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My example is the players wanting to do something and the DM saying "nope". The exact same way the players do it to the DM with an...

CE. I live the life.

Right, there are non combat RPGs. So, why do people insist on making all combat characters in nearly all combat games, and then say "Oh...

I think when players think they should have ultimate freedom to do whatever they want in a game is bad. Just to show why it is...

The problem here is you have a powerful all combat person...like Superman, who then just does stuff that is not based on all powerful...

I find this to be the real problem. Most gamers are overloaded with "most media" and it's very, very, very soft depiction of...

Except the idea that something might happen in the fiction does not equal character death. I agree. But character death adds so many...

I like the Lore Heavy Setting I run games "back in time", before 1375DR, and ignore new dung. Forever. Lords of Darkness, The...

I agree. This is one of the Big Things that makes RPGs Unique. I find character death makes players care more about everything game...

A DM just being a DM is not Railroading. How can the "rules" matter when a DM can do anything? When a DM makes a monster or NPC they...

Odd, I never really put time skips as 'railroading'. And I don't hear many complaints about it. But all Time Skips can't be...

Even back in 1E, the spell said "contact your deity or agents thereof. It for sure said that in 2E. Also, 2E at least introduces the...

Except such a DM is just like a car with a flat tire: even if they have run hundreds of games they might be doing all sorts of 'bad'...

11. Here's an example of bad railroading I experienced back in the day. We were playing a game, a friend of a friend was the DM. We...

Are you sure? #4 does seem like an Everyone will Agree one... And really for most people, nothing is a life time stamp. For...