| Cool: | Winning a Gold Wyrm. |
| Not Cool: | Winning a yellow worm. |
| Cool: | Sparkling dice. |
| Not Cool: | Exploding dice. |
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Cool: | Describing the spray of blood when your party's fighter kills an
orc. |
| Not Cool: | Throwing a balloon filled with pigs blood at the player whose fighter just killed your favourite orc. |
| Cool: | A well-drawn picture of your PC with his sword drawn. |
| Not Cool: | A picture of you at a convention in an ill fitting costume with a cheap replica sword drawn. |
| Cool: | A CD with sound effects to create atmosphere. |
| Not Cool: | A CD with a laugh track that you play whenever something bad happens to the PCs. |
| Cool: | When your Dwarf PC beats an Ogre in a bare-knuckles boxing match. |
| Not Cool: | When an Ogre uses your Dwarf PC as a club in a wrestling match. |
| Cool: | Loaning a newbie player some of your favourite dice. |
| Not Cool: | Making players put the dice in their mouth and spit them out to roll it and calling it a "dice pool". |
| Cool: | Putting an inventive new game on the internet for free. |
| Not Cool: | Making that game essentially 1ED D&D while just changing all the major terms into pig latin.
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| Cool: | Designing adventures on-the-fly. |
| Not Cool: | Having adventures with your fly open. |
| Cool: | A good GM screen. |
| Not Cool: | A ten foot high GM Screen with a tiny gate upon which the players must knock and say the secret password for you to open.
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| Cool: | Cheapass Games. |
| Not Cool: | Dumbass gamers. |
| Cool: | A glowing review by Dragon magazine. |
| Not Cool: | Your financial records under review in the dungeons of the IRS. |
| Cool: | Having a spirit familiar. |
| Not Cool: | Having your spirit familiar exorcised. |
| Cool: | Having your house rules turned into an official supplement. |
| Not Cool: | Having your house rules stolen by an official supplement. |
| Cool: | Proudly lending your GM your prize pair of gold plate d100s. |
| Not Cool: | Your GM using your gold plate 2d100 for a damage roll against you. |
| Cool: | Valiantly slaying the dragon, saving the princess and earning 1000's of XP. |
| Not Cool: | Valiantly slaying the princess, saving the dragon and earning 1000's of hate mails. |
| Cool: | Introducing a new player by having the existing PC's valiantly
rescue the new character from the enemy. |
| Not Nool: | Introducing a new player by having them sit on their hands
while the existing PC's discreetly avoid contact with the enemy. |
| Cool: | Buying magic speed powder from the travelling gnome magician. |
| Not Nool: | Buying magic speed powder from the shifty guy outside your local pub. |
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