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If I'm gaming with friends then I guess I don't have to worry about the GM abusing their power that is given to them by default in D&D...

To me the purpose of rules is to represent fiction. If any rule can represent any fiction, then there is really no reason to have...

You asserted that every caster who can have the spell does. They obviously do not. From my experience I'd be surprised if even a...

They go back to a series of articles Gary Gygax published in a Diplomacy fanzine called Thangorodrim in 1969 and 1970. Gygax seems to...

In group activities of all sorts that I've participated in - whether work or leisure - it works the same. Unless there's some kind of...

It was true for every game I played. YMMV.

Stealth has been important at every level least occasionally in every version of the game that I've played. The rules for a hide check...

Hence, the discussion. If the houserule isn't working, you talk and work out a better one.

I normally assume that if we are at the point of talking about rules problems that the possible approximations have been considered and...

No way! It's better to mischaracterize everyone's positions in extremes. More fun that way.

And IME I may or may not have seen it once. Between multiple home games, game days, conventions I've likely played with significantly...

It is cooperative. But since the DM is the one providing the campaign they can choose who to share it with. And Alignment doesn't...

Why is so binary and extreme? A DM can be the the one making the final decision while still running a cooperative game. No tyranny in sight.

I don't know how many times at work we were told there was no manager, no project leader. But before too long there always was a de...

I don't remember anyone ever preparing absorb elements even after playing with many different groups. So I'm with you, in my experience...