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Bah. Show the dice you aren't afraid! Dump your CON!

As for my personal reaction, it would depend on who I was playing with and what mindset I was in at the time. I could see myself...

Yeah really putting the 3 in CON is absolutely the smart play here if the DM won't allow you to re-roll it for some reason.

Well, at least you get to roll a new character up soon.

Yeah, as one of the old farts of the board, I can say in the '70's that really top-down GMing was treated like it was the expected way...

My experience is that nice (i.e. almost all) adult players will always act like a rising tide lifts all ships, but on close observation...

Yep. And yoru experience is fair. It just probably isn't universal. This, to my mind, is the actual point of game balance. In a...

I mentioned somewhere that our very first 5e campaign we used the heroic point buy from 3e for our stats and we decided it was a...

I did something not included in your list--it's the system I've been using in the 5e/ToV games I've been running for years. Pick your...

I have a heroic 4d6 system. Roll 4d6, drop lowest, then re-roll all ones until you have no more ones. This makes for a lowest level of...

Maybe he decided he would get more attention by going nutso.

Power-tripping DMs/GMs/Storytellers etc. are a real thing, and sometimes that power-tripping manifests as being a "killer DM"...

That you have to phrase it like that demonstrates that the stretch is definitely not on my part! Nor really yours! But on the blogger...

Yeah it's a shockingly shallow and rather unevidenced take from this blog. The idea that 5E14 was "internally consistent" but 5E24...

Honestly I kind of expected a more.... thoughtful take from a storied blog like this rather than knee jerk gloom and doom about how PCs...