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No, that is not a statement of fact. "It's just a little lacking in unique flavour" is clearly an opinion, as it's clearly subjective. "PCs are like mayflies and are forgotten." The first part is a simile and the second part is clearly true if you take it literally. Page 7 of the 3E Forgotten...

That's not true; the hardback rulebooks, with exception for mention of the gods, are setting independent. (There are a couple setting based hardbacks, and the new Adventurer's Guide has a lot of setting specific material.) There are complaints, but we know that Paizo can't sell us Eberron or...

The extremely popular Lensman series, finished at its core by the 1940s, had humans save the universe; I don't know any other setting that broad, or that high-powered with people throwing around planets. The Golden Age of comics was when Superman and the other big superheros were at their...

Yes, but you can say that about almost anything. The difference is always in what criticisms and saving graces matter to the person who is liking or disliking the thing. Also, of all the other settings you mention, only Golarion is an ongoing thing. You've got to hate Mystara pretty badly for it...

That may be true as well, but what I stated is a well-documented psychological phenomenon; people who have sunk a large chunk of money into something have a hard time admitting its drawbacks.

On the flip side, drawing a local map and coming up with a few names is virtually no work at all. You can even steal such from another setting and add on to it piecemeal with homebrew or whatever other setting's piece fits your mood at the time. Ultimately, the difference between starting in...

Selvarin said just "the player" is the problem. I find your argument more persuasive yet more of a non sequitur. Players being unwilling to play in a setting is a perfectly valid reason to dislike a setting. And if players don't want to play in FR because they're deeply familiar with it and...

One post above said that a player literally rejected playing in the Forgotten Realms if the poster was only interested in running with a limited canon. You can choose not to listen to us about things we find problematic with FR all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that we find them...

I wouldn't use Middle Earth, but even in the stories, Gandalf didn't tend to swoop in. As for Star Wars, I think the Empire is like 10,000 light-years across; the sheer size of the thing means that even a world-destroying adventure is not noticeable on the full thing; I don't know what the speed...

Has HBO's Game of Thrones been wildly inconsistent because they've been ignoring how the reality of the world changes as each new RPG with a wildly different rules set? I believe Ed Greenwood said about 3rd Edition FR that the rules changed but the world didn't, that characters that now had...

And I've found that not to be true, that players take the basic assumptions pretty deeply and I find myself midgame trying to fix things too often for my taste. That simply doesn't work with the climax of the Zeitgeist Adventure Path or the original Dragonlance adventures. Hitting the...

"I think most D&D groups would enjoy playing the way I play more than the way the market has gone" is somehow not persuasive. In my experience, there are a lot of players who played 1E who now play Pathfinder; I know of one group that has existed for 25 years, with some members having started...

I'd say one of the problems that people have with superhero universes is when Thor and the Hulk don't show up when needed because it is an Iron Man movie. I think "just" meta-thinking might be a little unfair; there's points in both RPGs and movies where stuff happens because of plot and you...

That wasn't about whether people liked the change or not. It's about the costs of changing what people know and expect. It's about being caught in the middle of running an FR adventure realizing that a major plot thread depends on stuff you changed. It's about players assuming things to be true...

And all of that can backfire on you the instant you try and change anything. Comparing Golarion and Forgotten Realms: They've both well-fleshed out (whereas I found the Zeitgeist setting to be insufficiently described in terms of religion, for at least one point.) They both offer a variety of...

In other words, an orc is about CR 1 and ogres are CR 3. Huh. What were you saying about CRs can't work?

In whose theory? By what definition of "the same bloody game"? Virtually all major games have a large number of variations. There's dozens of variants on the game of checkers. There's huge historical differences on chess, and most best-selling board games have all sorts of varying expansions...

So "usually" the party will find plate mail, but the CR system is broken because it doesn't handle the case of 4 wizards or 4 fighters. Right. When A4 says "An adventure for character levels 4-7", does that mean all parties of levels 4 through 7? CR means the exact same thing, just on a smaller...

"Usually"? What evidence for this is there? I quickly looked at Rise of the Runelords and Curse of the Crimson Throne, and the best either of them had by the end of the first book (half way to 5th level) was one +1 breastplate. Whether or not you get a plate mail, and not just plate mail but...

That's rather unlikely, considering that rather specific thesis has never been presented above nor are we part of a group that pushes that specific thesis. D&D of any edition is less internally consistent than many other RPGs, for several reasons; other RPGs started by a look at the preexisting...