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Counter anecdote time. I was playing in a D&D campaign about the same time, and the DM was using Keep on the Borderlands as a base. No...

Wasn’t there a thread here recently (or maybe early in this one?) where various DMs were complaining vociferously about the idea of...

"Hyper-vigilance"? Who said anything about that? This is the point I keep trying to make. It's not hypervigilance or even just taking...

I would also point out that 99.99% of the time, the difficulty of climbing something in D&D isn't anywhere near climbing something like...

Never minding that there are a number of systems out there where combat and out of combat resolution use the same mechanics with equal...

That's precisely the point. I was asked what it would look like from the player's perspective, so I answered from the player's...

But, again, that's the point. The difference between good and bad here isn't apparent. From the player's side, they both look exactly...

Yeah, it's probably fair to say having the core two or three people I mentioned as requisite all in the one city on a long term basis...

Oh, I totally get that. As I said, I spent a lot of years moving pretty constantly and I work in a field where everyone else is pretty...

Sigh. It would help SO much if you'd stop making this personal. I have repeatedly stated that I'm running an Out of the Abyss 5e game...

See, but the Bad DM knows that the players will not like railroading, so, he covers his railroading by saying that the guard is a member...

It's not a question of playing RPG's with strangers particularly though. I've been gaming for forty years. I've lived in a lot of...

No one is telling you to stop making rules. Old School is one design and play philosophy among many. This is just not true. You would...

Because it's being used as an explanation when it doesn't actually have any explanatory power. "Why did you buy Bellcamp's soup instead...

This is a good point. @hawkeyefan, it occurs to me that I should add to my previous response to you that, if I'm going to err in the...