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Given that, fundamentally, it is designed to be a violence game, having at least some enemies be readily identifiable as inescapably...

I guess I can accept that. I just know that if tomorrow, scientists announced they had empirical proof that there is an afterlife, but...

i assume it's that fallacy of belief where people vote for something assuming they'll be one of the ones on top and living the high life...

I guess my tastes are a little more sophisticated then simply fighting bandits and gobos for money. The motivations behind the bandits...

I bet @dave2008 and @Micah Sweet could move that Hasbro discussion someplace else with the mere click of a few buttons.

That is changing the goal post a bit. You said previously: "...since they're always chasing what they think the most potential customers...

5e was advertised as having options that are modular. Maybe I'm over speaking but what you're witnessing, I believe, is much of that. I...

I think my words may have made it unclear. Nearly all 5e games I've played have started at level 1. With the exception of Hussar's...

Well, indeed, I would say this use of "sacred cow" in a dismissive "that's juat silly!" way is precisely what went wrong with 4E...

I think folks often look at alignment from a straight jacket perspective. As in, if you have X/Y on the sheet then only X/Y approved...

The very 3.x rules regarding some spells and alignment the OP mentions is something I miss and wrote back into my 5e homebrew rules...

I think as a shorthand for an NPC’s personality or view of the world, it was a useful tool. It was much less useful and active source of...

I have to admit I find your D&D experience bizarre. And to be clear I'm not blaming you, it is just not what I would expect - even with...

Level 1 or 2 for most, level 3 for one. Other than with Hussar's group, I have never seen a 5e game that started out at level 1 and...