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And remember that smart people aren't any more rational than average or dumb people. They're just better at rationalizing their irrationality.

Sometimes I think I'm missing out not seeing all these bans. But a voice in my head says I'm probably not missing anything I want to see.

I've run Curse of Strahd, Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Dragon Heist, Princes of the Apocalypse (early TPK), Storm King's Thunder. I haven't really liked any of them enough to put them in a top 3. In my opinion Mad Mage and Storm King are okay, Strahd is bad, and Dragon Heist/Apocalypse are...

I find that the only organization I need are the ones I need for my current game, and the rest.

Are your players capable of keeping tracking of their wealth precisely? Then they can keep track of their weight precisely.

Hear me out: what's the first thing you think of when you hear Ravenloft in Space? Well, obviously, it's Pigs in Space. So change it to Baconloft in Space. Then you have the obvious system: Toon.

Damn, don't be subtle about it or anything.

Freed hobgoblin, found pirate booty

Whoosh

Yeah, yeah. They said that 20 years ago, and I bet they'll be saying it 20 years from now.

Thank you for proving there is a martial/caster imbalance. The two most popular classes in this thread are wizards and bards, both full casters.

Fine, straight European fantasy, or whatever you want to call it. Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, all of those. It's been done to death.

Whatever it is, it can't be straight medieval fantasy. There's tons of those settings already, and whatever D&D will be, it will fit easily into those settings. We need something new. Some have mentioned non-Western mythologies as a base, and that would be one way to do it. One thing I would...

I think this is the heart of the problem: I just have a bunch of casual players. I think what I am going to do is treat them as other player types based on small deviations I've noticed from the casual player type. I'll let that ride for a while and then have an intermission session to make sure...

What kills me are the people who are getting divorced so that no one can go after their spouse for their medical debt after they die.

Rogadin and Eldritch Rogue

Combats are not a big thing. They're really just four casual players, except one guy who is a little bit of an optimizer. I don't have any real butt kickers or tacticians. When some time frees up I'm working on another campaign for a new group, but I don't want to just dump these guys. They're...

The feeling was that it was a play style difference and we then started the Dungeon of the Mad Mage campaign. And things haven't really gotten any better. They'll search when something is really suspicious, but not otherwise. I am frequently cluing them in to bits they forgot (like you've been...

I did.

The thread about the player who loves evil characters reminded me of my problem players. I've been playing with them since I got back into D&D at the start of the pandemic. But they are oblivious. The first thing we did was go through the Yawning Portal adventures in a home brew world I threw...