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... This is, I think, an important distinction; as you say, I think I can feel confident that this behavior was widespread; whether...

I think people are arguing multiple things in the same thread. Whether such behavior happened. Here the burden is find an example, and...

The thing that gets me about this conversation is I remember literally being at a table at a Dundracon convention back in 1990 where a...

Its certainly true that not only was it easy to kill first and second level OD&D character, I think I'd argue it was sometimes hard not...

I've been open about at least two DMs I've known who I would categorize as adversarial. One was a long-time friend who was very...

It was also a rejection of The Hickman Revolution style of story focused play and embrace of The Dungeon as a duel of whits between DM...

I seem to recall several people complaining about killer/adversarial DMs. It happened to me in the 1980s and it lowkey happened to me...

Believe it or not, I'm sympathetic; I've had second thoughts about either whole or parts of posts in the past and went back and got rid...

Do "Seeing GMs brag about it" count? Does having sometimes leaned a bit in that direction yourself in your younger days count? If so...

I kind of consider that an element of my note 2, but point taken.

The only time I've seen what I thought was an ineffective PF2e character was people who actively avoided what the games tell you is...

Often its done for one of two purposes: 1. Prepaying for ancillery costs, such as when you actually want art that isn't something like...

Its not a coincidence that PF2e has made it much harder to do that sort of thing to yourself, even deliberately.

Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it, but it's balanced in that it offers equal opportunity to all players to have the same stats...

Its certainly true in some games that are actively designed for inter-player benefits. I can't speak for the current generations of D&D...