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I don't play D&D, I DM. Nowhere did I say the players have greater control, so that's no really valid. The last part is just your view. The circles I move in would disagree with you. So you might want to consider that you, do not know nearly as much about peoples gaming philosophies as you...

Umm...yes. You have no idea how the conversation actually went or what initial reactions were. So you can only speculate on what the OP has offered as much I can. As I said, you can view it from your POV which clearly supports DM's as authoritative figures who have the final word on everything...

But it doesn't that it is.

I would also prefer to get rid of dailies over encounters but also take it further and get rid of feats as well. Feats have always been a problem in my games and so I made the decision to drop them pretty early on. I'm just now running a campaign were we dropped dailies and feats. So far so good.

Well, we are at an impasse then. In my experience, it is. Especially amoung gamers who have time restraints. Who wants to invest 4-5 hours every week into a story that would possibly go unfinished? It's not unreasonble to want to see a story conclude, especially when you have invested so much...

My players allow me to peruse my interests in D&D. They make me laugh, help me have loads of fun and are my friends. Players are the best people.

That's just, like, your opinion man. He clearly felt no wrong doing and decided to seek clarification that, yes it was all the players fault. You are free to look at it from your DM is law perspective but I don't drink that kool-aid. e: actually bag that, I read the OPs 2nd post wrong. In any...

Yeah, that's exactly how cooperative games work. One party is not entitled to anything above another. If you don't accommodate for your players, fine, they leave but don't throw a tantrum when they do. That's the part everyone is missing. You are all basically encouraging OP for throwing a...

The first thing I've learnt coming back to this forum is to recognise to quite when you're ahead. It's not worth it.

You're claiming because the DM does the most work, then their word is law. That's entitlement dude. Any position which encompasses the views and rules of the DM over all else, is authoritarian. Do you know it was RAW? There were no houserules what-so-ever? No fudging, fiat or anything else that...

DM authoritarianism is equally as entitled. People in glass houses.

DM's know.

Couldn't this be achieved with a system akin to Themes in 4E? I think decoupling this sort of thing from feats would be more beneficial.

This is all well and interesting but I think people gloss over the fact that people argue on the internet for entertainment. Not because they're emotional, illogical wrecks first. I don't doubt that some people are motivated in that way but as a child of the internet age, arguments are usually...

Believable plots are not reactive to the PCs. A game where healing times can take up to 4 days, even longer depending on level, the plot would have to be reactive because the bad guys would simply overwhelm the PCs. So magic healing was often available? Which means quick zap and move on. Which...

As I said, as far as I can see, you trade off one element for its believability while another element suffers. Of course, as you have repeatedly claimed to be, you could be an exception but I wouldn't say that changes the rule.

I'm way too confused to even begin to know what your original problems were. As I remember, they are purely narrative, until more and more problems kept piling up. I don't think we do agree. I don't see a problem with rest times or healing surges. I was trying to think through ways to overcome...

Well, okay, whatever. I mean, I've addressed the issues in your first paragraph so many times and it's just going around and around and around in circles. Everytime I think I'm moving closer to understanding you, you have a new problem. I'm not a liberty to say what you and your group did but...

By your categorization, the wizard can't really know anything notable about war tactics. However, in a skill check, a wizard does. Maybe because I think you mean powers and not exploits? There is nothing stopping a wizard from being martially effective because of their power source. Yet, if...

You accuse healing surges of being easy and quick yet don't stick with natural healing in favour of easy and quick healing magic? That seems like a double standard considering in this situation a cleric allowing their companions to use healing surges is the same as tacking down a "remedy" to...