Recent content by dave2008

Thanks! Though I was more asking for @Maxperson as they mentioned their book didn't say what yours did on the pages referenced.

page 5, 6, and 76 of what book?

I'm not a FR guy, but these sound pretty awesome.

Absolutely, but that goes both ways. There is no reason to expect the DM to compromise all of the time either. I imagine the vast majority, if not all DMs, make compromises regularly. It is just a lot of the time the players don't even realize it.

You could play them in my D&D game.* Heck I had a player be a giant once. Not a half giant, but a full on giant! *Not all of my games are anything goes, but some are

So a strength score off 10 is OK?! Have racial bonus ever been greater than +2?

I think those are both bad assumptions.

My issue is you seem take a comment or viewpoint in a forum post and try to extrapolate everything about the DM. One comment on a D&D forum does not a DM make. Heck, must of my discussion on these forums has little to do with how I actually DM. This is a discussion not a table of players.

IDK, I have never experienced anything like that nor have I seen many DMs talk about their game worlds like that. I would guess you are taking a few extreme cases and extrapolating them to the majority of even many DMs. I just think the DM you generally present is a fantasy. I can only think of...

That is not true in how we run games. I am sure everyone does it differently, but at our session zero we decided what kind of game we want to play (setting, theme, etc.) and its broad parameters. Then the players go make characters based on that discussion and the DM works on the campaign world.

@EzekielRaiden, I am not sure what point you are trying to make to Scott, but I don't think it is cool to quote people out of context. For example, taking my quote out of context complete obfuscates the point I was trying to make in the exchange (that being absolutist on either side gets us...

Where else would would you cook up nasty dungeons!

Oh I realize that is likely the case, I was just trying to be funny.

I too like all of the optional, variant rules, and monster building guidelines cut from the 2024 DMG. On the other hand, I am pretty sure WotC has some data that suggest a lot of people didn't get much use out of them. Heck, I still encounter people that don't know those rules are in the 2014...

Yep, there is an issue with your table. It looks like you might have spent about $15,000 on D&D wrapping paper! I hope that last you a long time!