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Oh man, I really need to start paying more attention to the dates on these posts. Before I start responding to 19 year old threads… Edit: oh crap! Too late, I just did! Heh

Exactly. I’ll buy (or not) based on the final product. Being laid off is horrible. I feel for those people. I’ve been there. My partner has been there. In fact, I’m not sure I know anyone our age who hasn’t at one time or another. If I stopped purchasing goods and services from companies...

This is definitely something I’ll take a long hard look at when it’s released. But 2025 is way too far for me to even consider Kickstarting. That’s far enough out that I’m at the age now where I have to at least consider if I’ll even still be here then…heh. (Odds are still in my favour, but...

Well, I appreciate you taking my posts at face value and not assuming any sarcasm, parody, or I’ll intent. I’m sorry you thought that to begin with. And I do appreciate the effort you took responding. I’m not going to spend the same amount of time, only because I think it’s clear that we both...

I’m not trying to enshrine the DM as a dictator. Obviously they need to get the buy-in of the entire group. But I guess I’m just more old-school than I thought. Someone has to create the setting and the game. That requires a certain amount of latitude.

You want DMs to be limited? Is that right? I’m sorry, but to me, the fact that the DM has the freedom to customize the feel of their own game is one of the strengths of the hobby. Just in this thread alone, there’s been a huge variance in the desire for the type and scope of magic items. Why...

Why should the PHB have rules for magic items? Wouldn’t that straight jacket DMs? In this thread, we’ve seen people who want loads of magic items, some who want minimal, and some in between. Some have wanted both, in different campaigns. Lots of talk about maintaining ‘wonder’. By keeping...

There's a difference between 'no magic items' and 'no boring + items'. I'm not sure anyone is advocating dumping the magic item section. Just that for some of us, interesting magic items are more worthwhile than endless '+1, +2, +3' weapons and armor. And I don't think anyone is seriously...

I don’t know. Doesn’t seem like a great plan. The fact that Elon Musk and I might like the same toppings on our pizza isn’t going to to stop me from being horrified by his general level of toxicity. In fact, I’d say that the tendency to force people into seeing others as only Good or Evil...

So that was his ingenious plan? Say something relatable about video games, so that a bunch of people on an elf-game board will say he’s not a monster for not wanting to commit video game violence (while at the same time saying he is a monster for all the real monstrous things he does)? Now...

Sure, I can probably think of a bunch of ridiculous things someone could say that would make me laugh. Saying they don’t like pretending to commit real world crimes in a video game isn’t anywhere close.

Well, if it involves mocking and belittling people for something ridiculous like their food preferences, then yeah, I’m glad to have missed it.

Yeah, that would bother me too (I didn’t see that). I don’t know, it just feels like something I complain about right-wing pundits doing. Finding some little thing that their opponents have said, and trying to blow it all out of proportion. So I’d feel hypocritical not to push back if I see...

Yeah, I could (and should have just ignored it). But I guess as a 52 year old gamer who likes story-based fps games, but didn’t play GTA5, seeing someone laughed at as a hypocrite for claiming they were a 52 year old gamer who likes story-based fps games, but didn’t play GTA5 rubbed me the...

I really don’t see the lack of Attunement or Slot info on the sheet as an attack on magic items. In fact, I would say it makes it easier to just chuck any magic item limits if that’s what a DM wants. I can’t see how it possibly could be a roadblock to stop a DM from using all the magic items...

But again, he called out Saints Row 4, which is the ‘President fighting aliens in a weird simulation’, if I recall correctly. It may have the same style of play as GTA, but I have no problem understanding how people could be fine with a fictitious setting like that, but be against real-world...

Yeah, I’m pretty sure avoiding the magic item Christmas Tree effect was a huge selling point for 5e. They went out of their way to avoid the number stacking craziness of the 3e era. It sure as heck was a selling point for me and my group, who were sick to death of the magic weapon treadmill...

Weird. Saying he’s a long term gamer who likes Mass Effect in no way implies he like earlier GTA games. I also like fps games with stories, and wouldn’t go near GTA. Saints Row 4 is a little more confusing, but isn’t that the one that is highly unrealistic? I mean, the player is the...

How is that any more passive-aggressive (which is an odd take to begin with) than saying you want all those additions to the character sheet and more robust rules because that’s your preferred game? They aren’t going to write rules and subsystems that they think the majority of people will...

Yeah, like I would totally tell someone I didn’t buy GTA5 due to the violence and such. I wouldn’t feel the need to specify it was also the reason I didn’t buy any of the other ones as well. I would assume it was, well, assumed. Like when Avengers came out, and someone told me they didn’t go...