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agreed. I would say for the game as a whole taking any temporary stance won't effect the game much.....unless you take an extreme...

Neither. The average Benevolent (I would say Buddy) DM will freely admit they never or almost never kill PCs or do any real...

I think this mixes too much. 1. The DMs that treat foes as just nothing NPC game tokens and the Immersive DM that treats all NPC as...

D&D is full of them. Once you get past low level lots of foes have powerful attacks and abilities. 5E super nerfed most of them, but...

The Undermountian books from 2E had this sort of thing as Ed does like "crazy random dungeons". And it has a lot of his old Dragon...

No they don't. There is nothing about "benevolent" that means you must make things a Challenge. What a benevolent GM must do, is what...

There is a crazy line here though. The "benevolent" GM does not and can not do things like "play to there best ability" or "make things...

And Cheep! A lot of books were in the $9-$12 range, and that was the SMP. You could find them on sale easy enough. Bookstores either...

Yes. No. This is way too complex for 5E.

Nearly everything is controversial in some circles. The big thing to do is preparation. Controversial as many DMs just like to make...

Yes. There is a lot of society and economics mixed in here. It was cheep enough to make, distribute, market and sell most RPG books...

I Love low stats. I love characters that make sense: having stats that match the role play. As a role player, I love to play all sorts...

I only run what I really, really like. And up front I will lay out a large number of generic system-less house rules. If players don't...

I'm a tyrant DM that plays several groups a week and I force the games to move forward at a blazing fast pace. If you want to play a...

What? This seems like such a limited view point. To say X always equals Y is just not good game play, story telling or really anything...