Home (not house) rules you use when hosting

[garhkal]

[Telsij]

Since I lived in a different borough than the other players in my longest running RPG group, I rarely hosted, BUT when I did, I requested only that:

- Shoes were off in the house.

- Whenever appropriate, we feature a "cutaway" to the Sullustan character of a friend who had left our RPG group, though this character eventually re-appeared as a recurring NPC -- and a traitor! Because we each rotated in a turn as GM after every complete adventure, we wound up incorporating a cutaway to this character fairly often (at least once per adverture, though not every session). After a while it became comedy relief, in part because the friend of ours whose PC this had been wasn't the best actor, let's say. And so, the Sullstan always wound up with terrible line readings, as befitting his established persona. For example, his heel turn was announced with an overly dramatic and especially obvious/corny, "You though I was your friend... but you were WRONG!!!"

[Dredwulf60]

[kalamaro]

when i mastering a game, i need coffe ; smoking is not allowed but players can may ask a stop for both when is a non combat situation

[Naaman]

Metagaming is hard to control...

Ive always had an excellent memory, for example, so my characters have "benefited" from knowledge that THEY acquired, but that I retained over the course of weeks or months of play, whereas other charcters who received the same knowledge did not get that "benefit," evin if the character should have reasonably remembered.

I dont generally worry about metagaming simply because I allow for the assumption that the characters have "off camera" time to collaborate, preplan, train or otherwise discuss possible eventualities, and the "metagaming" is merely a " flashback or memory/cutscene in the ongoing story.

In some cases, of course, this isnt apllicable, and I will enforce the no-metagaming rule.

[Wajeb Deb Kaadeb]

My rule, no matter what RPG I play, is: Everyone shows up or we don't play.

I put a lot of work into games in between sessions. It is disrespectful to all of us to commit to a date and then blow it off because you found something better to do or had to wash the dishes.

I think the least a player can do is show up when he commits.

[garhkal]

[Naaman]

Any kind, really. A cunning enough player can even disguose his metagaming as a series of apparently "random" guesses, all the while the player knows exactly what whants to achieve (using his personal knowledge), but is simply roleplaying as though the character is ignorant and just "stumbling upon" the right choices.

The player, for example could use his perspnal lnowledge of a ship's layout to "find" the nearest escape pod simply by "randomly" choosing a door, going through it and asking the GM to draw the what he sees, then "randomly" selecting the next correct door etc, etc, until he "discovers" the escape pods.

For players chiming in, yes: that can be attributed to a flashback/memory of some off-camera planning, training together, etc. In some case, not possible, of course and so metagaming not allowed.

As for players knowing where their buddy is, orthat he is in trouble, depending on the circumstances of how the characters were separated, I could go either way. Is it possible/likely that they could have had some off camera time to set up a check-in schedule or a regroup/rally point set up and the one character missed his check in or failed to make the appointed meeting? Etc, etc...

[Dredwulf60]

[evilnerf]

I run a lot of online games. If I say your name twice, and you do not respond, you are officially delaying your action.

I have had players who have a problem with this.
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[Wajeb Deb Kaadeb]

[garhkal]