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That’s where I am, too. If the fight’s not supposed to be challenging, or the scene is not important…skip it! If the scene or fight are...

One group's "better rules" is another group's "worse rules". Hence, do "no rules" when you can get away with it. "What's the correct...

That's the problem though. They did. You're busily complaining about them lol.

I just don't really see them as completely different games. Different games, yes. Not completely different games. Like, Tears of the...

Exactly. As the core assumptions of D&D have changed from classic to trad to neotrad over the decades, the assumed relationship between...

They still aren't strong. This doesn't really have anything to do with the rules. This is about the principle that the GM has carte...

I'm saying your bog-standard GM should be able to extrapolate from the high-level tropes of a race to determine a workable set of...

Pretty much every edition of D&D has been quite bad and/or deeply inconsistent at this. 3E arguably least, because it used the...

It isn't like there isn't ANY info, AFAIK, the new books have a section on species. And it isn't like the 5e14 books aren't still...

No. What's the problem? If I need an elf NPC in my game, I add one. If it needs stats, I make up stats that feel elfy.

If your group doesn't already know the default tropes and identities of a race, then there really isn't any need to portray them...

Oh, I don't know. Could be the endless complaints about adding in a cook to a kitchen. 🤷 Or maybe the endless complaints about...

There are one of two possibilities for paying far more than market value: 1) They really want the house for historical reasons. 2) They...

No idea. What defines D&D conventions (and D&D-like games) is transmitted by media exposure and cultural osmosis from various tables...

I think it's a pretty core premise for modern-day D&D that PCs are not some representative sample drawn randomly from a generated pool...