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Which runs into the problem that "Animate Dead" does absolutely nothing to the soul. It's off in a heaven being annoyingly happy or in agony in a hell. What you have is an animate sack of meat or bone. Greater undeath spells may actually do things to souls. Of course there's that whole "powered...

How about you stop telling me what I think?

Sacrosanct and Paraxis: yes, I'm entirely serious. "you can make villainous NPCs with classes and levels using the rules from the Player's Handbook" follows the "most people are stupid" model I felt with 4e, which I also avoided. To me it promotes the idea that people don't use their own...

The first paragraph on the righthand side of the first page is insulting: it's talking down to readers. The class example, however; I like.

OP: The Multiverse never went anywhere. Perhaps you mean "official" multiverse, whatever that means? Whose official multiverse?

Citizen, Kickstarters represent a desire to distribute wealth. Distribution of wealth suggest unusually high levels of unhappiness. Happiness is mandatory. Failure to be happy is treason. Please report to the nearest termination booth. Have a nice daycycle. :)

1.) Too verbose, I'm mentally making the "talking too much" hand gesture: you want your players excited, not stop reading out boredom. I was originally going to quote the entire post and cut out the excess. 2.) Seems aimed at Cinematic, which I've never seen actually work in a session. In my...

Step 1. Decide what the lesser bad guys are going to do. Step 2. Let what happens happen. Step 3. Go from there.

[Thompson and Thomson]To be precise, the DM/GM/Whatever-the-alternate-of-the-system-is, plays several characters. To be precise. [/Thompson and Thomson]

A friend mentioned being interested in playing 2nd Edition AD&D. While I did ponder the idea, I am not going to switch gears while I'm actively recruiting for another system all together. That thinking did lead me to think about all the bookkeeping of magic items losing their abilities based on...

Leading me to further justify why I left a GURPS group over a year ago. There were so many cases where the GM had a specific solution in mind, and thought we the players were dumb for not being able to read his mind. This could, and often did, do on for hours. Which meant most of the session as...

I think the main problem in this poll is that we're arguing semantics. Saying "warrior mage" tells me as a player that I want my guy to be a hybrid fighter/caster. By itself it tells me nothing about why the character ended up on this path.

Indeed, but keep a vigilant ear out.

I avoided 4e for several reasons, but topping that list was "simplifying things that weren't complicated in the first place". 5e is doing some things I like, and quite a bit more I don't. Overall, it won't be enough to bring me back to D&D. So, my philosophy is "simpler is not always better...

While I know it's become popular over the past decade or so to "be important in the world", I've never particularly cared about number 3 at that tabletop. Does the adventure have a world reaching outcome? Possibly. Most important to me is how my character's part of the story plays out and...

As a non-optimizer, I applaud the inability to front-load your stats (too much). Why am I non-optimizer? I'd rather have a character who doesn't have a significant handicap in anything he's not optimized for, so that I don't get bored until I get to do "my guy's thing". Of course, that's just...

Dannyalcatraz, thank you for re-quoting. It shows me I misread earlier, as I had originally thought the DM in question was loud enough for the whole mall to hear.

A variation on C was mentioned upthread, and while passive aggressive, sometimes that's actually the way to go. His friend, the manager, has already talked to him. The reaction reported was an outburst. Actually, I'd more go for talk to the other players and arrange somewhere else to meet...

Bookstore in a redundant mall. The reason I call the mall redundant is because it was built next to an existing mall that was already close enough to where I lived at the time. Both malls still exist, the bookstore is gone.

Thinking back to this DM's reaction to the manager talking to him about it. I don't think he saw it as "store owner requesting a change in behavior" and feel it's much more likely, based on the reaction we've been told, that he took it as "challenging my friendship". While I can understand this...