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while I agree with what you are saying the problem often is that people go into every conversation needing to Win. Not sure the term "victory conditions" would help.

to be fair that can be applied to nearly all communication between human beings. politeness and a show of humanity go a long way. Too bad the internet takes that out of the equation so easily.

One thing I can say for sure after over 20 years of dealing with the public is some people go into things so wound up and ready for a fight that they can't move forward till they have the fight. It's really frustrating to stand there and communicate with someone while trying to help them when...

absolutely correct. This is a problem with flavor vs actual utility. There are probably 20 or so spells that are generically usefull in almost any situation. Making them almost required if the caster wants to be generically useful. And most of the limits on the situationally useful spells...

I hate that the options are so few. Sending is a great spell for what it's supposed to be but there should be other higher level spells, or perhaps expensive devices like two way crystal balls that should be available. I think D&D would work far better if the base assumption by designers was...

I Do the same most DM's I've played with don't they get frustrated and start making up villain only stuff that causes far more frustration and angst than they realize I think.

been waiting since 1977 for someone to pull it off. Never said it was a bad idea it's just about the same amount of work as creating a whole new system. Maybe less with all the bloat of spells over the years.

OH I don't know I'd argue DM's tend to make the same mistakes when they design powers and spells for thier Villains. Villains doing things players can't do IME causes a lot of these arguments.

Of course then we have 8 different classes and all 8 different classes need utility spells, combat spells and enough flavorful spells that they can be played without the others. To do that properly wizards would have to completely make each school of magic a seperate and equally playeable in...

nope I paid 20 dollars for each in 1977 in biloxi Mississippi at the local game shop. err I paid 20 for one and My friend paid 20 for the other...

no it was freaking expensive. 20 bucks for the AD&D book 20 bucks for the GameMaster's guide. The boxed sets about the same. I think sunk costs tended to keep players in whichever group they started in. just checked an inflation calculator. 20 bucks in 1977 was the same spending power...

they are just trying to buy rights to make video games.

If you are throwing obstacles at your players that make them turn around and go home I don't think there is a problem with the story. There might be a problem with the table's definition of fun vs the DM's definition of fun. I've seen a lot of DM's blow thier games up by trying to do the...

Honestly rough rules and gygaxian contradictions aside. It was a simpler game that was far more balanced than anything released since. Assuming you left the psionics and Bards out of it. Many hate it because it had less options, many hate it because it was often run in nity gritty games with...

yep and it's hurt MMO's and most other games that are played by more than one person at a time not just D&D.

that'll be our next stage of evolution 10,000 years from now......Humanity hasn't seen that ever.....

yes but it's the post google world, everyone feels they are required to at least pretend popular opinion matters even when it doesn't.

Another variable in the diference between the two is ranged warfare. tabletop embraces it for the smart move it is and D&D actively attempts to push players to face to face melee distance. It's very much an Anime vs History channel vibe that doesn't really cross over well.

The site I posted earlier only did the old monster manuals that were under OGL and some stuff from pathfinder that pathfinder said was ok for individual use but not commercial. they should all be legal for use.

or I'd suggest this guy. 5 dollars a month on patreon gives you access to all his files. They are decent quality and he started by doing all the monsters in monster manual one and continued on from there. He constatantly puts out files and even does special requests from people in the...