Admit your GMing biases

[Erlkonig]

Also known as
LINERS FUCK YEAH

I like my reasonable PC submissions thank you very much. I don't have the time NOR the humour to deal with somebody who tries to make the most out of char creation.

Also, I tend to like those who rely on well-written RPing quality and give detailed commands to defeat foes than those who try to overwhelm them with sheer power.

I fucking LOVE grimderp, but it's always funnier to slowly turn the GRIMDERP into NOBLEBRIGHT.

[Neir]

I tend to punish people who think they can work the system to be OP.

[SeiKeo]

I like my reasonable PC submissions thank you very much. I don't have the time NOR the humour to deal with somebody who tries to make the most out of char creation.

Yeah. That I can kind of deal with, but I do dislike arguing against a power change.

[Five_X]

Goddamn rules lawyers. GURPS works however I want it to; half the rules are optional!

Remember the good ol' days, when players couldn't read the DMG and such?

[SeiKeo]

Ah, the days when players didn't try to GM for you...

[Neir]

People should try to make reasonable characters

[RacingeR]

I like my reasonable PC submissions thank you very much. I don't have the time NOR the humour to deal with somebody who tries to make the most out of char creation.

Also, I tend to like those who rely on well-written RPing quality and give detailed commands to defeat foes than those who try to overwhelm them with sheer power.

Pretty much this, with some added things.

First over, I flat out don't accept players with powers that are ultra exploiteable to break the plot or to completely and utterly screw someone. Mind control? Memory manipulation? That kind of shit does not fly with me.

Second, the more powerful your character is, the more powerful your foes will be. It is a pretty simple rule, because curbstomps are the epitome of BORING.

I also tend to favor quality in the posts. The more well written, but at the same time CLEAR, the better.

[Lotus Saint]

Step over the line and I'll have your character raped nonstop for days by gang members while their mother dies a slow and painful death of cancer.

First over, I flat out don't accept players with powers that are ultra exploiteable to break the plot or to completely and utterly screw someone

Mellon says hi.

[Mellon]

Mellon says hi.

Fuck you, Lotus. The only person with any right to be on my case is Erl and that was his fault as much as mine.


God damn. I swear, with half the GMs here, Fate and Tsuki would have never happened.

All we would have heard was "baww, Berserker too strong" and "Bazett, Shiki and Shirou too broken". As long as the ability is interesting enough, there is no issue with it being powerful. It is just a game of balancing. If an ability is too strong, you add weaknesses in other areas. Shirou is balanced by having no prana. Bazett is balanced with having a stupidly weak Servant. Berserker is balanced by having no brains.

Saying something is "too powerful and that is that" is just an alternative to saying that you are too lazy to balance it properly. I find any "balance issues" doubly ridiculous in an RP that has variable powerlevels built in it to begin with. Your characters are not going to be "equally-powered" anyway. And if your system allows for characters that completely break your IG power-balance then there is something wrong with the system, not the player.

We might as well have characters that all have identical abilities for a "true balanced experience".

And for gods sake, pick a power level and stick to it when you are making an RP. Not swap it around every 2 days like an indecisive teenage girl.

[hero]

I'm a profile reading addict.

Especially the 'Special Power' section (?).

[Verg Avesta]

Agreeing with Mellon here. I have no qualms about special powers as long as they are well justified and well-worked out. And that they have reasonable drawbacks as well, since frankly, powers which make the character super OP make the RP dull. There are always two edges to a sword, and that's how it should be, if one wants the RP to be interesting. Some powers are excellent against some characters, but on the other hand, they might be completely useless against some characters. And for me, that's the beauty of RPs.

[deviatesfish]

As a GM I tend to...

Never Let Players Die: Players who are in the game for the long haul are really in it for the long haul. While I do advice story and plot a lot and adapt to the players, I rarely allow them to be permanently kicked out of the game. I will do my best to either make opportunities for the players to get out of their about-to-die-predicaments or I will subtly dumb down some enemies. Or something like that. I actually don't do this consciously.

Torture The Players I Like: Players who I get to know and like after playing with them for a while are usually taking the blunt end of everything. Because I love them, they get tough love. Thus, the players I like are usually the first to experience the eldritch horrors of my games.

Torture All My Players: I like to have eldritch horrors everywhere and give the most emotionally painful experiences to my players when possible. I do this subconsciously.

Allow My Players Interesting, Overpowered Powers: This doesn't help them against the eldritch horrors much. The players don't usually see this coming.

[Erlkonig]

Ok, so

Basically

Fish:
-Traps his players in and endless cycle of torture, pitted against horrifying eldritch horrors from the beyond, and never allows them to leave the game, as they cannot die, so they forever experience the tortue and nightmares of the RP.

...I think I just felt a cold chill crawl up my spine.

and that was his fault as much as mine.

Damn straight, I'm horrible at balance

[Mike1984]

As a GM I tend to...

Never Let Players Die: Players who are in the game for the long haul are really in it for the long haul. While I do advice story and plot a lot and adapt to the players, I rarely allow them to be permanently kicked out of the game. I will do my best to either make opportunities for the players to get out of their about-to-die-predicaments or I will subtly dumb down some enemies. Or something like that. I actually don't do this consciously.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing, though, especially not in the early stages. Dying tends to somewhat ruin the game for the player in question....

[Mellon]

This isn't necessarily a bad thing, though, especially not in the early stages. Dying tends to somewhat ruin the game for the player in question....

This.

You should strive to keep the characters alive for as long as is reasonably possible. Stupid deeds need appropriate reactions of course, but every character should be able to tell "their story" and influence the plot in some way at the very least.

If we are talking about Web-RPs.

[SeiKeo]

Heck, I'd even go as far to say, the only way player death should happen is if the player does something truly stupid to deserve it. (doesn't apply to some kinds of RPs OFC)

[Tobias]

iunno....I can understand a certain amount of leeway given, particularly at the beginning, but I think the threat of real character death improves the game because it forces you to RP as if your character actually had a normal fear of death.

[Mellon]

Heck, I'd even go as far to say, the only way player death should happen is if the player does something truly stupid to deserve it. (doesn't apply to some kinds of RPs OFC)

I dont know about that... knowledge that "you will survive anyway" tends to dull the edge of RPs in my opinion.

Death should be a possibility (albeit a relatively distant one). Especially towards the end, when the stakes are rising.

EDIT: Ninja'd by Tobias.

[Tobias]

hey, 10000 posts.

[SeiKeo]

Fair enough, I suppose.