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As we are talking about Rule 0 as it was "DM the final arbiter of the rules". You've had the conversation, it didn't lead to a successful conclusion that all parties were agreed on, so in order to continue, the DM makes a final ruling. In this instance a bad player is someone you've had the...

Yes you can. If the DM is the one with final say established in Rule 0. Because the DM can rule against the bad player to keep them in line, but players can't rule against a bad DM.

I think when you look at the definition of arbiter, "a person who settles a dispute or has ultimate authority in a matter" you reading too heavily in to the second part of it, where as most of us supporting the Rule 0 of "the DM is the final arbiter of the rules" are really more bothered about...

Mechanically you could have it they just move up and age boundary. To avoid doing too much maths.

I suspect Spiderman would have the same thing to say about Bucky's arm as he did about Captain America's shield.

I think he took it that way. Not everyone treats or enjoys RPGs as just a game, like a playing monopoly or checkers. I'm reminded of the saying from Bill Shankly which in his case was about football, but can be applied to anything someone is passionate about. "Some people think football is a...

It's a supernatural effect why can't it age you a percentage of your life span, rather than a number of years. Either makes as much sense as the other being supernatural in origin. It's not like they are travelling close to the speed of life where we have scientific equations to calculate the...

And if they can't come to a compromise? Or at the least not in a timely manner.

You mean like in every edition of D&D and most RPGs, where the DM decided what the rules are?

I think your website is very useful in pointing out that the DM being the one responsible for the rules has a long history, through every edition, and even in different system, probably with good reason. Not sure this change is a good idea, just going to lead to unnecessary arguments if players...

I don't. Oh dear we aren't unanimous however will we decide if this is a good thing or not. Oh I know we could keep arguing for eternity since there is no final arbiter of the rules anymore. “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time...

Anyone else playing any of the Solo (Co-op) Skirmish Games? Stuff like Five Leagues from the Borderlands Five Parsecs from Home Country Road Z Space Station Zero

Even better they aren't locked so if edit the PDF you can delete all the cutesy artwork, or even add stuff that is a little less Disney does D&D.

Library Thing - currently 731 of my Gaming books are recorded there. However unfortunately you have manually enter a lot of the RPG books, as for some stupid reason it doesn't recognise them as books even though they are listed on Amazon, which is one of the places it searches. What's even more...

Been playing for 40 years and I can't think of a single Call of Cthulhu game I've played where combat was the focus of the game, rather than something to try to avoid at all costs. I guess Pulp Cthulhu is more combat focused but I've not played that version. But examples of (none one shots)...

If the inner line broken up looks a little clear as to what it is. https://www.mapeffects.co/tutorials/drawing-cliffs-top-down

No range restriction on Forseen Doom? You can some how take the damage regardless of distance between you and the target of the damage? How is that explained do they teleport next to the target, do magic missiles suddenly turn in flight to strike the Rell? It's 5th Edition we don't given...

I'm not saying it is objectively worse. I am saying it is objectively less challenging, things like death saves, putting stat adjustments where you like, making undead take sneak attack damage, are all objectively less challenging. It is a different style of game, not objectively worse. In fact...

I think this is the major problem with AI currently, it is great at making plausible stuff up, but isn't any good at fact checking. From what I've been told about how AI's currently work, it isn't something that is that easy to fix due to the nature of how they handle data, am sure it will be...

Lets see how ChatGPT it does with one of your other problems. Okay I think there are a number of map artists that could have drawn that, so now we are really getting into ethically questionable areas. But it's not like I (as an individual DM) would have paid an artist to do this in the past, I...