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It wasn't empowerment for any gms. Empowerment would have been guidance and advice on how those gms you reference in the bolded bit...

What stakes? Conan is invincible. No you don’t, because they are not dealing with the local realm in combat situations, they are...

As you can see from just these posts, let alone the broad range of people who play D&D, that there is no "generally accepted definition"...

Well, I don't think that was quite explained in the original descriptions of the setting types. With those you seemed much more hung up...

Yup! I really thought A5E would fix it too. Nope. I think someone said they made it a little worse 🥲 but I haven't compared them. I'd...

I still cannot believe they didn't rewrite Find Traps after ten years of it not finding traps.

No. It is not "dm empowerment" to loot the gm's toolbox just because it's done while someone says that it's for your own good. I...

While I agree with most of that, it's 5e design choices that derail it not the local focus that details things. it's entirely possible...

Sword and Sorcery Rant: IMHO, Sword and Sorcery is about the protagonist dealing with personal and local wins and losses which can be...

I realize and acknowledge Moorcock's contributions to the sword and sorcery literature genre. But TTRPGs are not novels, as many on here...

That's all true I suppose, the tone didnt seem so whatever people want to call post Tashas however originally. It just felt like D&D.

Gandalf is a freaking maiar. The beings so powerful they literally participated in creating middle earth into existence

Where sword and sorcery is moreorless Conan or subversively the antihero Elric, the general idea is, this is the human world that...

Ne even early 5e still had pretty solid overlap with that part of the venn diagram. A lot of the reason for that inescapable fact...

While I agree & think there is probably some level of validity to that theory, there might be an alternate & more charitable...