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Well, that hit the second page. I give it four more before it gets locked judging from the participants.

Because, if the players attempt anything, there must be the following: 1. A chance of failure. You must NEVER allow the players to just do something. Unless, of course, they use magic. Which, in that case, automatic success is fine. 2. A significant amount of time spent at the table using...

Yeah. Only "occasionally" seems to mean "every single time, because the DM is going to manipulate the math until the every action is an exercise in punishment. Good grief, I've climbed out of more than a few ravines. I've never broken any bones. I've never suffered more than a skinned knee...

I have absolutely no dog in this race. I'm really going to enjoy this.

Not a meme exactly, but, absolutely my favorite take on the "save teh kitties" meme:

Oh this is going to go well.

If numerous people tell you that they cannot understand what you are writing, perhaps you are communicating as clearly as you think you are.

Perhaps phrasing it as "linear" rather than sandbox might make it clearer? Then again, most of the WOtC AP's have been pretty linear.

Dude, you are most certainly not alone here.

As someone who is very much in your second group I can point to exactly why with your ravine example. Firstly, I’ve smelled the roses fifteen times before and they’ve smelled the same every time. Maybe just once we can skip them? Secondly, I know exactly how that ravine example will play out...

The OP is 5e - talks about downtime activities after all. But, again, just to be clear here, because there's a lot of drift going on, my issue here is that the DM has this massive tome of spells, refuses to allow the players access to it, even after they encounter the spell in game. The only...

All very interesting. Not sure how it applies to a 5th Edition DnD discussion. But sure?

Again, none of that is true in 5e DnD though. I’m not talking about my, your or anyone else’s game. I’m talking about what the game says. And the game precludes clerics from researching spells. In fact, afaik, no edition of the game had rules for cleric spell research. Wizard? Yup. 2e had some...

Again, this is fine. I’m certainly don’t want people to think I’m hardline about RAW. I’m not. I use all sorts of non-standard stuff. No problem. But let me turn it around. Player asks you to see your spells. Even if he can’t use them, he just wants to see them. Maybe to draw inspiration...

I gotta admit, this is a totally new one to me. The idea that spells are somehow part of world building? Okay, sure. Doesn't explain why my divine characters don't have access. Also, since the only caster that actually writes anything down is a Wizard, I guess all your new spells are wizard...

Presuming of course you can actually succeed. If that lock is just that difficult (to pull a completely random example out of the air) that your bonus will not let you succeed, then Take 20 simply tells the player that, nope, they can't do this. Again, 5e has largely folded this into the game...

Whoops, didn't notice the thread count. Haven't read the thread yet, but, this seems like good news. Now I have 10 more pages to see just how bad this is for the hobby.

And I'm saying that the constant stream of vitriol and negativity has resulted in me caring less and less about issues because there can be no nuance or discussion. And even issues that do get resolved are still dragged forward as baggage to beat anyone around the head and shoulders who happens...

You’re right. It wasn’t unreasonable. The Dm screwed up, didn’t account for what the characters could do, and instead of throwing up roadblocks, lets them succeed.

You skipped the part where I totally agree that no dm would ever allow it. Of course they wouldn’t. But the players asking to look at your massive time of homebrew spells is apparently an example of bad players.