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No. They're a good fighter because they've earned experience, gotten better gear, and gained better abilities, including more hit points, damage output and accuracy. There actually are reasons that an 8th level fighter is a good fighter. Rather unlike, "He's able to make reasonable conjectures...

It just sort of happens. Beware of marshmallows.

My group typically starts at 3rd level and plays weekly. We level up every 3-4 sessions on average, with some levels taking shorter or longer depending on what happens in game. Then there are weeks here and there that we take off because people can't make it, holidays, etc. The group...

I really want the Shades, which could also be one of the factions.

It's not even obedience. The players always have the options to walk away from the game if the DM is abusing his authority. I have absolute authority over the game, because the rules give it to me. That doesn't mean that I exercise that authority commonly, or even uncommonly. It's very rare...

Because you are still wrong about what it means. Not one of us has ever required the bolded part of it at all. Nope. Still does not mean that no matter how many time you repeat it. Can =/= do. Nobody here abuses their authority in that manner. Oh, and it's absolute authority over the game...

I don't suspend any disbelief when I play, though. I know I'm pretending to be and encounter pretend things in a pretend land. Immersion helps make it feel more realistic, but at no point am I or anyone else I'm playing with actually pretending these things are real. For an example of...

Sure, but in Moria it was written in dwarvish, not some obscure runes that would take a history or arcana check to decipher. While dwarvish might be runic in origin, it's still a racial language that anyone who knows dwarvish could read. Moria is also a city, not a dungeon so inscribed guide...

That happened to my wife some time back. Both of us very much dislike asparagus. At an executive luncheon a few years ago the restaurant served some sort of seasoned and bacon wrapped asparagus. She tried it and really liked it.

I rather think there's a bit of a difference between writing the password down on an easy to use post-it note and sticking it to your monitor as a reminder to yourself, and going through the time and expense to inscribe runes that will last centuries that show the way out of a place you know the...

This misperception is why so many traditional DMs argue with you. What we do isn't even close to being one person telling a story, or forcing players to color between established lines. That's just not what we do.

There's no falsehood there. We are pretending to be pretend elves(or whatever race) in a pretend world. That's all true. It's all pretend.

how is hitting the creature with your swing and doing damage not succeeding at the task of hitting the creature with your weapon to deal damage?

If a rune expert was conjecturing that runes on a dungeon wall were directions out, I'd ask for his expert credentials back. Dungeon creators don't have any reason to write those kinds of runes in the walls. Dungeon visitors who were actually trying to be helpful would scrawl something...

Who inscribes runes to show directions to the way out? If the creators are still there, they'd just tell you to take the east passageway. If they are writing their guests directions out on their walls for some bizarre reason, they'd use a common tongue so people could read them.

What falsehoods are we pretending are true?

D&D can be played in pretty much any style. The 5e DMG when talking about styles prompts the DM to think about preferred style of play. One of the questions is... "Do you like to plan thoroughly in advance, or do you prefer improvising on the spot?" Improvisation is absolutely a style of...

I don't think any rules have been broken, but it doesn't make any sense to me. Why would the founders of a place filled with undead create runes to show intruders the way out and escape the undead? I could see a warning with runes that say something like, "Abandon hope all ye who enter here...