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It would probably be the most polite thing I've ever heard about a losing sports team.

I think this is selling the idea a bit short. Fighters are generalists that are deadly all around, but one of the few consistent themes that has managed to stick throughout the editions is that the Ranger is a specialist that can take down a specific type of creature better than anyone else...

Sure. The only reason why they couldn't is if they were designed not to.

Call it confirmation bias, but I've always noticed a disproportionate amount of women playing rangers.

A player who deliberately gives up a pawn to gamble on furthering a strategic objective is accountable for its loss, in much the same way that a player who loses a pawn due to a tactical blunder is still accountable for its loss. But, I believe that this is supposed to be analogous, so I'll bite...

Overcoming this hurdle was my first step to unlocking the secrets of prosperity. The first DM I ever played with kept putting our group into sweaty situations where the lives of innocents were at stake, a fairly typical staple of any heroic fantasy. That's not to say they pulled their punches...

"Toxic positivity" is a fixation on positive thinking even in situations that are distinctly bleak or undesirable. It's telling a parent that witnessed the death of their child "Don't be so sad, you can still have another one!" Or callously saying "Hey, it could always be worse, buddy!" To...

Living in a region where the effects of an elaborate race-based caste system can still be felt, I can soundly say that it is common enough for the two to go hand-in-hand. What a strange vector for this discussion to take, at any rate.

Where can I obtain a copy of this fascinating product? Asking for a friend.

Do you mean to tell me that a commercial organization formed for the explicit purpose of generating profit will prioritize its revenue stream at the expense of other concerns? How am I supposed to reconcile with this dreadful revelation?

Nah, I came on board with 5e and I developed an adversarial relationship toward it after a few years. I imagine this post will receive numerous polite replies, but I find that running 5th Edition is kind of a chore when measured up against some other systems. I'll still play it, though I find...

Absolutely. I felt that those two excerpts were worth highlighting.

I'd just like to juxtapose these two gold nuggets against one another. I detest this one in particular so much, because it's basically a GM spiting me for getting invested in the NPCs. It's one thing if, say, the countess just totally rebuffs all of my advances, but if I manage to successfully...

The tools for designing an anti-player encounter come prepackaged with the game. Lead your PCs into a small enclosed space, preferably a room with a high ceiling or a pit of some sort, and find a way to physically block off any exits. Station a beholder above them that keeps its antimagic cone...

It's not so much that the Sorcerer got slapped with a minus as much as every other caster got a plus. Now everyone can use every spell that they have memorized. The new default was the Sorcerer's original gimmick.

I don't really have a stake in this ongoing discussion, since my GM style is totally different than the one which seems to be the subject of this thread, but I'll try to offer some perspective on this by taking the scenario and moving the furniture around such that the stakes are actually...

Y'know, I've seen a lot of wacky things in my lifetime, but this has got to be the first time I've seen someone use a discussion about tabletop role-playing as a venue to endorse the Noble Lie™. In the first example, the player in question possessed all of the knowledge they needed to determine...

I sure do. The sounds they make when I tell them how much damage their characters take is ambrosia for the ears.

Yes. Death and Fate are within the Raven Queen's purview. If there is a societal collapse or a great calamity, it would not be unreasonable to suspect that she might have had a hand in it, so their machinations likely intersect with her interests more often than they think. The entry also...

The sheer amount of acrimony with which this portrays the hypothetical player in question astounds me.