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Oh advocate yourself, of course, you beautiful bastard.

The amount of posturing and hat tipping in this conversation... 🧐

Splendid. I've found that it can also be quite sufficient to focus a lot on your own improv skills as a DM and emphasize it when running the game. This often stimulates the players into doing the same and helps them to learn how it works, and why it is fun.

Why is there a conflict or disagreement here? I mean is your point just "I disagree with your semantics"? Where is the content, the substance in that? The "actual game" says "yargh, maties, these be but guidelines", so what the heck is the point of people trying to do String Theory physics when...

Lmao, just thinking for five seconds about this and my history with it cracks me up. I've kidnapped my players, sold them into slavery on a pirate ship (different kidnapping), marooned them, had fleeing baddies take downed PCs as prisoners/hostages. Heck I've SHRUNK the party and made them try...

This certainly should be an entertaining thread to read. My last name is Cash. Like Johnny Cash, my uncle on my grandpa Grady's side. On both sides of the family, the Cash side and the Stinnett side (my mother's family), we're bananas about music. Everyone plays something, there are always...

Ummm no that's just called D20 math. I understood that before 3rd became 3.5.

Sees player flip out, sparks a joint and passes it to him. "It's a game bro, I made grilled cheese and ham sammies, want some?" Lol, I love nerd culture but it figures we're all so passionate that things can get heated. I remember coming to my uncle's shop to play Warhammer 40k and seeing a guy...

Swarm couldn't have stated this any better. When reading them I felt that both parties were right about the issue and Umbran could have been interpreted much more charitably.

Another element that has probably been considered by people here, but so far as I can tell not mentioned in the thread: Critical Role is an English language program. There are people playing D&D who don't speak English, and there are forums in other languages where people discuss the game.

Heh, there's always going to be the No True Scotsman thinking floating around with regard to who all plays and whether what they played was D&D, but you have a point. It's just not clear what the size of the active player base is.

Really, that's not something that most DMs do? Being ready to improvise if necessary was my first concern when learning to DM.

This resonates some with me. The times that I've been overly negative, and have at least been aware of the fact, it has bothered me. In general it's been important to find some balance and control over negativity even if only for the sake of mental health. So I've learned to apologize more and...

I suppose alignment is a thing, but if you asked me I honestly wouldn't know what alignment my PCs are.

My last wizard.

10 I can super identify with. I've heard from so many DMs not to be overly permissive with players and "reward" them with too many goodies and options for free of the game getting out of control, but on the contrary I've always found it a labor of love trying to make different things work.

Well, the reason I'd ask whether people consider it "fully D&D" or not is that so many of the rules center around attributes that are germaine to, actions that can be taken in, and things that occurs during combat.

The way that I see it, if my way of playing the game isn't pretty idiosyncratic then myself and my players aren't owning the game and enjoying it however we play. So, we're an extremely homebrew friendly group.

Let's phrase this with two lines of questioning: -In some recent sessions I didn't put the players in a real combat encounter more than once, over the course of three sessions. In fact in one of them we didn't even crack out the map and minis. Were we in some way not playing D&D? Was it not...

You seem to be laboring under the assumption that I proposed success percentage is the one and only great consideration for making a balanced game. It isn't and I would never suggest that. Obviously I understand that not every PC can take all of the same actions. This doesn't somehow subvert it...