Not jealous, Proud!

The more work, detail, and creativity I put into my campaign world now, the more likely it is that I will actually go there when I finally snap. It can't possibly be much longer . . .

Quote from: Mcrow

• Old Geezer is in fact an old grump.
• Bigger the boom! the better
• It's the best social event for many
• RPGs are "Cops & Robbers" for all ages.
• There's nothing wrong with the 4th bullet above

• Halfling heads explode to easily when casting spells
• If you get a rep as a killer GM you will just attract more players
• Designing games can often be more fun than playing them.
• Playing games can often be more fun than selling them.
• Gencon Bitches!

I don't know how to do bulletpoints, so I will just say that between them Jeff and Settembrini have my convictions pretty much covered.

However, having looked at my Starter Traveller box just now, which I got for 1 (one) dollar, I feel I should add that geodesic maps are a very good thing. Especially in color.

Indeed, you should all go buy Starter Traveller, for it will make you happy. Everything you need is in this box. This I vow.

Quote from: HinterWelt

• Halfling heads explode to easily when casting spells
• If you get a rep as a killer GM you will just attract more players
• Designing games can often be more fun than playing them.
• Playing games can often be more fun than selling them.
• Gencon Bitches!

I agree.

Note to self: don't fumble your fire breath roll.

If you get a rep for being a killer GM people show up just see if it's really that bad, like gawkers at a car accident.

Quote from: Settembrini

• RPGs are the best and cheapest holo-deck equivalent in existance
• painting minis is already playing the game
• prepping the session is already playing the game

Cool. I agree totally.

• Pirates, Ninjas & Monkeys are nor fun neither cool
• Reading a RPG book is already playing the game (in my head)

- System matters, but only in the most obvious sense: even the most namby-pamby "oh, it's all a matter of taste" weenie wouldn't claim that every RPG system out there is equally suitable to every conceivable campaign, and most people whose opinions I respect acknowledge that some RPG systems simply have more merit than others (anyone who doubts this point is invited to compare and contrast, say, Rifts with The World of Synnibar). A bunch of friends and I just wrapped up a Weapons of the Gods campaign and moved on to REIGN. We had fun in both, because the company was excellent, but we're far more interested in the actual game this time around, simply because our Weapons of the Gods sessions were taken up with one third shooting the shit, one third really needlessly long combats, and one third bitching about how badly-organised and poorly-playtested the system is, with perhaps a thin slice of non-combat roleplaying shoved in somewhere. Our REIGN sessions are one third shooting the shit and two thirds having a blast with the system.

- As Kyle is fond of reminding us, while system matters people matter more. If that one-third of the session spent shooting the shit, making fun of each other's characters, and giggling about in-jokes wasn't there I think my sessions would suffer for it.

- As a GM, I should really get into the habit of throwing just a little more at the players than I think they can handle; if there's no doubt in my mind as to whether or not they can handle a particular encounter, where's the excitement?

This I believe...

• Reading RPGs is fun.
• Talking about RPGs is fun.
• Playing RPGs is fun.
• The relative importance of RPGs to the overall world is very small, though the vitriolic debates over them would make you think otherwise.
• The internet world of RPGs is actually a very small part of the real world of RPGs.
  
• RPGs=friends gathering together for laughter, tense moments, surprises, and stories

• Playing DnD will totally get you laid.

* The amount of pleasure I derive from playing and running RPGs is inversely proportional to the amount of time I spend thinking about what passes for RPG "theory" of any sort

Quote from: Aos

• Playing DnD will totally get you laid.

How you doin'?

Quote from: KenHR* The amount of pleasure I derive from playing and running RPGs is inversely proportional to the amount of time I spend thinking about what passes for RPG "theory" of any sort

Reflecting upon the past six months as compared to the six before that, I'm amazed to realize that this is unquestionably true.

Quote from: Aos

• Playing DnD will totally get you laid.

never worked for me...I met my wife playing Champions

Allen

Quote from: Allenshnever worked for me...I met my wife playing Champions

Allen

Good God, man, you need to start up a D&D game at once!  Get that marriage consummated already!

Quote from: ErstwhileGood God, man, you need to start up a D&D game at once!  Get that marriage consummated already!

That happened 20 years ago..while waiting for our next phases

Being as it was the Hero System though, we just finished the combat turn last week...

(I kid, of course)

Allen