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No gaming is better than bad gaming. Get away from that cluster of awful. Well that's a... special definition of the word "easy".

I've always been a fan of the whole "talking like sensible mature people" thing. Sit down before the next game and say "Hey, so you know how you do these things? They're pretty disruptive to the group and spoiling everyone's fun. Is there a way we can work things so you can still enjoy playing...

I've used music quite heavily before and found there are three things it generally needs in order to work. 1) No vocals. Almost without exception vocals on a track make it distracting and intrusive, whilst instrumental pieces fit nicely in the background. 2) Loops well. Sometimes scenes drag...

I wish it had been done in the style of My Name Is Bruce, with the cast playing themselves thrown into the sort of situations their characters are usually in. Now that would have been a good movie.

That's a large part of my current Changeling campaign. There is a core plot, which I throw stuff in for, but most of the side stories and single session things are just a case of throwing stuff out there and deciding on the full details afterwards. Recently one of the players bought a box at a...

I did a modern horror type thing, which ran late at night, with candles by each player for illumination. As they gradually lost their grips on reality and gave into posession by the big gribbly extra-dimensional horror the candles slowly went out. By the very end the last non-posessed character...

Whilst it's not immediately obvious, and rarely on show, I have a Free League emblem from the Planescape setting on one arm, and a Sigil of Torment on the other. (In fact, I'm the first google image result for "planescape torment tattoo")

The setting is likely to be modern day with fantastical elements. The last one was modern London, in the wake of an intrusion by a gribbly Lovercraftian horror into normal reality. I like this idea, possibly have them believe they're being recruited into a covert cell of some intelligence...

As the title says, I need ideas for an apocalyptic evil. But not just any apocalyptic evil, one the players can be causing without initially realising. To give some background, I ran a two session game a while back in which the players played themselves, waking up in a locked room in the middle...

Running my Changeling game I'll have everyone's character sheet, and printouts of the relevant pages from the books for all their contracts/merits for them to refer to. A multitude of D10s and pencils in case people forget to bring their own. My laptop for the soundtrack and pdfs of all the...

Games I run are done on campus, since we have after hours access. Depending on our mood and the requirements of the game we'll usually either play in the grad lounge for comfy seating and the mini-kitchen, or one of the conference rooms, for the big table and the large touch screen displays. I...

The most over the top ongoing campaign (sort of), was a ludicrously high level 3.5 game. This reached its peak of over the topness when one character had a pair of portable ring gates surgically grafted onto the front of his shoulders, and a third placed around his wrist, leaving his left hand...

If only commies and Friend Computer know the number of commies in Alpha Complex, and there are no commies, then if I know this I must be one or the other and I cannot be a commie as there aren't any. It follows then that I must actually be Friend Computer. Any other suggestion would simply be...

But there are no commies in Alpha Complex; Friend Computer would not allow them. To imply that there are commies in Alpha Complex is to imply Friend Computer has made a mistake, and only a traitor would do that.

Power Kill Power Kill seems relevant to this thread. It's a meta-RPG construct that highlights the sometimes horrific violence and anti-social behaviour casually indulged in by some characters.

Apologies if I missed something, but wouldn't this create the potential for unhittable characters? Let's say we roll up our starting stats and each happen to get one six to distribute where we will. I put my 6 in Dex, you put yours in Str. If you attack me you're trying to beat my AC of 12...

I had a session start to go somewhat pearshaped due to misjudging how a player would react to an in game event. In a homebrew dark noir/fantasy detective thing, we had one player playing a gun mage. He had the ability to produce firearms from inside his jacket on demand, and tended to use...

We sometimes have this with new players in an ongoing WFRP campaign, and have taken to writing "This isn't D&D" in large letters on the chalkboard, for the GM to point at every time someone starts thinking about killing all the guys and looting the room.

tt]y Surely a close contender for best villain. Plays both sides in a galactic conflict to achieve his own ends, drives the protagonist blitheringly insane, has more style than you can shake a stick at, and ends up with a red-headed sidekick.

We have 4 basic classroom type tables side by side to form a roughly 8'x5' rectangle, with about 10 chairs around it. DM sits at one end, players arrange themselves around the rest of the table according to taste. Behind the DM are two huge chalk boards (benefits of using a room on campus)...