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Paglia is a disgusting gender-essentialist homophobic twatshitter. That “Heather Has Two Mommies” business gives me the creeps! — and it can only confuse a kid. I’m completely against that two fathers, two mothers stuff. I think it’s gay activism gone horribly awry — people making political points ...

I think there exists some possibly large set of extremely boring people who only want to play humans. But you shouldn't assume that applies to everyone. There exist tons of people who want to play anything but humans in a fantasy rpg because their defining trait is being boring as shit. I fail to s...

I've had a headache for the last five hours, so I'm making a bigger deal out of this than I should, but in my experience, people play humans. To get them to play anything else, you either have to give them something ridiculously unbalanced, or appeal to their fetishization of [X]. I could get a fri...

So I guess if the races are interesting, people will actually pick race first. But if you're limited to elf/dorf/shortie1/shortie2 no one gives a shit and will pick which ever one doesn't suck for the class/role they have in mind? Race is important for some players. No matter how good a dwarf, gnom...

What color is the sky on your planet, PL?

PL, get off your persecution complex. I didn't say it was bad to surprise the GM - just that it can lead to retaliation, and escalate. Some people like that. I've played games where I used the rules to trick the GM, setting up surprises he didn't see coming. And the GM tried to do the same to the pl...

The better photoshop software gets, the easier it'll be to create revenge porn pictures out of normal pics and porn.

Why do people fetishize rules heavy party Some do it because it gives them the Illusion of control over the evil gm out to ruin their fun. Others simply like to be able to plan their actions knowing the odds and rules applied before stating what they do. Sometimes those also like to pull the rug ou...

Turning an on the spot ruling into a rule is generally not a good idea. Rulings work best for stuff that doesn't come up often enough to need a rule - whole social interaction systems usually do not fall into that category.

I think I have the ability to separate in-character knowledge and out-of-character knowledge, but I greatly prefer to keep them completely separate. It's harder to act against your character's interests if you know the consequences. If I KNOW that there is a treasure I overlooked, can I justify goi...

That sort of double-think is actually a minimum requirement for me to play with someone. I've played with a guy who could not do it in the past, and I won't Play with him again. I thought people were being hyperbolic when they said that you're such a huge asshole, you'd kick people out for minor di...

If a player cannot play a character as fearing death despite knowing character death is not on the table then that's not a player I want at my table. I think double-think is hard. It's easier to pretend that something exists when it exists. If your rules don't support the playstyle you like, you ma...

If a player cannot play a character as fearing death despite knowing character death is not on the table then that's not a player I want at my table.

REALLY. It can be a kick in the nuts to lose a character, sure, but it also sucks to retire them, have games just die off, have DMs want to switch to something new, or all the other reasons you eventually have to stop playing your current favourite. Dog knows I've lost more characters to eternal-po...

This is the Den. For all the claims about liking intellectual honesty here people never admit they are wrong. They will twist your words, and outright lie to save face.

The difference is no matter what (house)rules you use, the rules are something the players can know in advance. I would be very surprised if the 'rules not ruling' people here all play 3.5 RAW. But I would expect that most of them agree ahead of time what rules they're using. I would be very surpri...

But if no rules are being used and the rules are only decided when an action is declared (a ruling) players won't know what is happening, and their chances of success improve by sucking off the GM. If the rule is known by a player, then there's no need for a ruling. Rulings only come into play when...

But if no rules are being used and the rules are only decided when an action is declared (a ruling) players won't know what is happening, and their chances of success improve by sucking off the GM. If the rule is known by a player, then there's no need for a ruling. Rulings only come into play when...

The "rules heavy" crowd simply refuses to acept that not everyone else needs as many rules as they do for their game. That's about it. No one says rules shouldn't be good - but a good rule you don't need is still a rule you don't need to learn, or look up. If you don't need rules for sex t...

And as I keep pointing out - we don't need the rules we don't look up. I'd ask you to try to understand the difference, if I thought you'd have the mental flexibility for that. You can use that statement on any rule that exists. There is a clear difference between needed rules - rules we use almost...

Well I think you have hit the nail on the head. That's the whole thing. People are too lazy, arrogant, and/or retarded to really learn or follow the rules. Lazy? I really have better things to do with my time than learning rules I rarely to never use. If that's lazy, so be it. But! I am not exactly...

Well I think you have hit the nail on the head. That's the whole thing. People are too lazy, arrogant, and/or retarded to really learn or follow the rules. Lazy? I really have better things to do with my time than learning rules I rarely to never use. If that's lazy, so be it. But! I am not exactly...

Trying to force characters to hurry just so you can hurt them with traps will likely make them a) get "creative" in detecting traps (send expendable NPCs up ahead) b) just ignore the ticking time limit, choosing to fail more often instead of getting hurt more often c) try to counter or cir...

Assume they are taking 10 on spotting traps, mention how they defeated stupid traps in passing, while describing the scenery, and that should help making them not paranoid. Like telling them "I assume you're always on the lookout for traps, and you are being careful, you can simply say what you...

Because "oranges taste better than apples" is a preference. "Referencing rules is slow" is a statement of purported fact. It is disingenuous to argue for a preference as though it is fact, and it is stupid to argue for a fact (either subjective or objective, relative or universa...