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Do you have any items, regardless of edition, that the rules treat as being pretty minor, but you've seen them prove their worth time...

Sure, but how much of the D&D Barbarian is actually Conan? Conan's "rage" is almost nothing like how D&D rage is portrayed. It's...

Still wish 5e hadn't deleted the Endurance skill from 4e. Because that skill would be perfect for addressing several of these issues...

Perhaps some written stuff in advance? Maybe in the lead-up to the adventure starting, RP through doing investigations, collecting...

This is good, for moments when action is expected and details are best discovered rather than laid out. I do think there's still room...

i'd rather rely on social skill checks with a chance of players zero effort roll-playing than straight up ignore what characters are...

If you have proof that it is essentially ignorable, I'd love to see it. Otherwise, requests for "proof" are irrelevant, time-wasting...

Because that's how the words read to me. Things like... It seemed quite clear to me that this proposal was "This is what D&D should...

Why must martials characters suffer beatings with the "realism" stick?

My problem here is that what most people refer to as "optimization" is seeking to exploit enemy weaknesses--or, more often, to create...

Pre-written adventure paths certainly do this, yes. But so does making the GM the absolute arbiter of absolutely everything. Telling...

All I can say, then, is that it is self-evident that (a) this is a practice, and (b) this practice is fairly widespread, even if it is...

Why is gaming facing an actual problem? From time to time various individual RPGers, or RPG groups, fact actual problems: namely, GM...

Seems to me that this is an agenda. Now, we can't just be making a point about approaches and their flaws. We have to be identifying a...

Really cool and cinematic...for some people. For me, I very much prefer signature weapons that the user develops a bond with, and then...