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I absolutely love it. I kinda hate magic that always just works like technology. Press the button, get the effect. Anything to make...

I love it, only when it's truly wild and unpredictable - wild surges from an interrupted spell doing weird things, or broken magic items...

Which is why I prefer games with strong sim attitude towards play, because the moment in the middle of a game when I must suddenly rules...

I disagree with the premise that it doesn't matter. I think it matters on a few fronts. But each of those distills to one thing - the...

For some players, DMing in general is easy. For some players, DMing in general is hard. For some DMs, performing at a level they feel...

Part of the problem is that we're a diverse lot; and one DM's "mistake" might be another DM's "best practice", with both of them running...

Indeed, but giving them stats anyway allows for quick and easy comparison with characters. Simply saying Giants are tough and resilient...

I think the Pay DM thing also ties into the situation these days with people having, or feeling like they need to have, a side hustle in...

I am not sure why anyone thinks that the metric for being able to do a thing should be measured against perfection.

No, it isn't. It just takes practice. It takes being allowed to fail.

This touches on perhaps a key element: DMing isn't necessarily hard as in difficult to learn or do but aspects of it - mapping a setting...

When I started gaming back in the late 1980s, we didn't have anyone to compare ourselves against aside from the other people we gamed...

I wonder if it's more that existing players are less tolerant of new DMs. If everyone at the table is new, including the DM, then they...

@Reynard with great power comes great responsibility. Your last rant kicked off one of the biggest threads of the year, and now you...

Wow... you are demonstrating the problem of how the default invites players to poison the social dynamic and can't even discuss it...