The Gaming Den

You fucking well can't make a character based on Rincewind because his singular power is "can't die as long as he doesn't know he can't die". Which, on a player level involves abusing that ability to the limit by setting up situations where the choice is between success and death to achiev...

What I call the Hunter Dissonance is the best expression of the difficulty of implementing a Badass Normal in a setting with supernatural creatures. Hunters in White Wolf are literally normal dudes who get touched on the dick by magic beings and given magic powers ... so they can kill all those magi...

Resistance to take 10 and take 20 is a minor variation of enthusiasm for critical hit/fumble tables.

The ability of players to leave is exactly why they are equal in power to the DM. It's far harder for a DM to replace lost players than it is for a player to find a new gaming group, or a gaming group to replace its DM They aren't equal in power. They don't have an equal say. If the DM says, "...

Oh fuck you don't play the semantics game and pretend you're contributing.

I'll say it. As long as I don't totally dickslap the PCs and railroad them as an epic level douchenozzel, I'm pretty much free to do whatever I like, and I'll still have gamers come back to me to run games for them. Like I said, being a DM is a hard enough job that most players have shockingly low ...

Sorry, I don't buy into that "player equality" bullshit. The DM puts the most work into the game out of everyone, and he's the rules arbitrator. If you don't like the way he's running things, leave or run your own game. The ability of players to leave is exactly why they are equal in powe...

In 3E I give fighters (and other mundanes) nice things by treating the GP in the wealth-by-level table as a point-buy system of item acquisition. In 4E every time a character levels up, they get one item of that new level. In both cases I use the Tome "8 items or less" rule on magic items....