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So, with respect, I don't find the phrasing to be unalloyed in that approach, as already noted. That getting messaging perfect is hard...

I personallly don't find it all that challenging, except in those rare instances where I have to manage problematic players who are...

The 4e DMG has an extensive section about player personality types and ways the GM can help keep folks engaged, and also problem...

With respect, your personal experiences are not data, and should not be treated as such to counter arguments. A major problem we have...

Conversely, I've had exactly the same experience as Hussar, despite being significantly younger and living in a different country. GMs...

Perhaps that's so. I can say that at least one cover led me aright, though, simply because it had an outright dragon-ish person, and...

None. As in I've never played an open ended campaign like that.

My stance on that will always be that I won't yuck someone else's yum, but if there are other things that would excite them just as...

None of the poll options quite express my opinion on the matter, which is that I really like the idea of wild magic, but I pretty much...

I dislike wild magic, but if someone else in the group loves it, I won't speak that dislike aloud. I find it generally tedious...

So, in a word: No. We are not responsible for marketing gaming the way you see fit. You do not get to lay that burden on others.

Then unless-and-until you give up some of the design assumptions that go into D&D, you will always run into the "overboard" problem...

Of these, math is the only one I fully disagree with, and that mostly because math allows at very best only a very small degree of...

They seem to be true, subject to individual variance.

Three reasons, one already mentioned: adults are overwhelmingly more likely to be the target audience of the ads that inspired you. The...