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I had a person quit my game because they would rather not play than play a non-evil PC. I've had a friend invite me to a game that was going to be centered around evil PCs and I chose not to join. I once quit a game where things like casting fireball full of innocent people to get a suspected...

I blame myself. I took the risk of playing an elf, thinking that perhaps 5E had broken the curse. Then at the end of the first session, last fight, the last enemy standing critted and because the DM wanted to give me a chance to survive he rolled the damage. Max normal and crit. Instant...

And? I'm the one running the game. I have a handful of house rules and expectations. If you don't like my restrictions, I have plenty of people willing to play. So are you saying that any restrictions, any restrictions at all are verboten? A player wants to play an evil PC. I don't want to...

Technically we no longer have half anything other than [edit: phone typo] halflings [/edit];) On the other hand we have minotaurs, centaurs, gryphons, lamias...the list of mixed species that could not mix without magic is quite long. That and I rather doubt tabaxi are really just humans in...

Hmm ... that gives me an idea! People are always complaining that PC's don't have anything to spend money on so this could be an opportunity. Sure, you bought that set of "fine clothes", but that fashion is sooo 15 minutes ago! The truly fashionable people of high standards are wearing clothes...

But they always steal the show (and the one ring), become the central character of the campaign. Then they ultimately arbitrarily decide who deserves the treasure. 😠

What tools and techniques other than "compromise"? Which means that the DM accepts, at least in part, what the player wants effectively every time while ignoring that sometimes there are clear yes/no situations.

What defense is there? That these types of questions come up every 20-30 or so hours of game play time as an estimate? It's rarely anything big, it's just me saying that they've misread the text or that the player doesn't know which way I rule something. The former happens now and then with...

What's funny is that I've pitched an all dwarf party before and there's always a player or two that absolutely refuse to play them. Last time, it was the majority of players were pushing for it when discussing options, but we still had a holdout. Meanwhile I pitched an all elf campaign and...

I don't know what to say. You keep making these pronouncements that I'm some sort of dictator DM I figure I must have missed something. When I DM I make the final call on rules. I follow the default approach of D&D in that the players are responsible for the player's deeds and words while the...

The guidance for DMs is and always has been that the DM makes the final call. You repeatedly and misleadingly call me out as being a dictator, someone who always say no and never listens to my players. I'm simply pointing out a typical situation where, as a DM, I would make the final call...

In some cases there is no compromise and someone has to make a final call. Can a rogue thief with fast hands cast a spell off a scroll as a bonus action no matter what the casting time is? Kim says "no", Alex says "yes". There was no compromise in the thread this came up in a while back. Someone...

If I pitch a campaign I include limitations and restrictions. No evil PCs for example. If someone only wants to play an evil PC and doesn't want to be part of my game, I'm not going to feel bad about it. For that matter when someone pitched a campaign with evil PCs I chose not to join, it's...

I tell people what kind of game I run, what ruleset we're using, restrictions and so on in my invite. I run campaigns in my home world but I still have quite a bit of flexibility. So if this is an established group I'll discuss options and of course they can make suggestions on general theme of...

I want everyone at the table to enjoy the game. I am one of those people and I don't enjoy games with evil PCs so I forbid them. I also accept that I am not the right DM for everyone. I think that makes me pragmatic. I can't please everyone, so I may as well play with people that enjoy the...

Who's to say the aren't secretly the master race? What better way to ensure that the cattle humans with their tasty, tasty brains compliant and satisfied? :unsure:

Pretty much everything in D&D is oversimplified and doesn't really work when applied to the real world. Alignment is no exception. I don't know the alignments of any of my player's characters even though I tell them that I want to run a no-evil heroic campaign. Meanwhile alignment for...

While we don't currently have other species running around with human level intelligence, based on our best understanding Neanderthal were just as intelligent as we are, perhaps even more intelligent. They were also stronger although exactly how much stronger is open for debate. On the other...

Last time I checked tortles wew not related to humans in the slightest. Meanwhile myth has humans breeding with bulls, it's how we got minotaurs.

They will only consider significant change if sales fall. Perhaps some people with popular blogs or some other kind of significant following (I refuse to use the "i" word) could be noticed. But one lone individual that has been banging the same drum for years in a forum? Repeating the same...