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Sure, their own feelings matter (to themselves, anyway), but they're irrelevant when identifying a game as "Dungeons and Dragons." The...

Not at all. Enough people still didn't like that iteration of D&D, so that the subsequent edition of D&D was different enough from that...

You’re picking a concept of game-running apart by relying on an absurdist and constructed example. We’ve said many times that people...

“Storygames” is terrible and doesn’t say anything and is implicitly dismissive in the way “hardcore gamers” derided video games like...

Well, yea! 5e IS wildly incoherent, that's why people fight about it all the time on this and many other sites. And I say that as...

You should probably play a game where a non-result is a valid result of a skill check. :)

It’s not charitable because it’s poor analysis to state your preferences as objective, as too many people are prone to do.

Give me a good reason why people should be unhappy while playing a game.

Why do you have "nothing happens" there as an option in the first place? Thinking back to the last few sessions I played in, I can't...

I'm pretty sure even if you livestreamed yourself doing absolutely nothing for six hours, someone, somewhere, would consider that a...

But all you can say is that it doesn't feel like D&D to you. That doesn't mean it isn't D&D. I am not a fan of 3e (except under...

And they do? 4e is D&D. Objectively, it is. This isn't my decision. It's the decision of the people who are legally entitled to make...

They don't get to declare universal truths either. Whether or not they feel like it is D&D, it is. Their feelings are irrelevant to the...

Right, exactly. And I think importantly, I don't know of any published games that actually attempt that willful incompatibility. Its...

Well. I can't say I come to the table with them. But they aren't just talking about their table. They're talking about the game's...