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Sure. And some people are less inclined to trust someone they find attractive. Or to dismiss attractive people as vapid and not worth listening to. And none of that usually comes into play at all if a human is trying to trick a goblin or cast a spell. I'd leave the effect of appearance to be...

I agree with this. But it doesn't affect my enjoyment of the game at all if a particular PC doesn't cast particular spells. Why would it? That PC will contribute in other ways.

Well, we have a fundamental disagreement that won’t be resolved here. I’m curious though if your reasoning stops with healing spells. What other spell selections should a cleric make in order to play the game with an acceptable level of cooperation? If I refuse to cast animate dead when it...

Right. That’s the disagreement. I don’t think that circumstances ever arise where cooperation requires healing. There are lots of ways to cooperate.

I fully agree that cooperation is important. But I fully disagree with the notion that cooperation = casting healing spells.

I'm staying clear of Keys and Phandelver, in part because I'm hoping to be a player and not a DM for the foreseeable future. Giants has no appeal except as a sedative. I don't know what to expect from Many Things, so I suppose I will be interested in seeing a table of contents, but I'm unlikley...

I have absolutely no objection to a fellow player running a character that focuses on damage and control but doesn't use resources for healing, whether they use the cleric chassis to model that concept or if they're a fighter battle master or a hexblade, or whatever they chose to play. That...

A. Variable. B. What do you mean if? C. Yes, interested!

You didn't say that the player was arguing that "hot appearance" should be a benefit in social interactions. You said the player was arguing that they should be exempt from Charisma checks due to the appearance. Regardless of charisma, I can certainly imagine in-game situations in which...

I have a hard time seeing that as point with any degree of validity.

A PC with a low Charisma score being played as a high Charisma character is just a PC who thinks they’re charismatic. They won’t do well on CHA checks and they’ll be lackluster bards.

I can only answer for myself. Why? Because beauty isn't an obvious part of the definition of charisma. (It's not even a small part of charisma by any definition that I've encountered.) And beauty doesn't greatly affect the associated skills. Those two points seem to be your major assumptions...

Businesses are run by people, and, cynical though I am, I have to acknowledge that people have complex motivations, goals, and values beyond maximizing profit. People can build and maintain their businesses without tearing down others. Businesses can develop partnerships. It's not all...

I'm interested in the answers to those questions too. I occassionally feel the need to encourage my players to focus on telling me what their characters are doing (or trying to do) rather than trying to figure out what their DM thinks they should do. Likewise, as a DM, I avoid deciding what I...

Me too!

“Going nuclear” is a common colloquial phrase, known by those who use that phrase as obvious hyperbole. No one — absolutely no one — thinks that the revocation of the OGL is an equivalent injustice to war. People can respond to various things in the world, not just the worst thing.

I’ve been called cynical.

I suspect they wanted to extract value (by way of stock dividends) from WotC. By breaking WotC away from the lower-performing arms of Hasbro, they could achieve that goal. I really don’t think they’re concerned about making products worth buying. This is the activist investor version of...