with that train of thought. And while I would t say they are bad GMs in any sort of factual...

It was only a decade previous when peeping at women showering was a comedy movie staple.

And I'd counter with the idea that for me the most important thing at a table is to have a fun time. I'd rather a railroady GM who constantly flubbed rules and had a series of NPCs they used to self insert in a fun adventure than a boring session. Now the chance it would be fun with all those...

All RPGs have story loss. Fail to save that NPC you liked....loss. Town gets overrun by demons...loss. Didn't win the trophy in the lie eating contest....loss. I can't imagine a game where story based loss doesn't drive the narrative vastly more than all other factors. But then again when...

Indeed we likely have very different ideas of the general framework of a game. In my world "bog standard" enchanted items exist but mostly in the form of potions and scrolls. More permanent magical items are almost always one of a kind and uniquely useful in niche situations. In my mind the...

Your post is exactly the energy I'm talking about. In 1989 we killed a pile of kobolds and then when searching in their haybale beds we would find "a +1 dagger, a potion of invisibility, 3sp". There was no fanfare....the excitement about the dagger was that number went up. Now, in my games...

I could not disagree more with this take. I want to run the game that fits exactly what my players want to play. I want my adventures to feature what they want to explore. I want the story to come from their desires. I could care less during character creation of players mix and match pretty...

When we are discussing minions (or any other monster role) as per 4e we are necessarily discussing two levels of reality applied to the same thing....the narrative creature AND the mechanical framework they work under in the game. My example exactly show a minion, as per the mechanics of 4e, in...

Please help me to understand how my example is not an "in-fiction" representative of a minion? He appears like any other tough foe that our protagonist encounters and no doubt could do alot of damage if he were to attack...but is oddly easy to dispatch in the narrative because that's what the...

Right. Just one example of why I balance judging the narrstive intent of a role with the stated effects. Much like minions somehow having a DIFFERENT biology than their source creature.

Can we go back to arguing if the Darkness spell cast in complete dark will actually generate light? That was fun.

That makes sense and I hope it's the truth for just about everyone here. I certainly have spent many hours here engaging in the same sort of debates. Over time my view of what D&D (or any RPG system) is has really changed. I no longer view it as a concrete and important set of LAWS THAT MUST...

RE: Hit points are meat. Last night's session, I had the joyous task of trying to explain how Vicious Mockery rendered a frantic deer dead/unconscious because the bard told him he couldn't swim. RE: Killed vs. Dead vs. Destroyed. Does anyone here really play D&D this way at their table...

I don't have to track them on my scrap sheet behind the GM screen. They get hit ..they die. No tracking conditions and any other kind of overhead....they get hit ..they die. Or they don't die and get knocked out. Or they run away. Or they cower in the corner because they are scared of big...

I describe my GM style as using the rules of an RPG as watercolors to paint a story. If my red isn't QUITE pink enough for my scene I'll mix in some white and get it closer to what I need for the moment. That's my take on rules and systems. There are so many ways behind the screen to use...

And here is where I think a creative GM can step in and merge the fiction with the mechanics in a way that makes the players feel empowered. As the GM creating a encounter along the lines of this idea is describe the ogre squad as having 7 memebers...one clearly the leader. The party rouses...

I went back and re-read the OP and there isn't any mention of profit making in the post. It's a call to simplify and shorten the length of a necromancers combat turns. A complex 25 skeleton wielding high level necromancer isn't undoable....it just might be incompatible with the direction that...

There are so many things that players choose not to do because they might disrupt the flow of the game. I don't see it as being a massively different expectation.