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Well, I was sort of using you as a guinea pig here. The system I proposed...is Healing Surges from 4e. Separate pools, where you refill the main, usable pool from the second, hard-to-access, hard-to-refill pool that doesn't directly protect you from death. Surges vs HP is functionally a Wounds...

As someone who has never been particularly fond of the things I've heard about Gygax... Yeah, a lot of this just makes me sad, not really all that angry. It sounds like his past sufferings (poverty, religious concerns, wanting to break free of his constraints, etc.), coupled with his inability...

"I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want...

They almost surely are not.

You cannot give consent to something you literally don't know and aren't allowed to know.

This "Vitality" pool would also only come back slowly. I wouldn't do 1/week myself because I consider that overwhelmingly punitive, but different groups could certainly go for varying rates at which they're recovered. No HP healing, or at least none of any meaningful/repeatable source, could be...

Every time I try to engage with people by taking their things seriously, they do exactly this to me, AND jump to extreme positions. It's been going on for years on here now. Consider asking @Maxperson about whether the DM has "absolute authority" or not. I did literally everything I could to get...

I mean, literally the dozens and dozens of times people spoke of the DM pre-writing the setting so that it must necessarily be independent of the PCs and the players? Like I figured that was literally the intent was that there wasn't and couldn't be "consent" from the players about that. To...

I was expecting an answer that involved rules. But whatever. I'm tired of participating in this so-called "discussion".

Exactly. It's a Fighter with a light smattering of offensive/utility magic. It doesn't really achieve the thing folks who loved the 4e Swordmage or the PF1e Magus are looking for.

It's not faux shock. I am genuinely getting really really frustrated at what seems like constantly shifting goalposts and "definitions" that last for a hundred posts and then get upended when it's no longer convenient to stick to them.

What if you flip the script on this, though? What if your hit points really are just the hit points you normally list, and then separately you have, say, a limited pool, call it "Vitality", from which you can draw to restore your hit points proper? Limited both in how fast and how much. Would...

I am intensely curious to know what rules are required for how the group should imagine things. Particularly from someone with old-school sensibilities such as yourself. One: "By mutual consent" isn't enough for a sandbox. I thought this, too, was already established. If all you need is mutual...

Action taken by the DM. I had thought "PCs railraoding" was understood to be a contradiction in terms. Not at all. I am specifically talking about the "independent" "objective" world prepared by the GM--just one prepared so thoroughly, so exactingly, that there is one, and only one, "logical"...

Then you use a definition of railroading I neither understand nor accept. I had thought we were quite clear at this point that "railroading" means any action, whatever that action might be, which forces a particular outcome to occur within the fictional space. By your lights, a DM who wrote a...

An unfortunately common response that to this day I fundamentally don't understand. What is your reason for drawing this conclusion? I don't see the connection. Completely unrelated. I can be enjoying the events at the table, and also separately bored with the mechanical expression of my...

I did not say that. I am calling out the fact that you refer to this, consistently, as though it were in any way a defense against railroading. I am specifically saying, that argument isn't true. Just because it isn't a defense against railroading doesn't mean it causes railroading. That's a...

Technically not the same thing as I was talking about, though that part too is something I see very rarely. Specifically, I was saying that I've never seen a 5e DM (or, indeed, all that many DMs in general) who let the players pick what level the campaign starts Numerous DMs, both in games I...

Oh, you certainly won't hear arguments from me on that front. I believe 5e is missing somewhere between five and twelve class-fantasy archetypes. Some of them are shared with 4e; some with PF1e; one isn't even from D&D, but rather a thing influenced by D&D (specifically, Final Fantasy).

Perhaps it is the minimal sleep I got, but I have generally decided to check out of this conversation. It isn't going anywhere. But I wanted to respond at least to this. This, right here, is again using this "decisions <that are> based on established fiction" as a shield against railroading...