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100% this! Luckily, at least in the online AL communities I'm active in, this is a very common attitude. In fact, I can't remember the...

Veteran players should be supporting and helping new DMs as much as possible. We should remember that we were all newbies once.

I sincerely doubt it's a WOTC product, it's a product licensing the D&D brand.

So there isn't a better system and because I think the current system works fine for me ... anything else is completely unacceptable? I...

The whole point of abstraction is to not sweat the small stuff. But as I've asked many times before, what type of system would you want...

Oftentimes the rules don't need to tell us that because their writers can safely assume we already know it: it's simple variance in...

Are there indications that any of it is AI generated?

In 3e I had a chart for how much to power attack based on the target's AC because you could subtract from the attack bonus and add that...

I’m in disbelief that I’m even having to point out that a d&d persuasion check involving an established cleric that can cast remove...

But not to decide what that information is. No. The character decides that they try to persuade the cleric to cast the spell, and they...

It's not hard to understand. People just don't like it.

The assigned role of the DM though is to run a campaign fairly and to have fun. He has no "in world" objectives. It is why he...

Also why I bristle when someone suggests that the rest of the game should be structured more like the combat, wanting some tactical...

They did though. And so does the GM in almost every RPG. No, that's called collaborative storytelling. It might be playing RPGs as...

If the player really isn’t authoring the runes meaning, why wasn’t this pointed out from the begginning? That’s been a huge part of the...