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So you're conceding that players don't meaningfully impact what happens in play? You're The Author and they're just replaceable audience members?

Note how you have made 'I want to play race X' the same as playing an evil PC, or making the game some sort of awkward sexual harassment experience involving children, or triggering the GM's phobias. It's almost like you know that 'I want to play race X' is a difficult thing to object to unless...

He was entitled. All that poetry and making up stuff about the gameworld. Mainly the poetry.

Tolkien initially said no hobbits! But then he let one player be a hobbit and when three more made the same request he was trapped by an unavoidable precedent.

Oh yeah. The GM says 'no Tortlemen'. What an auteur they must be.

I arranged a playtest of one once but no-one showed up

I don't think casual players who don't want to try new things are 'the great majority' of the hobby.

Make your mind up! Is it the greatest film ever, or isn't it?!?one

If nothing else this thread might have sold me on watching the Superman film.

Normally the PC just sort of hangs out in the background. Only rarely (and out of necessity) would another player roleplay them, although in combat we would normally have someone operate them (probably ineptly). Sometimes if the PC is the focus of the pending session, and those moments cannot...

I suggest that anyone who has experience of being a manager or leader in the real world knows that it is done with consent. In fact seeking consensus and being willing to negotiate and compromise - not on everything, clearly, but where possible - is a sign of confidence and skill in a manager or...

Catching up on the thread, but can I just check what you mean here? I agree that if the premise is explicitly 'you are all dwarves' or something, a player saying 'hey can I be a tortleman' is not cool. The GM is absolutely right to say no. If a player has a very good explanation for how such a...

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.