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In a situation where you're defining a 15th level character as a first string athlete, a 1st level character as a child, and adventuring as playing a professional sport, then yes, it doesn't make any sense. But not everyone playing D&D is going to be playing the game like that.

There's also the Cartographer's Guild which is a great resource for finding maps that other people have made, finding people who might be interested in making a map for you, and learning how to make your own maps.

Oof, that makes things more challenging...

If you're not against (maybe) trying something new, and having to do a quick read-thru of a rule book, my one-shot advice almost always boils down to the same handful of suggestions. Dread - Horror RPG where instead of rolling dice, people pull blocks from a Jenga tower. Juggernaut - A game...

As Lowkey said, neither one of you is "bad" for liking different things. As is often pointed out on these boards, it's like asking which one of you is "wrong" for liking different flavors of ice cream. I do think it's funny because you usually hear complaints of video games' influence on RPGs...

My son played in his first RPG when he was maybe five. It wasn't really any recognizable system beyond the names of the standard D&D attributes. Aside from that, everything was just assigned a die, and the higher the number you rolled, the better you were at it. A weakling might have a...

A 12 year old might be able to grasp most of it, but as for the 9 year old, it would really, really depend on the kid. I've always thought that in games like D&D, at the bare bones level, having an understanding of the rules and the system weren't necessary to play. As long as the person...

Although I absolutely love Mouse Guard, I'd caution you against thinking it might be a good fit for kids. How old are they? If the extent of their abilities at this point is adding dice and playing make believe, I'd say play to what they're interested in and shoot for that instead. The...

The point is that you are saying that a DM shouldn't have a new player start a character off at a lower level because there is a chance that a new player might accidentally think that they are being sexist or racist. I am saying that that is as silly as being worried about them calling you a...

You are correct a new player might be afraid that they are being discriminated against. They might also be afraid that they are accidentally joining a Satanic cult. They might think that the other players are covert government agents trying to gain their confidence so that they can secretly...

The only thing that makes this about age, race, or sexual preference would be if the DM is deciding to give players less XP because of their age, race, or sexual preference. Since I don't see "o - Start them at first level because they are a woman!" as a choice in the poll, it's safe to say...

You who the what? Starting a character at a lower experience point total because that's where people have decided that new characters start has absolutely n o t h i n g to do with the player's gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual preference, hair color, or preferred breakfast cereal...

Was it that he chose not to, or was he just not experienced enough/trained to recognize the opportunity?

Other things Lanefan did not say: "Other players are not my equal." You keep on inventing imaginary baggage and forcing someone else to carry it. He said that in the games he runs, the setup is that every player has a stable of characters that start somewhere between the average level of the...

I've been looking for a die roller app on and off pretty much since I got my first smartphone. Over the years there have been a lot of things I liked, but never anything I bothered to use or even keep installed in case of emergencies. Last week, I think I found a winner...

I ran a 3.5 Eberron campaign where the characters were members of a Jugger team ala "Bood of Heroes."

Your first hand experiences with people who were not nice, who make bad decisions, and who were not able to communicate properly with the people they decided to be friends with does not mean that you should assume that Lanefan is not nice, makes bad decisions, and is not able to communicate...

No part of his story should have lead you to assume that a player was being forced, under duress, to do something they didn't want to do, or that he was deriving satisfaction from somebody else suffering. Beyond that, there are agreed upon rules of the game, campaign, and table. There's...

Ascribing negative connotations to somebody else's neutral actions makes for a bad discussion.

These are all style choices that aren't inherent truths to every type of game or campaign world. On top of that, bounded accuracy has absolutely nothing to do with a 3rd level character being equivalent to a 15th level character.