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What I've found over time is that the bad DMs and bad players often aren't the same people. I've seen bad players become good DMs and...

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Though there's been a few PC-invented spells over the years in my games, this hasn't been one of them. Kind of surprising, really, but...

For anything purporting or trying to be a big-tent game that covers lots of bases, yes. The more flexible a game system is, and the...

I agree it's on the DM to try and even out the influence level. Doing it all yourself and presenting it as a fait-accompli for post-hoc...

Story loss is at most a soft-loss condition, in that it doesn't mechanically affect the character's ability to do what it does nor does...

Yeah, that's bad DMing in more ways than one.

is a species not a packet of rules? so how is a new species not classified as new rules? that's like saying 'if i add a class entirely...

Sorting out what came with what level has been a headache since 3e; I see that, along with a lot of other character complexity added...

Fair enough. It's a bit much, though, to expect them both to work at once. :)

More common IME is where players have varying levels of opportunity to weigh in and-or the DM gives more weight to the opinions and...

Back around '81-'83 there was a group of 10-20 folks once a week playing in a game that a local comic/record/book/game store owner in...

Considering how many DMs I've had over the decades, there have only been a couple that I would consider "bad" along with a few that just...

Everyone remembers their bad GM experiences, but I don't make the mistake of assuming bad is the standard and we should change the rules...

I can't remember ever intentionally targeting spellbooks, but if they happen to be in the blast zone then so be it. :) That said...