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It was missing what I most needed it for: Space ship rules.

Some actual crunchy rules. Like, bare minimum on a lvl of the Van Richtens Guide to Ravenloft. Spelljammer was deeply disappointing.

They are tedious. Both as a DM and as a player for me.

The intent is to not endorse any specific viewpoint, though I do have my own which I can illuminate if needed. What I am more speaking to is behavior and conduct towards each other. People mistaking taste judgements for moral judgements. As I didn't make clear earlier: I would say that...

I would certainly agree that a given game may have its own culture which governs how one see to running it. But there will be a large amount of overlap I would expect, with only very distant extremes within the hobby not having at least some things in common.

This is what I am referring to. Calling a game decision "a lie" is a moral judgement. It's not merely saying doing it this way is suboptimal or won't accomplish goals for a GM. It is stating that conducting the game this way would be immoral. That doing this causes harm to the game experience...

I apologize for my initial lack of clarity. Much of my initial post was an immediate, off the cuff musing, which I expected to develop further if this threat persisted.

The connotations are purposeful. It is part of my contention that people viewing these as morals rather than preferences is part of what blinds some GMs to other perspectives.

So something in another threat got me thinking. So many GM style arguments come down to clashes of what can be called "Guiding Morals." What I mean is, having a few key principles of how a game should be run, priorities of play, that you are willing to bend other considerations to serve. So...

To elaborate: The issue for me is that Fighter and Barbarians, and to a lesser extend Paladins, can often feel like they don't contribute as much out of combat. Rogues and Bards get skills (and spells for Bards) which allow them to help in the other pillars of play outside of combat.

My counter: Give Fighters more skills, both in terms of number and choices.

I also find it fascinating, and it's really not new, but its on the cusp of being good enough to be commercially viable.

Yielding creative expression out of human hands is the end of human culture. That is the terminal point of this technology. When we no longer write our own stories or compose our own songs or paint our own pictures, we won't have a culture any longer. Quite simply, I won't support or purchase...

This is a very dangerous road and some folks are just skipping along, throwing posies.

So I curious to see if anyone also does this. I own a decent selection of TTRPGs, in terms of physical media. By my shelf space has an upper limit, as does my time, so on occasion, I have to weed things out. I 'generally" don't have a need for a game if I feel I already have the concept...

So for years, Attack of the Clones. Since then I have mellowed. Watching people get super upset about the Disney helmed sequel films made me look back at the visceral anger I had about the prequels overall in my 20s and see how pointless such a reaction is. However, If Im being objective, Rise...

St Cuthbert, in that the name is lifted from an actual saint associated with the place I went to Uni.

But not one that is synced with DnDBeyond.

When this song came out and was big on MTV for a bit, I thought it was the stupidest thing ever. Now it feels so achingly prescient.