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I've had mediocre DMs that homebrewed and mediocre DMs that ran using published settings. What made them mediocre was not the homebrew...

I picked one simple metric because it was easy to calculate. In my scenario B is also better at everything outside of combat as well...

Player B will hit more often and do more damage when they do hit. They do double the damage of A. They have 40 more HP at 8th and it's...

No. I detest published settings like FR. There are so many powerful NPCs around, why would a D&D party ever feel special? I cannot run...

So if no player in any group I've ever DMed a home group for adamantly insists on playing a tortle, I'm okay? What if they want to play...

Probably not. I have the same experience here in Palm Beach county Florida and don't think it's any "exceptionally good" gming given...

Like there isn't a lot of uninteresting stuff in FR or any other published setting? I pay attention to my players whether it's homebrew...

I would add, that you need a setting to have a game at all. Yes, that Settimg can be improvised at the table without prep, or planned im...

I think I mentioned a while back not pursuing a Gothic horror arc because one player said they didn't care for it. Not hatred, not a...

No more important, and yet still important. Taking a vote and forcing one player (the DM) to agree or be deemed unreasonable is one...

Maybe it's because I live in Los Angeles, but most of those I've played with have enjoyed the setting lore.

is the DM’s ‘I do not like tortles in my game’ as good a reason as the player’s ‘I would like to play a tortle’? I guess that is where...

You are looking too hard to find compromise by insisting that the only people who have consistently talked about working with players...

The language is that way because the "problems" being offered up will very rarely come from friends. They come from new players. My...

Nobody is saying that you couldn't put something in Eberron. The Keith Baker quote, though, means that something isn't automatically in...