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That's pretty much was D&D 4e was - an attempt to make an rpg that would appeal to video gamer types.

Since the 70s, when I started playing, I have always run my campaigns in worlds of my own devising. As a DM, half the fun of things for me is creating the worlds.

None of those. There needs to be an "other" category.

It was weird for me, too, but that's part of why I did it - to see if I could take a seemingly useless character and make him a valuable party member. It was an intellectual challenge, not something that I continued with other characters. The other PCs decided they liked the character, so that...

Yes. Thank you.

Is there a problem when a fighter with very low charisma is part of a party that enters into negotiations in a royal court setting? He would be useless in that one type of encounter, but not useless as an overall party member. I think a lot of commenters are coming at it from this direction...

Yes. Exactly. Tabletop RPGs and computer-based games are the same thing, despite the gaming industry's use of the acronym "rpg" in describing some of them.

That's ridiculous. Why did you keep playing with a DM like that?

Have you read the original thread? If not, you need to do so if you are going to make blanket assumptions about that character. There are many ways to contribute to a campaign that have nothing to do with magic or fighting, particularly if you are playing in a game that isn't just...

Yes, exactly. I'm not sure what happened along the way, but in the last decade or so I have encountered more and more players who see rpgs as pen-and-paper video games, where everything is about making the most powerful character, killing the most things, and getting the most stuff. There's no...

To repeat: He wasn't a freeloader. He fed himself. He didn't take any shares of the treasure or weapons (since he didn't care about those things). Nobody spent time having to protect him or rescuing him. He was quite adept at taking care of himself without the need for combat. Again...

He did. The DM agreed that he did. So did the other players.

Yep. Check the post immediately after yours.

That's your group, not all groups. Fantasy roleplaying does not have to revolve solely around fighters, magic users, thieves, and clerics. Without going into the whole discussion all over again, I found ways to make the character useful and relevant to the game, long before I ever introduced...

Yep. You should see the flak I took over playing a dirt farmer in one campaign. Not from the DM or other players, but from some commenters on ENWorld. They simply couldn't conceive of a character with no standard class skills being an active and useful member of a campaign.

If I understand what you mean by "games are codes," I disagree. They can be played that way, but don't have to be. In addition, there is not always a hard solve. That's just one way to play. DMs play NPCs. A good one plays the NPCs as characters with natural limits on their knowledge and...

I pre-ordered two of the Player's Handbooks for the public library I run - one to go in one of the prize packages for this year's Summer Reading Club, and one to go in our circulating collection. I have also pre-ordered one each of the DMG and Monster Manual for the circulating collection. We...

There are a number of posters who don't seem to have internalized the fact that there are many ways of DMing and playing D&D (or any rpg), and that what's really important is that everyone involved has fun. My personal style of DMing has evolved over 35+ years. At one point, though, sometime...

I ignore that chart.

I wouldn't tolerate that. That sort of behavior would end really quickly or he'd be kicked to the curb.