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I agree with this. I enjoy GMing, or playing, a RPG session - generally I enjoy it a lot! And a significant part of my enjoyment is...

Maybe not "wrong", per se. But maybe needed some practice? It is a skill like every other player skill - it takes some time to master...

I can’t deny your feeling and experience, but I don’t understand this based on the way the game is supposed to be run afaik. When the...

Which, ironically, meant that 4e was the only edition of the game it was easy to remove the treadmill from. 4e gave answers, oD&D/1e...

It is far easier to adjust your pacing in an improvised game, and not all module writers know how to pace things. So I'd expect the...

Games are supposed to tell you what way to play. If you didn’t want to change the way you were playing, why would you need different rules?

Charisma the score, yes. Charisma classes, no. Charisma classes are overboosted to make up for the lack of strength in Charisma.

Honestly? "We're working on updating your favorite class, but it's taking awhile" is... completely fine by me. Page count and man-hours...

I wonder what percentage of folks do that, as opposed to sticking with D&D forever or just leaving the hobby altogether.

I thin k that is because D&D (especially 5E 2024) is trying to be too many things at once. It is a tactical turn based combat game, but...

Yes magic items was a slider.. But in 4 of the 5 editions, it was also tied to the power of the game. And ingrained, in a helm, many of...

It's funny, but I have been watching a ton of Actual Plays for weeks now, and I have yet to be able to observe any difference in the...

I enjoy DH’s exception based design, even if you need to kinda tell the player what it means in the moment. It lets you stay fiction -...

To me it is perfectly clear that what is happing in any RPG play is story creation. This goes for trad games where players merely...

So are all the other games I listed. But no two groups (no two players) are quite the same.