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I'm curious who says that worldbuilding belongs exclusively to the players? Because I have literally never seen anyone say that the GM...

And the Stanford Prison Experiment is extremely relevant with respect to older versions of D&D because BT being TOLD to strip the class...

I am very over learning new high-crunch games generally. I'll make exceptions if it looks super cool, but mostly no thank you. I have...

And not every piece of guidance is equally good. One of my common critiques of D&D in general and both sandbox and adventure path play...

And D&D has had push factors since 1st edition (since the original creator was a classic jerk DM). A lot of the changes in 5e have been...

As I said, class fluff is suggestions, not rules, which is why so much of it is contradictory, and there are a great many different ways...

There was both power and a push in the setup of Stanford due to its setup and the closest thing we have to reproducing it (due to...

Doing encounter map/digital busywork.

Look at the Stanford Prison Experiment or the Milgram Experiment. No amount of rules restrictions will make a jerk into a non-jerk, but...

So we should thus roll out the red carpet and bend over backwards to help them be jerks, rather than lift a finger to do better? No...

That you keep bringing up how much the books empower the GM to be a jerk "if [they are] that kind of person" does not bespeak of such a...

The problem was the inclusion of skills at all.

And the players can (and should) walk away and find a new DM.

And you wonder why I take the view I take on your posts. Should do the respectful and positive thing, not have to--every GM always has...

It's been in the game for 23 years and three editions! That's almost half the game's existence! But it’s based on traditions that go...