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So does Storm King's Thunder, with that flow chart of the adventure that carries the story forward while deliberately skipping some chapters (unless the group playing wants to go around and do all the branches - but that's no different than a group playing through Tales of the Yawning Portal as...

The travel activity rules show that Passive Perception is not quite "always on".

I didn't claim "equally different". Things I did claim: Tales from the Yawning Portal is a "something for everyone" styled product. That claim was explicit. Someone being interested in one adventure, but not the others, is not necessarily an indication that books of an approach other than...

The adventure compilation book in question is literally a "something for everyone" book (that's why it includes adventures with a variety of styles, advice on fitting them into numerous campaign settings, and also has word-count dedicated to using the book as a long-form campaign instead of just...

It is deliberate design that spells of a particular level generally out-perform lower-level spells cast with a higher-level spell slot of the same level. There are a few intentional exceptions (fireball and lightning bolt are better than other spells on purpose), and a few accidental exceptions...

Fixed that for you.

It's not the "according to your logic..." bit I was being "dramatic" about - it's the other part. The part where you misrepresent or misapply what my logic was for the second time, which made it look deliberate.

You didn't initially add that important clause that the campaign was ending earlier than intended. However, moving the goal post like you've done still doesn't make your two stated reasons the only possible reasons. For example, a campaign could end for reasons entirely unrelated to the...

Those are not the only possible reasons for campaigns to only last half a year. Also, your implication that anyone that runs a campaign that is only six months long isn't a "good DM" is insulting and ridiculous - a story is not inherently better just because it has more words in it, and a...

Thank you, Elfcrusher, for clarifying for me what it is that I think and what my reasoning is - I thought I knew since, well, it is mine after all, but it certainly is nice of you to come and tell me what I think. You can go ahead and keep having both sides of the discussion all to yourself...

Your humorous jab doesn't make sense. The topic of the thread is "how much do you trust the advice of others?" and us amateur guitarists are engaging in a conversation about why a particular common thing that accompanies the advice of others, the statement of their experience in exceptionally...

Actually, my logic translated to Toyota would be that they shouldn't greatly expand the number of different models of car they currently offer. No. What I am actually assuming is that, given WotC reports the current model is doing well for them and that they've chosen it over methods more...

It's a vestigial remnant of outmoded DM attitudes that game rules details need to be withheld and/or obscured from players because of having no trust that players can make appropriate choices of character actions even if they can see all of the mechanics in play, included as a comfort to those...

The definition that you just selected doesn't even support your own stated cut off point. Every 4th Thursday, once a season, or even once each year are all "regular" and can be "continuous", and thus are entirely no less fitting to be excluded from your provided definition of "on an off" than...

I have only a few pointed comments to make at the moment as I am short of time. The first, that passive perception is not "I'm not trying to notice things around me". It is "I'm constantly trying to notice things around me." The mechanical representation of "I'm not trying to notice things...

If they did that, they'd either have to be less successful as a business by having significantly higher costs without significantly higher income (by hiring enough people to perform at the current pace and level of quality, but not raising sales by the same factor because people would still be...

I'm not saying I'm not - I'm just saying no proof of my skill-level with guitar has been provided, and as such, you are assuming without evidence that you are not as good as I am. You've fallen into the trap that people using "I've done this for years" as if it bolsters the quality of their...

Bag up that opinion and sell it to agriculturalists. There are ways to reduce disappointment, frustration, and loss of new hobbyists that aren't also potential causes of disappointment, frustration, and loss of new hobbyists themselves. And yeah, we've disagreed in the past... but don't you...

That is in direct conflict with the game's definition of what a passive check is. What the game rules say is that 'Active' indicates that the player is rolling a die, and 'Passive' indicates that no die is rolled and the result of the check is calculated as if a 10 were rolled - but regardless...

Yes it would. Telling people the barrier to entry is bigger than they think it is - and they should be thinking anyone literate enough to read the book can pick up the game and get playing it, even if their role during play is the DM, because that is what the current barrier to entry actually...