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Simon Armitage’s poems aren’t that bad!

Maybe you are exceptionally good at making it interesting. I can only speak from my personal experience (and ability).

I don’t create settings. I think it’s detrimental to the roll of dungeon master, and largely a waste of time making stuff that players...

In my opinion, absolutely not. It’s not the DM’s game, it’s everyone’s game. The DM’s personal tastes are no more important than any...

I have a low opinion of the surveys and don't trust their results are particularly meaningful, but that's because I filled them out and...

The film is good, but genre mash up feels weird.

The plot makes complete sense, honestly, for a D&D movie. Two PCs come to China to steal the secret of black powder but end up in a...

The Gorge is the mutant offspring of a RomCom and Doom.

I agree that as a player, if you agree to a curated setting, you're being problematic if you later on try to renegotiate that curation...

Yep. The majority of players just aren't that interested in exploring someone else's creation as the focus of the game.

Which is the cause of a lot of problems. A lot of DMs are too precious about their creations, and don’t want those irritating players...

No GM is so brilliant that their idea can’t be improved by input from others.

I find it interesting that you respond to hypotheticals as attacks. much of this debate I've noticed is not framed as a social...

Saying “no” is the most difficult social skill to learn. People are conditioned from birth to go along with things. At one time my...

The one, and only, thing preventing any first-party D&D option from appearing in Eberron is because the GM personally decided they...