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Clerics, paladins, bards, barbarians and monks aside. So just around 40% of the classes aside.

The question is: 1. In a party that may have 4, 5 or 6 players, how much time and effort should a DM spend to address problems caused by the mechanics of ONE character? and 2. To what extent does addressing the problems created by the Twilight cleric cause different problems? Better hope the...

Across all the 5e campaigns I have DMed, I have had something like 5 rogues and 2 fighters. Without fail, the rogues have strongly enjoyed their characters and felt they were contributing across all 3 pillars. The 2 fighters ended the game disappointed with their characters, despite my using...

How realistic is characters or monsters walking 20’ away from each other? How are they communicating? Just yelling at each other? How safe is that from an enemy that just picks off the last creature in the line?

Both. One group is spread out over 4 cities and about 5,000 miles, so it is online. The other two are in person. Each has its advantages. I woyld not want to drop a long-time group just because the players are far away.

I wish I could like this more than once.

Fair. I would say that certain typical OSR even make a selling point about killing characters. Both DCC and its boosters tend to trumpet « the character funnel » and the fact that many PCs will die so don’t bother to get attached.

Why do you assume you speak for all grognards?

Also, the Abyss and the Internet. Coincidence?

You are kind of illustrating @Chaosmancer ‘s point here: “want new settings” is different from “have no problem with WotC bringing back Nentir Vale”. If WotC brought back Nentir Vale for 5.5, would you even buy it? How many 5e settings have you bought?

I gave up on TFA because it felt too much like a remake of A New Hope. It really made me reevaluate a Phantom Menace more positively, since Lucas tried to do something new with that film, even if he didn’t always succeed. Duel of the Fates was awesome.

Which is why the OP’s post is critically flawed. They took an exceeding broad definition of grognard to justify their argument that their marketing power was non-negligeable, but the broader definition also meant that the members don’t agree what, if anything, is wrong in the current edition.

That wasn’t your claim. Your claim was that criticism of TLJ was “backfill” i.e. that criticism of the movie was because of racism and nostalgia. It wasn’t. It was a bad movie. The fact that racists and people obsessed with nostalgia also hated it doesn’t make it not a bad movie. And yes...

I actually liked both those movies. But TLJ is still terrible.

Never heard anyone complaining about that scene and I don’t even understand what was tge problem with it now. Nope. Never cared or read about EU canon, and TLJ was still a bad movie (so was the Force Awakens for different reasons). If the principle conceit of your movie is that the Resistance...

I think the original post is fundamentally flawed. Basically, it takes an expansive definition of the term grognard (“Did you start playing 3.0 or earlier? Then you might be a grognard! Call our hotline to find out!”). But it fails on the second branch of what constitutes a demographic: does...

I don’t think the Pareto principle applies here. As someone else pointed out, WorC doesn’t produce enough different types of books for 10% of customers to provide 90% of profit.

Citation needed for WotC completely disregarding grognards, particularly given detailed sections in the new DMG concerning Greyhawk.

Was the problem that Rian Johnson made changes to things, or that he was a piss-poor storyteller? Because I heard a lot more complaints about inconsistencies between movies (and within movies) than the actions of a random stablehand.

I like the new sphinx designs, with a progression from Sphinx of Wonder all the way to Sphinx of Valor.