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That's the issue with a lot of people on YouTube (and other social media)... the ones that do it for the job, career, and monetization rather than just doing it because they think it's fun are invariably the ones that are least happy about doing it... and as a result the audience can sense that...

I think it's more like it's illustrating the importance that being unable to see what other people are talking about online because you deliberately skip over all the additional posts people have made to illuminate their ideas makes that person's reactive comments much less useful or worth...

No, I do not care. DMs can do what they want however they want to. If it turns out that I don't like what they do, then I can choose not to play.

In each of these cases, we're only talking about one single difference between torchlight and darkvision-- distance. With darkvision (or whatever ability in other non-D&D games have that allow characters to "see in the dark")... you mention noticing doors, monsters that are out of range, and...

I know, right? :) The reasons for getting into fights and the results that come out of having fought have always been more interesting to me that the actual process of conducting a fight. Whether that's tabletop or video game. Especially in video games when most of the fights are there just...

The shorter the lore, the most space available for game mechanics, which I think is what a lot of players seem to care more about. They're happy to make up their own stories and don't want anyone to put more of that unnecessary lore stuff in their way... but they need the game designers to give...

Do you mean for Skyrim? For that game in particular the questlines just were never that compelling to me. But that's not the game's fault, it's just what I find fun. Skyrim (and indeed all the Elder Scrolls games) are always more geared to the "You can do anything and go anywhere" mindset and...

My only issue with DA:O is that it was being designed and made at the same time the first Mass Effect was, and thus BioWare had not yet realized just how good "fully-voiced" characterization was going to be. And thus despite being released two years after the fully-voiced Shepard in Mass...

I believe @Henadic Theologian would prefer that we asked how many Empyreans can dance on the head of a pin, according the the thread they made further down page 1. ;)

It would make sense to conflate BG3 with Skyrim, because I have had a hard time wanting to go further with either of them. LOL! I much prefer narrative-focused RPGs and could take-or-leave most combat. Usually when I play any of these games I set the combat level to it's easiest setting...

And how does any of that have an impact on the mechanics of Dungeons & Dragons dungeon-crawling? Yes, I agree in the "real world" a force with night vision goggles has an advantage over a force that does not. But we are referencing D&D and the mechanics therein. What is gained by a party...

You speak as though it isn't possible to get actual quality conversation in a chamber where everyone actually likes the topic being discussed. I think that is not at all correct. Because questions, answers and ideas can be given and answered actually meaningfully, without also having to...

Yeah, but that's because not many people are actually looking at / using products from the indie-sphere and the ones that are are there specifically because they want to be there. Whereas we have hundreds of thousands more people in the D&D-sphere-- many of whom don't even play D&D anymore but...

Lore is there to be ignored. If it turns out you actually want to use it, great! But otherwise... you're going to be making up your own world's lore anyway, so ignore the lore the book puts in and install your own. It's not that big a deal. This is just one more place in Dungeons & Dragons...

As most pseudo-medieval campaign settings that have been designed and written for all the different versions of D&D include none of these things-- thereby giving us absolutely no explanation as to why these settings with the capability of 9th level magic have never been able to advance past...

Well, in order to discuss this claim, I would need to you to tell me of a dungeon crawl game that uses "darkvision" (IE PCs that can see in the dark) but also makes resource management of light source an important aspect of the mechanics. Because that would not be modern Dungeons & Dragons in...

There are very few tomes where a person is going to like every single thing that appears in it. There is always something that a person would have preferred it being different. But it should never be a surprise.

I agree that none of these high-powered mages would do things just to be helpful and for the betterment of society... but rather they would do it to make lots and lots of money. But that's the thing... other than a little bit in Eberron involving the dragonmarked houses... we never even see...

Yes, people can do whatever they want with their world building. That will not stop me from believing that their choices which keep them stuck in medieval times after 10,000 years of Fabrication, Teleport, and True Resurrection is just silly. But they can do them.

The game rules and the worlds that these game rules are meant to be used within are not one and the same. The people within these worlds do not live via the game rules. Even dungeon masters who make and place things within these worlds do not use game rules for everything, they just use their...