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The Pathfinder 2E and D&D 5E rules might not be great for mounts, but it doesn't deter me. I wanna see my halfling player wreak havoc while riding his bear so yeah, of course I'm gonna make that more rad than the vanilla rules. My players don't get all jealous, though. They'd all think that PC...

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Hook up with people in Discord groups. They do one-offs together all the time. If you DM some of those sessions, you'll find lots of opportunities to try different modes of play, styles of DMing, and get in enough repetition to learn what kind of DM you want to be. Why Discord? It's super...

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That sounds incredible right up until the point where I realize I'm too lazy to learn sign language. Shucks...

No, because then it would be a written rule. You have to figure it out by playing charades.

Every quarter is like a year, so much can change when it comes to who makes up the market and what they want, so 2024 may as well be 8-12 years away. From that perspective it doesn't sound like a good idea to have super definite ideas about and be planning for something "8 years" away, essentially.

Oh it's alright we're all human here. It's almost physically impossible to find something more arrogant than any one given human. My homemade hamburgers are better than yours. There. I said it. I'm an arrogant lout, I know.

In my experience there is no such thing as a "railroad game" or "sandbox game". Railroading and sandboxing, when viewed without any negative connotations, are modes of play that a DM can switch between while running the same game. One session might present the players more options while the next...

When one government commits a crime against another, is it lawful? There's no referee to adjudicate, so the aggressor can say "well my laws aren't being broken so of course I'm being lawful". If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Some societies place the individual above the group. "The law" itself, and whatever a PC deems to be "lawful actions" and "lawful thinking" may be arbitrarily different from one another.

Had to answer that I use both definitions equally, but what I really think is that there isn't a true answer to the question either way. It just depends on who you ask, what their answer is. "Law", "justice", inside fiction or outside fiction in the real world, they're merely concepts which...

You see, you're saying here that the play must differ quite a bit, but that's not necessarily true at all. A DM can say "okay I'll give my players NPCs that are easier to interact with" and then his scenario sets up a different outcome, even with vanilla rules.

You're not establishing why exactly it is that "if the outcome isn't exactly the same as it would have been given the vanilla rules, that means there's been a departure from really playing 5E", or defending that notion in light of how incredibly narrow it appears. So narrow that it's going to...

Of course there's a difference in play. One used the rules and the other just plain didn't use rules and was "whatever we decide is fun RP happens". It is false your claim that "just winging it" actually describes how I handled the encounter in my own original example.

What I really think is that there being "some difference", as we both agree there is some distance, doesn't necessarily mean that the resolution was a clear departure from the rules. It wasn't the kind of example where the DM would say "this isn't applicable to me because I use these rules and...

I don't see what's so terribly complicated about it being the case that: some rules came into play, some didn't, and the lack of this or that rule coming into play, or a homebrew rule coming into play, didn't somehow determine the resolution all by it's lonesome. Other 5E mechanics, e.g. ability...

Nah I'm sure you look good frock on or frock off, and we don't mind you playing dress up. Frock off all you like.

Lol those are some self righteous sounding Celestials. "Yargh those dang Aasimar, if only they were as inherently beatific and wise as us, why can't they make more right decisions like we nearly omnipotent, omniscient super beings do? It's not so hard."