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Are you planning to completely rework the combat system and DCs to reflect the reduction then?

I mean, I don't think it could have done anything to help, that's for sure. Whether they were great otherwise, I can't say. They never really got that much chance....but it certainly didn't feel great to have my warnings brushed off or, worse, met with (what seemed to me like) extreme hostility...

I mean, it should be? The point of the game is to face challenges. That means the goal of learning to play, at its most baseline level, is learning how to make choices that improve your ability to overcome the challenges you face. It should be a hard sell to tell payers, "Okay, I want to...

The only reason I am is because another user here, Hussar, very kindly offered to let me join his group, and he has been nothing but a great GM, so I have no complaints. And yes, my experience with 5e has been miserable (outside of Hussar's campaigns; again I want to stress how distinctly...

Sure we can. It would be foolish to do so, but who are these Chess Police that are doing this? Remember, the game we call "chess" today was a controversial house-rule in Medieval Europe, mocked for being "mad queens" chess--but the house rule was incredibly popular, and today, it would be...

That's what a rule is. That's literally what a rule is. It tells you how things will work. Exceptions--if justified--always exist for anything. Always. That's the nature of playing games. Insisting that the rules are suggestions means they mean absolutely, positively nothing at all. They are...

I assume for your second sentence, you mean "why you would", rather than "why you wouldn't", so I'm going to roll with that. I would not play 1e for three key reasons. The "amoral murder-hole heister" playstyle, and the ruleset designed to incentivize that, isn't for me. I don't care for the...

I mean, IF those categories were actually consistent and well-defined, then sure. The big problem with them was that they weren't. They were, like so much in early D&D, the equivalent of sedimentary rock: something accreted from the grit of years, rising out of little more than pure accident...

Yes, I do agree that this is....difficult to understand. Because, in simple terms, this argument reads like this: "The rules were bad, and we disliked them. Since we knew the rules were bad and disliked them, that made it easier to ditch them and do something else. Thus, the rules were actually...

I should like you to check the calendar. Attempting to do so all at once, with a single edition, in one fell swoop, is simply going to implode the game. That's a fact. It took decades to change. It will take decades to reverse--if it can even be reversed. Changing something people have gotten...

Suggestions are cobwebs. Ephemera. They're literally less than nothing--because if it were nothing, at least the players would know that there were nothing between them and the GM's whims.

I think you speak in jest, but to paraphrase Picard, what you might say with irony, I say with conviction: Designers should have a little bit of firsthand experience with how to do the stuff they do. And I don't just mean in the sense of forcing them to fumble and fail at it. I mean in the...

I have interacted with Bloodtide enough to know what he means, having heard it numerous times before. Remember, he's the one who proudly railroads--as said specifically in this thread. Who is proudly "cruel" to his players. His word, not mine.

Keeping a promise when it hurts you is detrimental. I agree that getting a reputation for breaking promises can be a problem. But that's ill-advisedness, not the evil in general. I've frequently seen people fall down that slope. The thing you described above: people telling lies because lies...

I wasn't aware of that.

It isn't anywhere near as common as you think, and no, this absolutely is not as you describe. The rules being literally completely meaningless means it isn't a game anymore. Most people genuinely actually do believe there are at least a few rules that limit what GMs can do. That GMs cannot...

The point wasn't disingenuous players choosing X when they really mean Y. It was players knowingly choosing X, but then having reasons to reconsider, to change their minds, to do something else. But frankly, from what I'm seeing, the only thing that would achieve that is becoming more evil...

I'm not talking about the game he runs--nor is he, other than as a jumping-off point. He's talking about what 6e should be for absolutely everyone. He wants these principles to be enforced, unless the group invents their own thing separate from it. It couldn't possibly work as the basis upon...

You aren't really making your case here. Like...you're now telling me "oh, it could happen in a flash, but it's much more likely to take even longer than you're describing." That's not better for your argument. It's worse. It's literally conceding that your allegedly reasonable position has a...

This genuinely flabbergasts me. I have never seen this many magic items. Not in any campaign I've ever played. Period. None. Not a single one, not in any edition, not even in other systems. Never. It's...frankly kind of hard to believe this is true given I have, as stated, never seen this. Not...