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In D&D? Generally. . . yes. Many class options are built around weapon qualities such that you only ever use one weapon, unless the DM takes it from you, and that's usually viewed as punishment because it nerfs the build.

It 100% is to a lot of people. I know folks don't agree on a fixed definition of "crunchy", but I don't have a dog in that fight (per above, my take isn't about "what's crunchy" but "what are you getting for your crunch") and I'm not making this up. You have a right to your own take, fine, but...

Again, I think this comes down to people not quite understanding the complaint they're making, conflating complexity with tedium. In America, which has a very strong anti-math and anti-intellectual instant gratification culture, the Oregon Trail series is entirely about provision management and...

I never understood this take. Even the one-side-of-one-page Lasers & Feelings has multiple lookup tables, and is a bit much for me to memorize in one go. I'm no one's idea of a smart person, but I'm struggling to visualize a system that meets this standard that isn't just a coin-flipping contest.

My experience with dungeon delving in D&D boils down to surprise at the extent to which 5E wants as little as possible to do with it. Since folks brought up 1E/2E, to me the biggest functional difference in earlier editions isn't simplicity; it's the absence of rituals. For example, if you're...

Yeah, just what sort of time commitment is demanded of players, especially if no one's getting said player involved? A DM, sure, but what's there for a player to do all week, outside of sessions?

I mean. . . yeah. Last campaign my barbarian grappled a baddie, and then moved the baddie back. . . right out a window and off the top of a tower. I figured with rage-induced resistance he'd survive the fall, and he did. The group regularly polymorphs characters into dinosaurs. It was fun...

I like to use TTRPGs to tell stories, and I think there's something to be said for realistic violence in the context of a serious story. I'd go there, with the right system. BUUUUT D&D to me is far too weird, anachronistic, and over-the-top to take seriously, so I visualize most of the...

As a matter of stylistic preference, I kind of make it a point that real people can't. That you need to be heroic to survive. That said, I do think it's (darkly) amusing that many fans of games, shows, and movies don't realize how incredibly deadly humans are. The Monster Manual is full of...

Oh my gosh, that's amazing. I think this is so hilariously stupid AND YET I can see this being incredibly effective. I'd like to first hope that this group isn't that far gone though. Based on what OP said, I feel like they deserve a shot at maturity.

OK, thank you for the clarification. I guess (I can only guess, not being there) it's two things then. One, this sounds like a very botched "Session Zero", where expectations and character compatibility were not properly discussed. That's unfortunate but fixable, if the DM is willing to...

It just sounds like this is one of those male(ness)-dominated tables that maintain order through aggression. I don't know if that's because they're jerks or just too caught up in their own habits. If you don't mind my asking, and you don't need to answer, how are you treated otherwise? Do you...

I suppose I'm weird and dumb but the vibe I got from what little I've watched of CR is that I can't possibly imagine what they'd script. Probably the weirdest thing to me is, despite being VAs by trade, they're typical gamers almost to a fault. I kind of expected VAs to have more...

"I got to do nothing." Context: D&D5, I failed three early saves and ate two levels of exhaustion plus a fear effect, which put my PC out of commission.

Humans.

I embraced joy once. It was awful. Never again.

That's understandable, but there's a flip side to this. I'd like to role-play social situations, but I have a social disability. I can't bluff or persuade any more than I can shoot fireballs from my fingertips. But I'll happily play a charismatic wizard on paper, because RPGs are all about...

Well then.

In general, I would think if you play a system and your resulting thought is, "I specifically want to do things that are not covered by these rules," odds are you are looking at a shoddy pile of rules, or at least, it's not the game you're looking for. Easier solution is, find a system that...