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Shaolin Wooden Men does not get enough love. //Panjumanju

At a certain point people will start walking away from this hobby just for the fact that its heroes keep turning out to be monsters. //Panjumanju

This is a straw man. You're trying to make the situation sound unreasonable, or some kind of slipperly slope to unreasonable, and it is not. Someone got caught being purposefully deceitful. They got in trouble for it, because this hobby is a community predicated on good faith. That's all...

Intense. It is becoming increasingly complicated separating artists from their work in a hobby industry where we try to reward community. What does Luke Crane do next, I wonder? //Panjumanju

You crossed the line of bad faith to accuse me of imagining things; that's text book bad faith. And you're darn right I have been looking for goal posts; your writing seems to be the enemy of clarity. As to your point - the idea that the GM, or potental GM has equal footing as the players in...

You are correct. That is a case where you wouldn't know what expectations players were coming to the table with. I have run maybe 100 games at various conventions where presumably strangers have read your little writeup to attract them, at least, but I've never run at a FLGS so I don't know if...

Now you're just operating in bad faith, so perhaps I'm foolish to continue, but, humour me...what I can only assume you are trying to communicate is that the GM should have so increased social clout that should bare the setup of a new game just because they prepared it, will be doing the work of...

You seem to have a real bee in your bonnet about this. First of all, I can't imagine preparing a game, any game, without already knowing your players would be into it. After shopping out new systems to play, the job of the potential GM (love it or hate it) is to sell your players on the game...

If you want to make some argument about the pervasive malevolence of toxicity inherent to (a certain kind of?) GMing, the onus is on you. I'd suggest that's beyond the scope of this thread. You should start another topic. Also, if you were trying to demonstrate you don't have a chip on your...

It sounds like you have a chip on your shoulder about GM authority. All RPGs come out of collaboration, involve discussion, and a continually evolving social contract. Sure. Players will always find a way to derail the GM's machinations; that's a good thing. But so far as a pitch goes; at very...

Without malice, I think your implicit expectation that the GM should accomodate whatever conflicting concept you bring to a game by changing a fundimental aspect of what they wanted to run in the first place is not very appreciative of the work that the GM has to go through to bring you a night...

Your in-game against out-of-game distinction does not make any sense to me. The decisions you make about what the game is going to be has a pretty huge impact on when you're playing the game. If you mean that the fact that few people want to GM shouldn't impact what the players get to...

I think we must fundimentally disagree. Yes, the GM does have the authority, because they have to do the work. If you have a group where multiple people want to run, and few people want to play, I suppose that would form a different dynamic. But typically there are more than enough players for...

We always did 20 as double damage (the danger of that can break up the sometimes procedural feeling of combat nicely) and 1 as lost or broken weapon. Keeps things spicy. //Panjumanju

There is no question here. The DM runs the game. If the player wants to play an elf they can wait for the next game. The DM is the one that has to do the work. I don't understand this (seemly resent) notion that players can treat DMs like video game systems. //Panjumanju

1) Do you feel D&D combat is slow (or "drags")? Yes. Unquestionably. I don't know how anyone could reasonably say otherwise. Relative to other systems I struggle to think of anything slower. 2) If yes, how do you address this in 5E? Play a different system. I'm sorry, but there it is. If you...

The whole "T-Rex all the time because optimal" argument sounds to me like they've over-thought the fact that they're really just bored of the game itself. They've reached the ceiling on how mush systerm-mastery they can do, and they're tired of PF2. That should be fine in and of itself, but I...

I'm making some guesses based on the tone of your post, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but are you looking for an Editor (with a capital E), a line editor, a proofer, or such a deep-dive editing commitment that they'll be grumbling about credit to their spouse? I think it's pretty important...

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