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Sure. If the DM is a self centered jerk, then I do not play. I can count very few times in 30+ years where that has happened.

all that shows is that builds are now more complex, the 1e video of this would have been 5 seconds of someone saying ‘obviously play a mage’

CR is not perfect, but it is a better measure of relative monster strength than not having anything at all (other than the stats...

Some of us, including those who played from OD&D on, never cared much for high lethality games. That is vastly different from demanding...

I prefer someone make the final call. I think it makes for a better game rather than the loudest player at the table shouting until they...

What justifies your "good reason" to play a draconian other than you want to? How could a DM justify not allowing draconians other than...

That's perfectly fine, you have your preferences. But the DM preferences are just as important, correct? If they're not going to have...

you can obviously disagree on the particular case, but the point is that people can disagree about how reasonable something is, so the...

Yeah, I think that from a player's perspective as well, if one player is looking to subvert the expectations of a game from the way it...

3pp I think Kobold Press, Cubicle 7, or others creating 5e material, material similar to what WotC releases at a similar price point for...

at that price point, I’ll probably skip it. If some homebrew $5 product uses AI images because otherwise there would be no art at all...

I'm not sure if I'd call it "player skill" so much as "anticipating Gary's gotcha ideas." I think most groups for most RPGs figure out...

Yeah, when I've waded through the various retroclones and OSR games, I've been looking for my Goldilocks version of 2e but always coming...

For me it always comes back to the random harlot table. No other edition of D&D has offered me the opportunity to run into a wealthy...

Judging by the letters section of Dragon magazine, I can only imagine what an internet forum would look like if it existed back in the...