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Here here! Huzzah! Me too 100%. The care I know I put into it and the genuine desire I have for everyone at the table to have fun and...

My rule of thumb when I DM is to ask myself "would I want to play under me if I was a player?" I find that focus guides me out of a lot...

Whether intentionally or not, this take shows a strong bias: that it's OK to add more species but not OK to remove some of what's...

It depends, too, on one's definition of 'awful' and how high one sets the bar. Some might think a DM is awful just because she...

Agreed. If I had to run or play just published adventures and settings I would leave active play.

I agree but that also holds true for D&D in my opinion. It's not a bad thing to acknowledge that if you don't like a game there are...

Guidance is handy but it just adds 1d4 to a check. Not sure what it replaces a rogues jack of all trades thing.

Only if there's a time constraint, in my experience. Otherwise, you try the free resource (rogue skill check) first. Also, sometimes...

If you don't like what the DM is doing and can't convince them otherwise or compromise without spoiling your fun you should find a...

I had a chance to look at https://www.enworld.org/threads/in-your-experience-how-good-are-gms.293390/*. All I can say is that I get...

I'm looking at this from a team perspective, what can the caster do that is so much of an improvement over a rogue that the trade-off of...

That hasn't been my experience, can you give examples? There are some things magic can do (and if you want a magic using rogue the...

In addition, the reason they can step on the rogue's toes generally only comes into play if there is no rogue. If there is one, it...

Surely this is dependent on party composition. Other classes can step on the rogue's toes depending on the build, but it's not...

I think very few people actually sit down and do the theory-crafting white-room analysis to say that "These classes are best". I know I...