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My youngest had those! And Minecraft figurines, and a keychain accessory, etc. etc.

Both of these statements are true some of the time. Neither is true all of the time.

Amazing! You have some serious talent.

You're responding to someone who is no longer on the site in case you weren't aware...

Wowza! Some basic human social clumping behaviours at work here right? Like attracts like. Folks tend to socialise with those whose world views and attitudes are similar to theirs, regardless of whether it's a work, social, etc. environment.

Fork out the extra bucks for IMAX. The only way to experience these things.

A gnome, a rabbi and a priest walk into a thread...

I find there are not many truly horrible people, anywhere. Way more really good people than horrible, although I find most people are somewhere in between. There are some socially maladjusted people (who I find are far more prevalent 'when playing DM' than in the workplace... although I guess...

No, I don't have anyone blocked. Thanks for explaining!

I feel like you're not reading my posts, or at least injecting your own thoughts/prejudices/biases which is warping what I've said for you. "I have to be strong, and not let him bully me"? Wut? And as I've already repeated once, empathy is a good thing! The rest of your post was pretty good...

"Strong" people resisting their ways? What do you mean? I was just talking about not letting someone suck the oxygen out of the room and deprive everyone else of an enjoyable time. No hard feelings, but if you can't play nice with others, you can have a chance, but if you don't adjust, go play...

Yeah... I have seen this sort of self-absorption out there and it's a bit of a head scratcher. I think the world would be better off with more empathy and less 'me, me, me'. I don't think these folks are bad people, but I also don't think they realise how self-centred they actually are.

Yeah, I understand that. What I'm saying is that for the target audience I mentioned, having to make that choice is not much of a carrot. Those who want simplicity, as you put it, will be presented with an option of many feats. Just picking the one feat which keeps things simple requires...

Not really understanding your edit and apology here. I think you were spot on with your initial post. What am I missing? Bopping back and forth between this and work issues and conversations with my kids. I'll be up to date at some point, not to worry. Just talk to me like I'm five for now.

It is elegant and tight and sufficient... to you and me. But I think you might be applying your willingness to tinker to the general populace and drawing some erroneous conclusions with regards to the bigger picture.

Gross.

* high five* Yeah, I do like the DIY aspect as well. The good news is though even a tighter ruleset doesn't prevent house ruling and modding at all. Tinkers gonna tinker!

Things are a bit different than when you and I started playing! At this point, D&D is attempting to court a larger audience. House ruling may be fine for diehards (e.g. the population of these boards!), but for folks looking for a way to kill a few hours once in a while (i.e. the wider audience...

Yes, I understand the point you are trying to make. The argument from the initial post was that when you start deviating from the base rules/rules as presented/whatever you want to call it, you start losing folks. The idea being that having these variants is unnecessary and offputting...

This post is what's being discussed. The point being that when you have to start messing with the default rules to get a satisfactory result, you lose a percentage of your audience. The argument made in that post is that a significant portion is being lost; whether that's true or not is what's...