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Shadowhowler wrote:

I wouldn't say your making your players any smarter by this practice. At BEST, you would improve their grammer. At worst, you make a lot of people ****** off due to your annoying need to nitpick their grammer.

Grammar, actually. :D

And, to be fair, IQ tests take into account your grasp of grammar, so it actually does, by literal definition, make them smarter.

Shadowhowler wrote:

Heh.

I guess it depends on your defenition of 'smarter'. I've seen some pretty dumb people claim fairly impressive results on IQ tests. My own IQ test was well above avarge, and I know my spelling and GRAMMAR are horrible.

I've always felt IQ tests where a poor representation for how smart someone actualy is. How that person lives their life and solves problems, what they know and how well they can reason, those seem to me better examples of a persons intelect.

Meh.

Dude, I'm a psych student, don't get me started on the validity of IQ tests. AGH. I just meant, by a definition of smart that validates what is generally considered to be smart by the academic community and dictionaries, I'm making them smarter. But I'm with you. IQ tests are also so freakin' Western-oriented. Good luck accurately gauging the IQ of a community in the steppes of Uzbekistan! Anyway, before I go on a rant, I'll just say, IQ tests suck.

SokenzanMarauder wrote:

IQ tests don't necessarily measure your intellect. They measure your ability to learn. You could, for example, have an IQ of 140 and still be about as 'street-smart' as a rock.

But yeah, they're still pretty worthless as a whole.

Actually they measure how good you are at taking IQ tests, and not much more.


Not in my DnD (if I can help it):
- Metagaming
- Characters without purpose/goals (getting rich is a goal, but only if the RP it properly)
- Characters with no background
- People who think DnD is a ROLEplaying game and not a ROLLplaying game.
- Uninterested players
- WoW talk (but they do it anyway, over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. WHO GIVES A DAMN **** ABOUT HOW MUCH GOLD YOU NEED TO GET YOUR DAMN FLYING EPIC MOUNT?!)
- Snack/store break (why can't the damn players get their snacks before the session?)

The Ubbergeek wrote:

Forced definitions of fantasy that removes things like Psionic, ToB, etc from possible options.

Well, a it's one of the fundamental jobs of a GM to craft the definition of fantasy of his game world. The current world I'm developing doesn't use psionics. Why? I don't like them in fantasy. Don't like it? Don't play my game. When others allow psionics in their game, or disallow other things, I don't whine about it. Why? They have taken the time to exclude/include the flavors they want to maintain the internal integrity of their worlds.

One thing I HATE in my D&D is the non-chalant way people view PrCs like it's just another class but with prereqs. Guess what? Just because you have achieved a list of prereqs to get the PrC you want for your build doesn't mean that it even exists in my world. It's hard to blame the players entirely, though. The way that PrCs are presented makes it difficult to run them the right way without looking like a jerk. Monte Cook wrote an excellent article on the subject some time ago, too bad I lost the link because I'd love to read it again.