Maybe he doesn't like pencil-necked powergamers and thinks they should stick to 4E where they belong?
Mod Note: Please read Morrus' post below. Thank you. ~Umbran
That's cool. I have a 2nd level half-ogre/tiefling who raised by leprechauns and a half-elemental drow ranger who was raised by demons and devils (adopted by a married demon-devil couple who later divorced. Dad was a demon and got him on weekends).
Could you point me in the direction of an actual play example of people playing D&D as a "story-driven boardgame" as you put it? I would be very curious to see what that looked like.
You couldn't, say, have the pet safely off the battlefield and signal it onto the battlefield once the coast was clear or almost clear with a whistle or somesuch?