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Wanting players to actually read, and understand the rules of the game they are playing rather than just following what software tells them to do is not, AFAIK, considered gatekeeping. Look, you're mistaking the point I've made and am still making - it isn't that the digital tools have no use...

You wouldn't think so at first glance, but YES, it is. Moreso for those who were gaming PRIOR to the internet, smart phones, tablets, etc. Books ARE different to use. IF, however, the book is badly organized that is when digital approaches work better. No. It is my personal experience. It...

My experience is that the more that players are relying on software to play the game the less the players know about playing the game, and they not only wouldn't know when the software is in error, but they become totally lost when the software isn't holding their hand. Thanks, but no. I...

http://home.earthlink.net/~duanevp/dnd/masscmbt.htm Wrote that a long time ago, mostly with 3E in mind, but it deals with general principles that any version of D&D carries with it.

A very useful change I employed in my 1E games was how healing works, especially from spells, which I determined to be a significant source of the problem. First, after every fight, PC's can recover at least 25% of their hit points - IF they can rest for at least 10 minutes after the fight...

This fits my experience with it. I started playing D&D when Holmes was new and after skipping 4E entirely and rather than running 5E myself I ran 1E and 3E games instead. But when I finally did get a chance to be a 5E player in two campaigns, I definitely was suspicious that something was...

No RPG has an expiration date. Just because any game or any edition of a game ceases publication doesn't mean it will never again be playable - just no longer supported. People will have to... USE their imaginations to come up with material to support OOP games... I mean, I like FFG's SW...

Leader of what? Military? Fighter. Religion? Cleric. Crime syndicates? Thief. Etc.

http://home.earthlink.net/~duanevp/dnd/stat_generation.htm

There is too much that got lumped into this thread in a short time and then overblown to unpack it all. suffice to say that there are several aspects to the original question that EGG had not even begun to consider and he was, IMO, being wildly overblown and overbearing in his expressed...

I have always been all about D&D first and foremost, but recently I have decided that more than anything I want to have a big Fallout-ish RPG using the Wasteland Warfare stuff from Modiphius. If only it weren't going to be so expensive to do that...

For most all practical purposes, I'm not concerned AT ALL. It is laughable to me that it really is even a concern to anyone. Statistics geeks as much as anyone should appreciate that FOR D&D and like-games, it's just not a meaningful factor in the grand scheme. I have yet to see ANYONE, IRL...

More than likely not. I don't look to play D&D just to... not play D&D. Gatekeeping isn't a factor because my opinion on what D&D is/isn't doesn't stop anyone from playing unless I'm turning them away from playing in a game I'm running. What I want out of playing D&D most certainly is...

That makes me smile because 3E's CR was still just a made up number. And yes, it did work rather better than a silly wild-ass guess, but it wasn't nearly as infallible as it is often made out to be. That was just a bill of goods sold to you to convince you that 3E was superior to sliced bread...

I show righteousness by being courageous, honorable, just, ready to help the weak, and do what is right despite the personal cost. Why do I do that? Because I am compelled to do so by personal conviction. Honestly, it's not complicated and never has been... until people make it complicated...

So a DM either creates a definition of disease that works for them, or they leave it as a judgement call in each case. "No official answer," pretty much makes those the options. Not much then to discuss except WHY a particular DM rules a particular way, which is going to amount to, "I don't...

ANY definition? No. But if it's a disease by the GAME'S definition, then yes. Again, define it as a disease FOR THE GAME RULES and it can be cured. What it is defined as in the real world is irrelevant.

Multi-DM campaigns, IME at least, were rare at best and the last one I personally was involved in was back in the 80's. One of the few advantages of being the DM is the ability to impart YOUR vision of a game setting to the participating players and I have always found it problematic to ever...

https://www.enworld.org/threads/e6-the-game-inside-d-d.206323/ Short version: PC levels are hard-capped at 6th, but xp gained allows continued acquisition of feats. In particular this cuts 4th level and higher spells which are THE element that begins to spin what balance the game had out of...