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We had the session 0 for my Monday night group tonight. We landed on a setting where the PCs will be part of a "second wave" of...

Yes, you totally could, and we actually did. The great thing about AD&D 2E in fact was that it provided an entire line of historical...

You can play Doom on a TI-83 graphing calculator. That doesn't make it a gaming console nor the best way to experience Doom. But humans...

I always go by the belief "The DM can make any setting they want with any kind of race, class, or spell restrictions. But the DM...

My problem is that D&D was never as modular as people thought it was (it's nearly impossible to change the magic system without...

Which to me is like changing the rules to Axis and Allies because all you have is a Clue board.

I'm criticizing both. I'm just saying that it's easier for a DM to adjust boring clones to new roles then it is to fix broken...

"AC and hp and saving throws -- grounded, simulationist, I feel connected to the game world, I love it." "Guard has 18 STR instead of...

I mean, yeah. There is no point to playing any game you don't like. I wouldn't play Edge of the Empire if WEG d6 is my favorite Star...

Personally I don’t find silvery barbs problematic. I see it in the same light as heroic inspiration and legendary resistances. It’s...

Or maybe the quotes are just meant in fun? I just can’t see D&D designers having actual antagonism towards DM’s. They know DMs are...

You can’t really punish a DM by giving players options in D&D because every toy they get the DM gets as well. I think there are a lot...

I definitely agree that in the earlier editions D&D was more of a toolkit. The rules were all over the place and not very unified. Ie...

For me not rolling as DM also helps get out of the GM vs players feel and more towards we are just telling a story/having fun together...

I am this guy. Though I did read the DMG, multiple times. In my book, streamlining this kind of things is 100 % beneficial to the game...