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There's something to be said about that mentality of "spells/abilities/items can only ever do whatever is written in the text". This is as much as a myth as the notion that combatants have 360º super vision active all the time. At least, the new PHB goes out of it's way to state that despite...

That's pretty much all of the problem, and that's why I am really sad they have (likely) not included variant rest rules in the new DMG

Or maybe stop smuggling things to FR. See, spelljamming already exists for people who wants to cross over campaign settings. With the current emphasis on the shared multiverse, there's zero need for them to keep cramming things into Realmspace. Also, to heck with Exandria, give us Mentir...

Sounds like a problem of scenario design then. The DM is supposed to set a timer so people start to die if the disease goes untreated. It's up to the party to come up with a solution for the scenario.

Not ironically, I share this opinion.

I have stated my opinion. Your experience seems to be very different from mine, to a point where a conversation wouldn't even go anywhere useful. I'm just moving along.

Not just weird, I would say it's downright arrogant on their part to think they could create "content" for a game they haven't even read all of the basic rulebooks.

What you mean by half-baked? I have been using those for a decade and they work perfectly fine.

You seriously don't see the need for the variant resting rules?

Wr have been doing that for ages, without the need for any special systems. This is just the natural development of any campaign with a fixed home base.

I strongly disagree. DMs are not professional game designers. Give me some official variants, please. It doesn't have to be exhaustive and cover every little situation, but at least something to tweak pacing and difficulty.

I see what you mean. Empowering the DM to come up with his own rules might sound like a good idea, at least in principle. That said, I really think the DMG should have some knobs for the DM to turn and adjust the pacing, difficulty and tone of the game. I'm talking about things like the...

That's my main concern too. Variant rules are the most useful part of the current DMG for me. It rather looks like this new DMG is players focused, since they are including a new magic items crafting system and the new Bastion system.

As I see it, the DM has at his disposal a difficulty slider he can adjust accordingly to the tone he wants for his game. If you as the DM insist on using the combat rules and movement for everything, you are just making things harder for yourself. This is also why I have a problem with the...

They should really save the in depth presentation for a proper Manual of the Planes. The DMG should have more universally applicable stuff rather than specifics.

Indeed. We should remind ourselves that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.

Who said that?

Nonsense! Everybody knows that real orcs are pig-faced!

Yes, I absolutely see that as a DM issue. The problem arises from seeing the whole world under the grided combat rules instead of shifting to a more free form adjudication approach when the situation requires it. If a group can disengage and retreat from conflict in the real world, that should...

What exactly are you suggesting here? Should we as DMs go out of our way to protect the players from bad luck even more than the system already does? Not a dig at you, I'm genuinely trying to understand the mindset.