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Yeah, I never had the gut issue - I started at the 5 mg dose and just kept it at that.

This. We never felt it was particularly difficult except we were more likely to make a mistake calculating the AC than we were while adding, particularly when you’re trying to go quickly around the table (AD&D had lots more players often). Most of the time, repetition replaced the actual math...

You could take it or leave it, but you also take umbrage that someone makes a joke about it.

I can get this - I love Leiber but his writing can be challenging and won't be to everyone's tastes. And I totally agree on Last Action Hero. That movie is a gem and people were just not prepared for Schwarzenegger to appear in an action comedy at the time. He was just coming off of T2 and...

Even if it’s unenforceable legally, it’s a bit of fun that is largely harmless and allows a raconteur like Ed Greenwood to continue being a spokesman for the game.

First, it’s very forward even on a game forum to suggest to someone that they’re playing a game incorrectly and that you have the right answer due to experience when no one asked for the advice. There’s probably a half dozen Simpsons memes that can be deployed here: “No, it’s the children who...

Really. Then I go back to the argument that WotC is not making a product for the vanishingly small number of players who are seeking inspiration from a book from 1908 or the maybe ever so slightly larger group whose orcs are inspired directly from Beowulf. Again, these are players who have in...

Couldn’t have said it better.

Disparaged because WotC is trying to be inclusive, unless one has a particular moral stance that is counter to that? Well, you see - you pivoted from grognard to people of a certain moral view who disagree with WotC’s current position. My point is for grognards. Of course, sadly, there are...

So you feel the issue has little to do with storybased gaming vs site-based dungeon crawling, or perceived deadliness of the game or the traditional arguments for why grognards don’t like the direction WotC has taken D&D - instead it’s the moral stance they’ve taken and changes in the rules that...

I’m sorry but that’s simply not true. Cairn, Knave, Shadowdark, OSE, Castles and Crusades, DCC, Mothership, XCrawl - how are any of those games pressured or influenced by WotC? They exist because WotC vacated the space - WotC can’t possibly provide a game for the entire market.

WotC is not catering to a specific personality. They are taking the sum total of experiences they’ve had with the brand, i.e. past products, design decisions, sales, and feedback, and creating a game that will appeal to the broadest number of people. What they’ve determined is that the game that...

“Made fun of” is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting too.

“Some folks” is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting.

I’m okay with that.

You've answered your own question.

People cling to a lot of strange notions, kind of like the "moon landing wasn't real".

I actually prefer the writing in 5e much more to the 5.5 rules - I felt it had a better blend of natural language and rules-speak.

WotC wasn't making fun of them.

Oy. WotC moved on from the game those people staked their identity to more than 30 years ago.