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Yikes. The general consensus here about being a good GM is very different from my own opinion on being a good GM on several points, so much so that I probably shouldn't say anymore. I've seen people try to argue with the Den, as a whole, before. It isn't pretty. I wouldn't recommend it. Especially t...

If anything sometimes it seems like those things are inversely related.

Welp now this topic is just flat-out about discrimination (if it ever wasn't). Wearing black does not make you "goth" or "emo" any more than it makes you Johnny Cash. And the idea that it makes you a bad GM is even more specious. Stop fucking whining. "Baww discrimination.&...

I don't know Koumei well enough to make the call on that.

Okay, next point for discussion is that people who tend to wear black (and could possibly be called "goths" back in the day, before emo took over) tend to make shitty DMs. Discuss. Welp now this topic is just flat-out about discrimination (if it ever wasn't). Wearing black does not make y...

Maybe I am failing my Sense Motive Check here but it seems to me... Someone whom I trust implicitly and who has impeccable bona fides has informed me that Loren did indeed steal from the company, and that pretty much everything he's been accused of is in fact true to a large extent. ...that Clutch i...

Alright.

If that is what happened, shouldn't this logically be a criminal case? With either those people (owners or non-owners as the case may be) pressing charges (for either embezzlement or fraud as the case may be)?

Thank you for that, kzt. It was educational. That is what they admitted to, and while it may or may not fall under the umbrella of "shady underhanded dealing", and it seems to indicate the presence of "shady underhanded dealing" it does not seem to be the same as them admitting t...

apparently self-identified gay men are fucking pimps

And still I think <5% of them visiting the forums was probably a pretty good estimate. Most people who play games don't read forums for games. And 42% of all statistics are made up on the spot, but I'm willing to concede this point because I don't care. I myself was a long time Shadowrun player who...

That's because you haven't read the hundreds of posts on the matter. I actually read this whole goddamn topic (it was excruciating and a time sink but I did it, so don't talk to me about educating myself, please) but not the four hundred million page ones on Dumpshock. Now I have not read it MORE T...

There's just a LOT about this that I don't understand. Mainly, why, if a crime of the alleged magnitude has been committed, no one has been charged with anything. Why an alleged thief was allowed to retain the license by the very company he alegedly stole from, albiet through the end of the calende...

But-but-but-but....

Ah, fuck it. I can only debate dog fucking so long.

Sapient adults having sex with animals who are not is never OK. Period.

Ordinary wolves have language and culture in WotA?

I disagree with your supposition that adult dogs are the same as human children, especially adult (sapient) wolves. Yeah I am fairly done talking about dogrape. Except for the comment (go back two pages please) that I don't think WtA is inherently about that. I made lengthy arguments on that point a...

The point someone made that ordinary wolves in WtA have (a form of) language and culture indicates that they are sapient and that a werewolf in wolf form is effectively their peer and equal. This has an important effect on this argument. Politenewb, in the last thread we established that whenever an...

I have just discovered what MUST become the new universal image macro for 'fail':

I think calling someone a child molester for disagreeing with you is probably a bit much, Frank. : / Just because magnuskin's questioning the morality of werewolves having sex with wolves in a fictional context doesn't mean that he has raped or will rape dogs or children in life. That said, I like y...

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Well of course the story isn't about these awesome people...it is about the PCs. And I personally like the 'muggles stuck in a world of crazy shit who nonetheless do important things' angle. The way that I think of it, internally, is that an NPC can be more important to the UNIVERSE, but the PCs are...

Well, I can think of worse things than that.

But I am really fascinated to see if they feel the same way (i.e. that it is essentially non-interactive).

If the PCs care more about some NPC than their own character, you have failed at telling a cooperative story. Never heard about PC's who cared about npc more than about their character. Paladin or something like "true love" flaw? It is more that the players themselves just engaged with th...

I am thinking of a few different types of characters in my different campaigns that might be considered GMPCs: My aforesaid asshole GM had a character who...well, he was rather flummoxed when some of the party disliked her and did NOT go with her suggested plan right off. He didn't have the chops to...

The point isn't even that they went on about the virtues of raping women and animals, although they fucking did! The point is that raping women and animals was the logical thing to do if you wanted to address the dying breed plotline. Like how the logical answer to the Technocracy War in Mage is to...