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-Okay what's the issue? -Why should I even engage with someone who takes seriously literally nothing that I say and basically responds with "nuh'uh"? I've engaged your points, have made an effort, and this is all you're willing to offer. It comes across as more than a little condescending and...

I'm confused, and don't know what I'm supposed to say other than to restate that it's thoroughly within the rules of 5E to solve a combat through social interaction or the environment. I never made up rules to make either of those a thing, I made up my own monsters. There aren't even any...

-I'll never understand how people say "well that's not really 5E you're talking about" when they notice several differences in my play. So far as I'm aware all the editions have explicitly encouraged home brewing. -It's plenty relevant. I gave an example of an encounter resolved through social...

Thank you for being this detailed and sharing your own experiences. It really does depend a lot on your players. You struck a nice note when you mentioned how fun time and "brutally honest examination of depravity" don't go well together. It might surprise some that I totally agree with this...

We're all family and friends (my brother, my sister in law, her sister and her sister's husband), so this issue of DM fiat you're bringing up is fair but kind of a non-issue here. We're not going to get tripped up or mad at each other over something trivial, leveling up is just an occasional and...

Have never played with a party like that.

-I'm not at all sure we even agree all that much about what evil is. Which is fair. -It seems as if you're purposely being stubborn and refusing to admit that fiction authors make villain characters that are plainly different from real world villains. I don't know what I'm supposed to do then...

Lol why world build in such a way that you can't present more and different interesting villains for them to contend with?

-I don't see how anyone could ignore the mountains of evidence that villains in fiction aren't made to be the same as real world villains. And heroes aren't real people either. They're expressive versions of a person that communicate themes. -Oh so Stalin had super powers, a lightsaber, a very...

I'm not sure why you think of fictional villains along the same line as real world social deviants who hurt people. The real world doesn't have melodrama it just has drama. The real world doesn't have super crazy powerful guys like Darth Vader running around. In the real world, terrible people...

As "demonstrable" as everything appears to be, you would think it wasn't the case that people are presenting conjectural interpretations of the same facts. But that's exactly what's going on. Maybe there is a fact of the matter but from what I've seen here it hardly makes sense to form a...

Oh, I understood that much. Sorry for being unclear in that respect; I never wanted to indicate to anyone here that I felt someone was putting me down. While you're right that it's a fact players are going to think that way, it's a well established thing, that hardly makes it moot discussing...

Man I like you already.

Lol Paizo sells more books for a couple months and now years later it's like Pathfinder was more popular? There was a minute there in the hobby shops where we gathered to enjoy our Magic the Gathering and Warhammer and D&D, that it seemed everyone was into Paizo in all the stores. But even then...

Yeah there's a term for that kind of player. They're a wangrod. If you play with a wangrod you're going to have a bad time. Can anyone really expect myself or anyone else to take seriously the idea that anyone or even most people who have played an evil PC are wangrods? Then I'm a wangrod Bill...

The way you express yourself in writing really reminds me, not in a bad way but a good comforting kind of way, of a friend on the spectrum whom I was very fond of. She also sounded a little different when she spoke but was still eloquent like yourself.

What is it like for you? Do you have sensory issues like many others on autism spectrum (myself included)? What about other symptoms? The DM could approve a character with hyperacuity who sometimes benefits from their weird sensory issues and other times doesn't, e.g. contextual perception...

Hey at least it isn't the 20s. When the Spanish Flu came around people spent five years wearing masks and even literally being clubbed in the middle of the street by the police for not wearing one. So maybe it's not so bad as it could be, and you're right that CR and D&D don't have anything to...

So when the DM does evil... Is it silly? Or disturbing? And it just sucks either way? Does the DM have magical D&D playing powers that allow him to portray villains in a fun way and the players not?

One of my favorite players in the past, a buddy from New Zealand, made a character that was a wizard's soul trapped in a piece of bread. He had to use Mage Hand to move, and well... had attributes like a piece of bread. The ultimate bread... glass... canon? Edit: lmao wtf it turns out he...