A new topic for every poster seems excessive...

[StreamOfTheSky]

Hi, I'm StreamOfTheSky, or to one very special troll out there, The Stream Of The Sky.  I post with the same name on ENWorld and (until around when 4E came out) WotC's forums.  Also sporadically on gamefaqs and other sites...basically always this username.

I'm from Rhode Island, I play 3E and PF, the former being vastly preferred.  I'd like to play Arcana Evolved, Iron Heroes, and BESM some time, just haven't up to now.  I like optimization, but am very much a "RAI person" (yeah yeah, I know) and don't care about theoretical op at all.  On the other hand, I'm also a RAI person and hate strict RAW silliness, like "Improved Precise Shot and Seeking weapons just let you ignore the miss chance from concealment, they don't let you ignore concealment itself, so sorry your Rogue is screwed forever and always by Obscuring Mist and there's nothing you can do about it."

Enough ranting, no one's gonna read this anyway. 

[Prime32]

Enough ranting, no one's gonna read this anyway. 

*reads*

[Solo]

Greetings, The Stream of the Sky.

[weenog]

*reads*

I prefer RAW, I like to have common ground to work with, and solid ground to stand on if I make an unpopular decision.  RAI's fine if it works for you, I guess, and it's at least nice to see someone who doesn't interpret RAI as "Fuck the PCs, ESPECIALLY the PCs whose players know what they're doing."

[CrazyBS]

*reads*

[Agita]

I see everything. It's what lurkers do.

[Bearchucks]

Well well.  I agree it does seem rather inefficient.  Not when you could have an intro thing for everybody.

[phaedrusxy]

Well well.  I agree it does seem rather inefficient.  Not when you could have an intro thing for everybody.

I also agree, which is why I just hijacked someone else's intro thread instead of making my own. 

[StreamOfTheSky]

I prefer RAW, I like to have common ground to work with, and solid ground to stand on if I make an unpopular decision.  RAI's fine if it works for you, I guess, and it's at least nice to see someone who doesn't interpret RAI as "Fuck the PCs, ESPECIALLY the PCs whose players know what they're doing."

No, I'm definitely not of the mindset to "fuck the PCs," that's one of the major reasons I'm hesitant to ever go try out older editions of D&D, that seems to be the "old school mindset."  I do very much adhere to the "no sane DM would ever allow that" outlook, though.