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<blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 6627036" data-attributes="member: 67338"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I think he doesn't believe in odds and hates when people quote them... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />it's a game...it's a game&nbsp;it's a gameyou know what a sport and D&amp;D combat have in common... they are both games...&nbsp;unless you are playing a legendary hero... or really any tv show or book protagonist (well ones not written by martin)that's pretty close to what I want... let me explain.I want I good story and I want it to feel hard pressed and earned, but the secret is... I want the PCs to win...everytime. They don't, they win they loose, sometimes PCs die. But I am hopeing they pull it off everytime. I am disappointed when a PC dies (although I don't pull my punches) and happy when they win. I do my best to make every victory worth it...&nbsp;it's a game it is as much in common with warfare as HE-MAN, or Yu-Gi-OH, or Batman, or Hercules the legendary Journey, or JEM....&nbsp;that is pretty much how I start every campaign... but I still make sure they numbers balance so they can still win...2e, 2e w/ combat and tactics and skills and power, 3e, 3.5, pathfinder, 4e, 5e, rifts, deadlands, savage world, gurps... all of them I play the same way... and run the same way... I assume the PCs will win more often then not and am secretly chairleading that victory 99% of the time...now you see all of this is PC compaired to world...Pc compare to PC is my issue of the thread... I don't want someone playing Merlin, and someone else stuck playing ron weasly.... or one person gets to be connan the barbarian and the other bobby the barbarian....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GMforPowergamers, post: 6627036, member: 67338"] :)I think he doesn't believe in odds and hates when people quote them... :cool: it's a game... it's a game it's a game you know what a sport and D&D combat have in common... they are both games... unless you are playing a legendary hero... or really any tv show or book protagonist (well ones not written by martin) that's pretty close to what I want... let me explain. I want I good story and I want it to feel hard pressed and earned, but the secret is... I want the PCs to win...everytime. They don't, they win they loose, sometimes PCs die. But I am hopeing they pull it off everytime. I am disappointed when a PC dies (although I don't pull my punches) and happy when they win. I do my best to make every victory worth it... it's a game it is as much in common with warfare as HE-MAN, or Yu-Gi-OH, or Batman, or Hercules the legendary Journey, or JEM.... that is pretty much how I start every campaign... but I still make sure they numbers balance so they can still win... 2e, 2e w/ combat and tactics and skills and power, 3e, 3.5, pathfinder, 4e, 5e, rifts, deadlands, savage world, gurps... all of them I play the same way... and run the same way... I assume the PCs will win more often then not and am secretly chairleading that victory 99% of the time... now you see all of this is PC compaired to world... Pc compare to PC is my issue of the thread... I don't want someone playing Merlin, and someone else stuck playing ron weasly.... or one person gets to be connan the barbarian and the other bobby the barbarian.... [/QUOTE]

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