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Skimmed through the rpg.net read through (no way I have time to read 4000 posts) ...some interesting discussion, but also I wonder sometimes: Do these people even like playing games? :)
Meaning, at the beginning of a game session, I just want to make an interesting character and play them - I don't worry about what they're going to be at 5th Level compared to some other class I could have picked. I guess we don't do a lot of "meta-gaming"- just make a character and get going - let the role-playing direct the story from there not the rules. We hit a confusing rule - make something up and move on. Actually, much of it is the way most play now ends up being one-shots or very short campaigns, so few of these issues are probably ever going to come into play anyway - we're all married with kids, etc. so a long, multi-year campaign is never going to happen. Ever.
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The number of questions I'm asking on these forums tends to be directly proportional to how active the current game I'm running is, and the questions are things that either came up or had the chance to come up but didn't require a ruling on the spot, or the ruling we went with felt weird. We're all adults and are willing to accept the possibility of "hey, we did it this way, but after some advice from the forums, it seems like that will break down farther down the line" and change it.
I can attest to the power of this: we played the Kingmaker pathfinder campaign many years ago, and we used the default PF/3.x assumptions of magic availability and created fairly absurd scenarios pretty quickly. My favorite was when the gunslinger provided dozens of barrels of gunpowder for other members of the party to carry after magic users cast invisibility and fly so that we could stealth bomb some river-ships that were carrying troops towards our capital.
[quote="tgcb"]
Also - chatted friends today because I saw the "Gamergate" comment - none of us had a clue what it was (even my video game addict friends) - so a non-issue for us. Did make me wonder though: What is stopping Alex from creating another rpg.net account and posting stuff there as "another person"? :)
Anyway, thanks for starting the rpg.net thread - hopefully it will generate more well-deserved interest in ACKS.
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Most places on the internet frown VERY heavily upon making alternate accounts, commonly called "sock puppeting", and a statstically significant % of the RPG communityonline will drag your name through the mud if they suspect you are or ever have been a sock puppeteer.