Comments on: Happy Jacks RPG Podcast Season 02 Episode 08 http://www.happyjacks.org/?p=494 pursuing the RPG hobby with reckless abandon Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:34:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Flemming http://www.happyjacks.org/?p=494&cpage=1#comment-664 Flemming Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:51:19 +0000 http://www.happyjacks.org/?p=494#comment-664 A very wise conclusion, Thomas! :) A very wise conclusion, Thomas! :)

]]> By: Thomas Painter http://www.happyjacks.org/?p=494&cpage=1#comment-650 Thomas Painter Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:43:01 +0000 http://www.happyjacks.org/?p=494#comment-650 Hey, if a player told me they want to tie a giant's shoelaces together, I wouldn't go ask a book if I had permission to let them, I'd just think to myself, "Actually, I was totally imagining this giant with sandles. I mean, shoelaces would have to be anchor chains from the titanic, which you would have no way of dragging much less tying together... but I like where you're going with this.", but what I actually say is, "You do it. He fails flat on his face and *WHOOF*... he gets the wind knocked out of him. ...which blows you off your feet. While you're in the air you think, "Maybe I should have thought this trough a bit longer." Then you land on your ass. You take 1 point of damage to your tailbone and won't be able to sit for two days. ...and you're sitting right next to a giant eyeball which is looking right at you. Run for your life." Rolls do not matter, rules do not matter, any book which tells me how I MUST do things MUST be torn apart and thrown in the garbage; the only thing that matters is... What do my players want and how do I have fun giving it to them? :) Hey, if a player told me they want to tie a giant’s shoelaces together, I wouldn’t go ask a book if I had permission to let them, I’d just think to myself, “Actually, I was totally imagining this giant with sandles. I mean, shoelaces would have to be anchor chains from the titanic, which you would have no way of dragging much less tying together… but I like where you’re going with this.”, but what I actually say is, “You do it. He fails flat on his face and *WHOOF*… he gets the wind knocked out of him. …which blows you off your feet. While you’re in the air you think, “Maybe I should have thought this trough a bit longer.” Then you land on your ass. You take 1 point of damage to your tailbone and won’t be able to sit for two days. …and you’re sitting right next to a giant eyeball which is looking right at you. Run for your life.” Rolls do not matter, rules do not matter, any book which tells me how I MUST do things MUST be torn apart and thrown in the garbage; the only thing that matters is…

What do my players want and how do I have fun giving it to them? :)

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