Seems like a pretty good guiding principle, unless you’re the kind of self-serving muppet who skims philosophy texts to find reasons why it’s ethically okay to behave like a selfish dick.

The Death Star is a weapon you can live in. It’s an important consideration.

Maybe I don’t want it faster and cleaner…

Then I choose the pistol (given the name Rimpoche by an AI Bhudda) from Redrobe by Jon Courtenay Grimwood. It provides target identification, auto-aim and sarcasm.

One of the Lazy Guns from Against A Dark Background by Iain M. Banks. Point at target. Pull trigger. Target is destroyed in some ridiculous way, like having a piano fall on it.

But don’t point it at the sun. It doesn’t like that.

I’ll take some garlic knots, thanks. Next time’s on me.

Especially if they use it to ask for steak well done.

“The DM hated me”…

There’s playing a quirky character, and then there’s refusing to engage with the premise of the game and spoiling the fun for everyone else. Hope this guy read the room carefully before pulling this stunt.

I know a vegan who has ex-battery hens as pets. She’s against taking eggs away from them because it may cause distress, but often they’ll lay an egg wherever they happen to be, and walk away. Those ones are fair game because the chickens have abandoned them, and they need to be collected before they rot in any case.

Imagine Brian Brown as Gandalf.

Some non-coffee people get so smug about not drinking coffee. We wish they’d put something in their mouths other than their opinions about coffee. But normal non-coffee people? I honestly wouldn’t even notice what you ordered.

You might also be interested in E6 rules. With those, character don’t progress beyond level 6, but continue to gain feats at a faster rate.

No need to guess - it’s Shadowrun, chummer.

I’ve been dropping hints to a friend that Wildsea is his kind of game to run.

FATAL is the game where you, the player, may die during character generation.

I’ve been heard to say, from time to time, that apologies only count if you also stop doing the thing you’re sorry about.

this completes a loop that should have been built in the 90’s

To be fair, living in Auckland, it feels like they started building it in the 90’s.

We didn’t fix it, we just stopped making it worse. It’s still the reason you don’t step outside in the summertime in New Zealand without sunscreen.

Another 300 years and it should be right as rain, though.