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This is a little disingenuous. Effects in M&M vary so widely that any two given characters will be incredibly diverse in their capabilities regardless of how many points were sunk into them. A PL 10 star-devouring combat monster can easily compete against or sometimes even surpass a generalist...

Only as often as I feel that it makes sense, as I run other, better systems. Though when I did run 5th Edition, I usually ensured that taking a long rest simply wasn't feasible for my players if they wanted to complete whatever objective they had set out to accomplish. Yes, there was time to...

This can't be real. I refuse to believe this. It would be a tacit admission that they were aware of the flaws in their material, knew that said flaws could be ameliorated, and just... didn't.

The only time consuming part is having a consistent world laid out before the campaign begins. Otherwise, it takes me an hour at most to prepare the next session to follow what happened last time, unless I need to make a map or mint a bunch of brand new NPCs. Making campaigns piecemeal is not...

Truer words have never been spoken. Drinking deeply from the brackish well of acrimonious player tears is a sublime experience without compare.

I'm not going to smugly recline in my chair and pretend that most published adventures are winners. In fact, I would go as far as to say that there is a figurative ocean of milquetoast junk that has gradually gotten deeper over the decades. This "Orcs on Stairs" phenomenon happens for a...

I'm of two minds about this. I want a setting like Planescape or Al-Qadim to be resurrected using necromancy. On the other hand, I am of the opinion that the 5th Edition products aimed at DMs are, for lack of a better term, emaciated. So, instead of selling diet versions of old settings, why not...

Nothing. Everyone is free to do as they please with the game. This is a discussion pertaining specifically to the official content that Wizards publishes, products published by Wizards/TSR in the past, and in the case of myself and a few others, what they would not be willing to publish. Some...

The salient point is not that people can't play a S&S game with mostly-nude beefcake warriors, rather, that WotC would not publish such a product in this day and age because they are targeting a particular audience.

That is because 'evil' is a quality that a person can objectively possess in a figurative D&D fantasy world. The alternative to regulating evil wizard behavior to minimize the harm they can do would be to go door-to-door using divination spells and culling anyone unfortunate enough to 'ping' as...

I don't really have a dog in this fight, but... what exactly is the problem with this? Medical professionals today (or at least, the ones that aren't pushing "alternative medicine") must have their abilities evaluated, become certified, and answer to a regulatory body if they wish to practice. I...

Since we're somehow on the topic of Strahd now, I guess I'll mention that the original adventure featuring him was a semi-random "one-shot" type of deal, where he'd have a different goal every time that would cause the plot to play out completely differently. If defeated, he would revive in 1d10...

I do not have Van Richten's Guide, but Curse of Strahd has a fixed population of "real" people in Strahd's domain of dread that perpetuate through reincarnation. A good deal of Barovia's population are actual NPCs - that is to say, soulless meatpuppets that exist specifically as walking talking...

Correct. I come from a marginalized background and have been discriminated against my entire life, but a character that I play in an ongoing game unashamedly expressed that he was grateful that a neighboring nation extinguished an entire ethnic group that he felt did him wrong. He's also seized...

I am not complaining. They are altering something for the purpose of making it more palatable. That is sanitizing.

Let me preface this by saying that I am not being confrontative, and would appreciate your honest thoughts on the matter. Now, as I prefer to back my statements with evidence, let us delve into an older book for a moment. Al-Qadim features slaves available for purchase in the equipment table...

While I actually agree with the premise and assertion that this post conveys, I can't help but feel that using idioms to qualify one's arguments is just a little bit disingenuous. I guess what I'm offering isn't so much a refutation of this post as it is a commentary on it. True, you can't...

The imagery that this provokes... yes, I think I'll be co-opting it. Would you care to elaborate on this a little? I did not plan on buying the book, and I'm currently not in the mood to hunt down a copy that happened to fall off of a truck at the moment.

"Uncomfortable" describes my experience with Dungeons & Dragons elegantly, but it sure wasn't because of anything in the books, old or new.