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Thank you.

I can relate to that.

When we are out walking, son 1 and son 2 tend to play "Fantasy-game".

The problem is, they usually spend so much time bargaining about what elemental superpowers their characters have, they run out of time to get to the actual playing. I tried to explain to them that giving a character a handicap instead takes much more creativity and much less discussion up front. They haven't tried that so far.

I have fond memories of an RPG session where the only thing my character posessed was a wooden bucket and no magic powers whatsoever. As for the bucket, you can turn it over to sit on it, you can use it as a very blunt weapon or a helmet and you can store stuff in it... (not all at once though)

That's great thinking!

There's one guy online who actually watched every single episode of the long-running gothic soap opera Dark Shadows ( A5169648 ) and blogged about it. I don't know what his brain was like afterwards...

He noticed something about the successful characters: he said they had to make a friend, and help the story in some way.