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Unfortunately the opposite has become true, going off of one of the previous comments in this thread. Players bludgeon DMs into...

Entitlement much? PCs always had cool powers and abilities built into the base classes/kits//PrCs/etc. I was talking about how the old...

You didn't need to. You brought up three issues from several editions ago that 5e designed hard against for all GMs and attributed them...

Jerk DMs are jerk DMs regardless of the era or edition. It doesn’t mean any DM wanting to make the game more challenging for the players...

I made the realization while going through my photos over Christmas break that I purchased my set of all three 2024 core D&D rulebooks...

The spell slot idea is indeed a fine one! I've toyed with the idea of bringing back energy drain in the form of draining feature uses...

So new campaign is using dead magic and wild magic. So far they've encountered 2 "shadow storms" which are essentially mobile wild magic...

I really like the spell-draining idea. Yoink! :)

Folks bragging about being a killer DM (whether they actually were or not) felt a lot more common throughout my gaming experience of the...

Power scaling isn’t broken either.

Which can be made to work, as Chaosium has done. Their BRP system has fewer fiddly bits, though, so fewer points of friction.

I think I’m there too, mostly.

The community is also built off of decades of normal people being the DM and providing fair and fun play. Ultimately what we are...

I think you are trying to redefine what is being discussed. Adversarial is not a play style. You are describing old school dungeon...

I don't have any comments about how much you saw it. I dispute that hobby-wide it was common in the past but not now. There are people...