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Your conclusion is flawed. Not all DMs are a monolith. Nor are all players. Some DMs are even players, and vice-versa. It is incorrect to suggest that changes to the game will be unpopular if they favour players, and popular if they favour DMs.

Is this where we start ranting about “kids these days”? I tell you, I was babysitting my 18-month old nephew and he had no concept of object permanence!

In 4th edition, it was slide. PF2 opted for reposition.

In 2014 D&D, diseases were in the DMG, so I suspect that in 2024 D&D, that will remain the case.

You don’t even play 5e. How could you run into this problem “all the time”?

If only there were like, some sort of skill that could be used to cure disease, like some sort of Medicine skill, that could be useful in this situation. Not everything has to be a spell.

I disagree. I find that having unlimited wealth and NOT being a raging sociopath is pretty fantastical.

The fact that you play the class is a very particular way has an outsize impact in your assessment. The fact that you don’t like boosting Intelligence on a sub-class for which it is the main secondary stat means that you are treating an extremely minor change “warcaster only works with wizard...

What’s fluff text? Where is it defined in the rules? Where does it say it isn’t part of the rule?

If you are applying “rules as written”, you have to apply “rules as written”. You can’t just claim that certain parts can be ignored just because they’re “flavour text”, particularly since “rules as written”, there’s no such thing as “flavour text”.

Pot, meet kettle.

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It frustrates me to no end that RAW means “ignore all references to ‘enemies dropping their guard’ and ‘moving heedlessly past foes’ “.

This post misses what the actual buff to the 2024 Eldritch Knight was: not being limited to the evocation and abjuration schools for most of your spells. I already have high AC and do lots of damage, why force me to double down on that? Now I can choose Divination spells to improve my out of...

I am a big fan of proficiency dice. I feel they have benefits beyond “increasing randomness” that outweigh any reduction in calculating speed due to our “meat minds”.

We had this problem on Pathfinder 2. Character advancement depends on an expected level of treasure dropping, BUT significantly, because “no magic marts” sale of magical items was fixed at 50% of the value. So, despite the DM arguing that he was awarding treasure above the recommended...

Fun random fact: movie distributors thought the movie Coco would flop in China because many of the characters are portrayed as walking skeletons. Instead, it was a huge hit because people found its themes of what is due to our ancestors and its portrayal of family dynamics relatable.

I don’t think that analogy tracks with the situation described. A better analogy would be “if nobody had issues with violent dogs when we started the campaign, but Terry just got out of the hospital last week after being attacked by a pitbull, maybe we drop the “rabid werewolves” questline.”...

Depends on the DM. For a DM that is flexible and open to player suggestions, I prefer minimal prep. It actively encourages flexibility and responsiveness to player suggestions. If I know the DM has trouble (or doesn’t like) incorporating player suggestions, then a salient level of prep can...

Bilbo was also a 2e rogue, which is why he failed at all his rogue skills until the DM gave him a blatantly overpowered magic item.