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What 5th edition needs to achieve IMO: WotC's stated intent is to allow all gamers, regardless of their play styles or system preferences, to enjoy the new game and make it their own. I have one recipe that might be a winner towards that goal. I believe the OD&D (1974) format was a winning...

What makes D&D "D&D". Dungeons. And Dragons. That's it. Dungeons : this is a game of exploration. The "dungeon" may be tunnels underground, a huge citadel in the planes, or a blank map of the lands beyond the Border, but this is basically the premise of the game that makes it fantastically...

It's not and never was about "realism", to me. It's about immersion, i.e. about experiencing the game world from my character's perspective, as being that character (or, as a DM, experiencing the environment through its many moving parts, environments, monsters, maps, NPCs etc. it's...

The point is that there are issues, such as bad DMing, which you cannot solve with mechanics, and worse, that such attempts to "fix" bad DMing with rules actually have an impact on the game that makes it poorer for it. And I agree. I wish people would realize that the rules are a tool. They...

Combination of approaches, strongly leaning towards describing what your character does, and the DM making a judgment call. The DM makes the judgment call yes, but this judgment call might be to roll a die because the outcome of this or that investigation is uncertain. This is why you have...

OP: All I see is a massive logic failure on the player's part. It really comes down to this: if a player's a moron and wants to stick to his guns being a moron, there's not much you can do about it. Play or play not with that person. If you play with that person, just overlook his occasional...

Mark (Mistwell), dude? You were wrong. ;)

In print, I hope. Or PoD. Not digital-only through DDI. IF they do print/PoD, that'd be a very nice move that would go a long way towards putting the pieces of the D&D community back together.

Role playing games to me are not novels. They're not movies. They're not comics. They're not MMOs. They're not "something else" to be judged by "something else's" standards. Can a rule be art? That's an interesting question. I would say "yes", because a rule represents something in the context...

I was answering the title of the thread, i.e. "is D&D art?" which can mean "is D&D, the published game book(s), art?" or "is D&D, the process of play itself using the books as tools, art?" My post addresses both questions. If you are talking about the question appearing on the poll itself...

No, D&D is not about combat. It is about the exploration of the unknown (the dungeon, the wilderness, etc). Combat is just one of the ways in which the explorers can interact with their environment as they explore it.

Can't vote. It's not a yes/no thing. Asking whether a manual to play a role playing game is art is like asking if the toolkit to build a chair is art. It can be if the designer of said toolkit conceived it as a work of art, a toolkit that would be assembled in such a way as to say something...

That's part of it, for sure.

The notion you can't role play in 4E is wrong. 4E is a role playing game, and you can have some pretty intense role play with it if you want to. The defining factor in the guy's original complaint is just that: if you want to. There is something to be said about what particular individuals are...

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Just so you guys know, Professor Cirno is quoting your posts on SomethingAwful, on grognard.txt. See posts following this one (following page as well).

Your role is to enable the players to interact meaningfully with the campaign milieu. This means you are a tough, neutral, fair, referee. You thrive to master the game, and not let the game master you. You are not going out of your way to humiliate or save characters from their doom, but role...

WotC D&D jumped the shark with 3.5 D&D. It just took time for me to realize it. Then came Book of Nine Swords, and then it became increasingly obvious, with the Rust Monster Redux and all the BS that followed.

Other: I am playing in a 3.5 game, but I mostly play (4 different characters in three different games) in AD&D 1e games. I also run as DM an AD&D 1e Ptolus game, and an OD&D Greyhawk/Yggsburgh game separately.

Have a chat, all of you together, including your DM friend, yourself, the five other players. All together. Then discuss what you want to do next, and try to find common ground together. You know. Relax, talk this over, and try not to take offense when and if you disagree. Try to see everyone's...