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I commend you on your incredible reading comprehension. My quote isn't about paying DM's anything resembling a salary at all, but supporting the DM because often DM's carry a much larger monetary burden than the players. What I mean by "supporting" (and I'm just elaborating since you...

Looks like your love of 5e is only eclipsed by your love of ellipsis.

My personal worst purchase was the 4e starter set. I'm honestly not even sure the 4e red box is objectively bad, but I remember opening it with my friend, thinking we'd finally start some real nerd D&D fun, only to be completely overwhelmed by the mechanics and rules. It wasn't what I imagined...

It's fine, you're a regular human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias

Sure, direct me to this exciting encyclopedia of goblin history, physiology and culture and I'll educate myself on this extremely important area.

What do you even mean. How are they different? Conceptually, artistically? They fulfill the same role in both games. It's like saying a high elf is super duper ultra different from a wood elf.

This seems extremely far-fetched to me. I feel like people want to ascribe more complexity and depth to tabletop RPGs than they really merit. A PF goblin and a D&D goblin aren't different. They're goblins. PF and D&D aren't significantly different. Chess is different, Monopoly is, but PF and...

Sounds good, but Cellar of Death is a lot more tough than anything in LMoP. It killed 3 of my ToA players!

Why are people constantly referring back to AL? Who cares about AL. This is a general discussion about paid DM'ing.

We are in complete agreement then! Carry on, friend

Zzz. It's not about "monetizing friendships", and if that was what you inferred then I can only roll my eyes in exasperation. I'd never ask my friends to pay what is essentially a salary, of course that notion is ridiculous to me, but if someone DM'ed a full campaign for me then you better...

Man, don't you see, this is exactly the problem. If you have a buddy willing to DM, why not support the poor guy now that he's investing so much time and money, and all you do is show up with your character on a sweat-stained sheet without knowing any of your own spells. That the DM enjoys...

I run games both at home and at my FLGS. My campaign is at my home, and one-shots at the FLGS. I always carry the PHB and MM. My campaign is Tomb of Annihilation, so obviously I have that book close. I rarely use the PHB during play. I carry a dice pouch, pen & paper, DM screen, chalk...

Says a lot about internet forums that you had to point out your own joke to avoid people getting upset. :p

There's no actual monetary difference between paying for a DMs snacks & drinks, and paying him/her $5. The first just carries different symbolic value, I'd say. Also, for many people finding DM's isn't easy at all. There's plenty of paid DM'ing going on online. People are always willing to pay...

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In my country, Denmark, boardgame cafés have become very popular. Typically people just pay a price to enter, and then they can use the room(s) to play the cafe's games or their own. I actually haven't heard of any AL here, so I don't think it exists. Some cafés organize D&D one-shots that are...

D&D is generally a pretty bad place to look for interesting moral ambiguity. Let D&D be D&D, and read good books (i.e. non-FR) for the meaningful narratives.

I'm running, reading and preparing ToA these days and having a blast. It's a great adventure, but I see absolutely no reason to include another mediocre superhero movie that people politicize to an extreme degree. There's so many of these movies out there, I have no idea how people keep up any...

There's really not enough data here to say anything of worth. It's pretty interesting reading general reactions to new publications though. I've only played 5e for one year, but it's obvious as a newcomer which books are generally well-regarded (such as Strahd and Tomb) and which ones to avoid.