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Because collaborating with someone who has final authority teaches a different lesson. A lack of GM likely just results in whoever is...

I don't know how many times at work we were told there was no manager, no project leader. But before too long there always was a de...

An increasingly selfish society that cannot work towards the common good by interacting with each other in good faith?

Interesting. What is this social contract you speak of?? I was under the impression that oppressive DMs were zip-tying people to dining...

It's not. I've seen no evidence for that other than influencers insisting that it's the next big thing.

That is definitely a thing sometimes in some games.

The group can't kick out other players. They can tell the DM that unless the problem player is removed that they'll leave but otherwise...

Well that makes no sense at all!? You mean you knew a player who didn't have his or the party's best interests at heart? As if they were...

Are you sure you aren't just vehemently opposed to conceding any ground? I guess we just aren't able to communicate, because I thought I...

You have as much evidence that DMs are good at that as you do that they are bad at that, which is to say pretty much none. Our...

One of the reasons I started DMing was so that I didn't have to put up with a bad DM. Which was unfortunate honestly, I think the DM...

I'm actually not a huge fan of in-combat healing anyway. I really don't care for the "whack-a-mole" effect it often engenders.

It's true that I only run homebrew campaigns. I've never run a published adventure straight, just use them as fodder for my setting.

Stealth has been important at every level least occasionally in every version of the game that I've played. The rules for a hide check...

I normally assume that if we are at the point of talking about rules problems that the possible approximations have been considered and...