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I would try to refrain from coaching. Let her learn her own style and let her make mistakes. Except if she explicitly asks for it. BUT...

I would ask her what she’s aiming for with some of the rule changes. Is it that she wants a dark, gritty game? Does she feel the tone of...

Sure, provided that meets with their goals of play.

It sounds like a DM who feels the players are having far too easy a time of it! Maybe it's the players who need to be spoken too, and...

It is a tough one. I think it's important to remember that everyone at the table should be enjoying the game. That's the GM and all the...

YMMV. I see no insurmountable problem with it.

Level Up has several statblock variations (see particularly the Monster Menagerie 2) that would allow the horde class fantasy.

Not really the issue at hand, though (and I don't really buy it anyway).

The Mage Hand Press Necromancer can have about as many active minions as the Diablo necromancer, particularly if you let its class...

Anything an NPC can do, a similar concept PC should also be able to do IMO. And vice versa.

I don't recall any version of D&D that had PC necromancers who could summon armies of undead. There were no PC necromancers in 1st...

Clerics were great ways to fit the necromancer concept back in the day, and I would certainly count that as a necromancer. Beyond that...

Yeah, it's better to start off with rules-lite systems, and gradually add stuff in, rather than dive in with something that is very...

In principle that may be true, but in practice they may not be familiar with or enjoy rules-light systems. The DM is going to run the...

Next week, I'll be flying down to San Diego for the memorial service for my friend, who also was a gamer, Wayne Sherman, who passed in...