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No, you said that a few times. But you also said the things I just directly quoted, where you specifically said a bunch of things about how your version is better. ??? Kaelik, you appear, again, to have not addressed any of the points made, assumed bad faith, refused to answer questions, and preten...

Also, while Kaelik is most certainly NOT a real person, he has made statements about how "some" or "many" people do things. He has not been as universal in his proclamations as you seem to claim. No, incorrect: he said a rule system designed to be customized was "worthless&...

So just to be clear, playing a rulings not rules game is substantially superior to all those shitty bad people who play games that are tactically challenging while focusing on player agency? Not at all in any way even a little. You seem to have not read what I typed. I repeatedly refused to make a ...

Other problems with MTPing stunts other than what was said: [*] MTPing freeform stunts often leads to narrative filler and padding, because no one wants to be denied a bonus because they tried a creative but succinct stunt. Or they don't actually have an action more novel than 'kick the orc', but t...

You see, this is not a DM advice forum, it is a game design forum. MTP is a bad thing in game design because no one needs rules to come up with MTP. If you write rules under the expectation that everyone will change them, then your product is worthless. Zak, your disconnect sounds similar. You seem...

Which of the following do you think is false: 1) if you change the rules as they relate to X, people might want to make characters that use X. False at my table. 2) If you change the rules as they relate to X, you should let people change their characters to make use of X. True, but rules never get...

If it is in the rulebook, people assume it was done by a professional, someone who was paid for it and knows what (s)he is doing. Maybe you assume that. My group would assume the opposite: if it is in the book it is less customized and thought through than what we'd come up with. We've always been ...

I always use MTP slightly differently. For me it is just making stuff up as you go along. So houserules would not (necessarily) fall under MTP as long as you made them clear before play. What if you made it clear after play began but before the player committed to the action (and then keeping that ...

Around here MTP is when you're doing things that aren't in the rules by coming to an agreement based on anything else: world-logic or common sense or buying pizza or cake or collective worldbuilding, whatever. It's not disparaging, as such. Yes, I know that, and I think--disparaging or not--it is t...

Again, to be a stickler, the rules for breaking objects in 3e would only get in the way there, ignoring them and letting it work is the correct answer. And this is why I think using the term "Magical Tea Party" so broadly that it refers to anything not in the book --even a choice between ...

But is there a situation where you would say "no" to a player's choice? 1. If something's already been established as working one way, you don't change it. That's unfair to everyone who has been making choices based on how it was. 2. Like everybody else, I have a world and it has aestheti...

This is awesome for a "power fantasy" game and totally shits all over players who are into it for a tactical thinking exercise where your choices are supposed to matter. I realize that I've argued before on this very board that tabletop RPGs don't really have "objective difficulty,&q...

Oh, I get it

Can I still have my ten bucks?

That's actually not a personal attack, that's a rundown of the things one would expect someone coming to a forum specifically to defend there own stuff through a sock puppet to do. You'd be right if it weren't for this part: [*]Who has a demonstrated record of doing all of the above... . That is al...

It's cute that David has to prove he's not me, but this... You showed up... [*]Using a name that couldn't possibly be cross-referenced ("David" may be a terrible pseudonym, but it's an amazing anonym)... [*]With hyperbolic praise about the author... [*]Who has a demonstrated record of doin...

Vnonymous wrote:Welcome to the forums Zak S.

That's not me, this is me.

And I am watching this thread with amusement. Carry on.

Oh, and that one guy owes me ten bucks.