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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Sure, there are people who prefer boring games, who prefer TPKs, who prefer Orcs SAing PCs... Whatever, sure.
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    You're seeing a lot of crap that's not there, when I'm offering a simple way to measure. There are different measures of "bad"...there's no conflating. But no...everything's subjective, less than 3% of DMs are bad, bad players are worse than bad DMs somehow...whatever. I am going to ask...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    So just using the examples provided before, I guess being boring isn't bad; rejoicing in unfair TPKs isn't bad; having orcs r**e the PCs isn't bad... Whatever, man.
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    It's a thought construct designed to help see if one's behaviour needs to change or not. If you can't see that, there's nothing for us to talk about.
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    " I don't like running games for evil characters and I have players that don't want it either." So that's a table decision, not a behaviour in-game or something else.
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    It's not that subjective. If the DM engages in behaviour that would drive a player to another game that is exactly the same except it doesn't have said behaviour, then it's bad. Not "evil person"-bad, but bad in that the behaviour needs to change.
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Maybe "bad" means something other than "abusive or controlling."
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    What the hell are you talking about? Agree with me re: what? Did I set that binary you mention?
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Perhaps not the same type of bad...but they're all bad in their own way.
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    I guess because some people here think fewer than 3 out of every 100 DMs are bad...if one can't see they might be bad, they are less likely to try to improve.
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    One needs a certain amount of self-reflective ability and modesty to look back and see one's faults...whether looking back 20 years or just last week. Like you, I was a bad DM back in high school, no doubts. Was fun still had? Most times, but that was in spite of my bad DMing. Of course many...
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    Maybe you can have one chart. The examples given are all examples of being bad at DMing; they might each have a different value (the last would have a greater negative value than the first...maybe), but they would all contribute to a negative experience.
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    D&D General Why do people like Alignment?

    Yeah, I should have been more clear; I meant 1e-3e.
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    D&D General Why do people like Alignment?

    I feel like a lot of this has to do with the populace being...not great...with on-the-fly math. It doesn't even require bad faith. Instinctively, it feels like such a maneuver (the chandelier thing) should draw some kind of penalty, right? So then a penalty is assigned...and because we're not...
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    D&D General Why do people like Alignment?

    Forgive me if this has already been addressed. How many people, specifically as players, like the old-school alignment system? (Just checking to see if the player role vs DM role makes a difference here).
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