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My thinking goes in line with @Scribe. As a player, i'm the one who is responsible with which content i will or won't engage. Same as him, i turned down games. FE i had burnout on D&D and fantasy in general. Told my friends. Offered to run oWoD or 7th sea, but they weren't into it. They had fun...

Even then, they aren't fun. Slowest xp progression,very low hp (unless you rolled at least 15 for con, 2 hp on average), low AC (unless you rolled at least 15 for dex, you have AC 10), 1 spell per day. Lv 1 wizards die if someone sneezes hard in their direction. Giving them name is optimistic...

That one is easy as it requires minimal lore tweak on behalf of DM to accommodate player. Instead of having spider fetish, Lolth now has bat fetish, drow are all about bats, it fits thematically with Underdark and everyone is happy. If DM knows in advance that one of the players has...

I don't. Played only one Wizard in 2ed. It died 20 minutes after first session started in stupid bar brawl. 2hp wizard killed by dwarf sailor with 1d3+1 knife. After that, i go MC route, first 2-3 levels of fighter, than go into wizard. To be fair, lv 1 wizards weren't fun in 3ed. Hp got...

I agree. I met lots of new people trough gaming, including people i now consider my closest friends (one is my best man, 2 others are godfathers to my kids). In my 20+ years of gaming, not one of the groups was friend group first that started gaming together. It was gaming group that became...

Yes, but you will expand your customer base. In the end, WoTC is for profit company. D&D is consumer market product. They want to reach as many consumers as they can.

Ahhh. OWoD. First ttrpg i ever played, and straight into Sabbath campaign. It rocked. But unlike that girl from your game, mine was with group of peps who's idea of good Friday evening was chilling in the historical old graveyard (it's nice place in the center of the city, it was used from mid...

Those word are fine. Problem is, it's not really viable for people who do online only games with players from different cities/countries. While online gaming wasn't that big 10 years ago when last DMG was published, it became very popular due to pandemic.

It's not runing away. It's tactical retreat :D I design world that has inner logic. PC can and do encounter things way above their pay grade and they are told at session 0 that there will be times when fighting isn't best option and that running away is best option. They get enough warnings...

Do coke and wear pastel colored shirt. Half naked chicks in chain mail bikini. Half naked oiled up muscle bound hunks in leather. Epic one liners. Heavy metal soundtrack. R rated, blood and violence galore, with occasional naked boob or ass.

I get it. I always told new people, both in gaming groups and at workplace, if you have any issues, feel free to talk to me in private if you aren't comfortable in group setting. But i prefer to deal with those situations in person. Text messages don't convey body language. While i prefer...

Could you explain a bit if it's not a problem, what would you consider socially acceptable channels? Never dealt with Kiwis, but i had enough interactions with Brits and to lesser degree Aussies. It was in professional setting (first trough NATO joint operations, later in corporate sector on...

But they aren't. Act like an adult means - if you have problem with something, say it. Talk to fellow player, talk to dm. If someone says or does something that upsets you, voice it out. People aren't mind readers. I have low tolerance for passive aggressive behavior and drama. This is hobby, we...

Never heard of consent forms. I haven't played or ran game with complete strangers in years. But i had system for those occasions. Before session 0, i invite whole group for casual coffe/drink hang out. It's good opportunity to get to know people and in casual setting talk about game in...

That's exactly what i did. First 2 levels of fighter, than 11 levels of wizard (abjurer). There wasn't any reason to take more levels of fighter, got all i needed from those first 2 levels. By going fighter first, it increased low level survival. Personally, i have no problem with...

While point buy removes unusually high scores, it remove low ones also. And while occasional character with very low score can be fun, not everyone loves playing them, nor do they fit in all types of campaigns and playstyles. While my int 5 iliterate barbarian was fun in h&s campaign, it would...

Commenting and discussing game here (usually during work hours) or with my friends over coffe/beer. Occasionally, i'll make 3d model and 3d print out characters (and give them to wife so she can paint them). I used to spend more time reading novels, campaign settings, creating character...

No, but when designing new version of product, popularity of feature matters. If something isn't popular, you don't waste time and money on it. Plain and simple.

3e feat leadership was of marginal use. People mostly used it to get free heal bot follower one level lower than party, cause you get permanent cumulative penalty to your leadership score for every cohort that gets killed. Followers were even worse, you got 5-6 lv npc-s who would get killed...

No game is perfect. And no game can please anyone. Game that is great for one group is bad for the other. What they did right with 5e is they made game that's good enough for majority of people. They made everybody's second favorite game. I heard numerous times reason for playing 5e was...