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Disagree. Besides death there are a number of loss conditions to be explored...fictional and mechanical. There is an entire line on DMsGuild which is perfect for post TPK scenario - Doomed Realms. In fact I've used it as a precognitive element (via an ever changing map of the future) should...

What's your reason for this?

5e was advertised as having options that are modular. Maybe I'm over speaking but what you're witnessing, I believe, is much of that. I think the modular design space for 5e is largely unexplored and there were plenty of ideas from earlier editions that could use a polish.

I have to admit I find your D&D experience bizarre. And to be clear I'm not blaming you, it is just not what I would expect - even with strangers or hobby friends.

I think it is important to remember that mistakes do get made and hopefully the groups/GMs learn from them and handle things better in the future. I'm not the same GM I was 30 years ago, 20 years ago even 5 years ago. You can offer advice and encouragement so that the group/GM handle a similar...

Possibly. I suspect the older generation who are more experienced with loss are likely able to deal with it better. 51 year old, been playing all his life, 15+ years with me, we have a larger friend circle 49 year old, been playing all his life, 25+ years with me, we have a larger friend circle...

4e the gift that keeps on giving. :ROFLMAO:

As a gamist and a person who enjoys some grittiness I feel a True TPK (as you define it) should be an available option on the table but like @pemerton I do not believe it indicates an end of a campaign. As a fan of the players and their characters I will likely exhaust other possible loss...

People can discuss and appreciate The Cosby show without discussing Bill Cosby IRL. People can listen and appreciate the music of MJ without needing to go into the scandals (real or not) that surrounded him. People can read and appreciate the Green Lantern comics of Gerard Jones without needing...

Dungeon Masters Guide and Monsters Manual DIALS for (i) Gritty (Lower Starting Stats, Hit Point modification*, Slower Rests, HD usage, H-Kit Dependency, Touch Attacks*** etc) (ii) High Level (Encounter Design, Monster Modification, Higher Skill use, Setting Challenges, Terrain/Environmental...

@Maxperson audited the thread and it was found wanting. 😜

The very fantasy settings in D&D and other RPGs reflect a different morality than modern 21st century US/Western World. You cannot have deities (including evil ones) serving as known patrons of peoples and monsters (including supernatural creatures) with magic etc and think that moralities...

The fun I remember were the antics of my players and their characters. The fun thing I did as DM, I feel, was provide the platform week-after-week for us to play.

Yes, we had fun overall, it is the reason why we are still playing, but I can recognise that mistakes were indeed made by me, where I denied player agency in service of my own interest.

People often times look back in disdain or regret because perhaps in 30-40 years they have learned how do GM better, that mistakes were made back then, even while they were having fun with friends. Something will always be lost when you change your playstyle. The question is, is it better for...

Your question to @Hussar was not phrased if someone else would find things offensive. That is a shifting of goal posts.

Oh that action figure wants me to use displacer beasts again - brings the creature to life! :love:

I'm not @Hussar But generally speaking for my table, if a PC were to engage in an immoral activity within the game - it would have in-game consequences. It doesn't make its way into the real world and there is not concern for it occuring in the real world. The two most recent immoral acts...

I understand this thinking (and @pemerton made this point in one of the other threads and I do not feel he was wrong given his playstyle) but if we use the label in this way for all these games/adventures do we require further terminology, do you think, for more restrictive railroads either by...

So, I'm not sure how familiar you are with the AP but essentially each giant lord had a conch which the PCs needed only one of to proceed. They visited the obese hill giant chieftain who was trying to climb the giant hierarchy by consuming as much food as she could believing if she could...