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You posted things that weren't glowingly positive. They aren't the same thing.

yes, because the one and only way for someone to vote 1-4 is if they're a hater trying to ruin everyone else's day. It's simply not possible for anyone to just personally be of the opinion that 5e wasn't very good. Only people who are diehard haters think that, everyone else thinks it was...

Oh, there's an extremely good reason for this. Scheduling for a sufficiently-sized group of people becomes essentially impossible. To have this succeed, you need to get between nine and thirteen people to all have free time on the same day, consistently, every week/fortnight/month/whatever...

The median is almost entirely immune to this effect, which is why I listed both mean and median. To sway the median by even one point, you would need to have sixteen people all vote 6-or-less. That's about a 15% increase in the number of voting people, just to shift it one point. To shift it...

In fairness to those LoL players, there is a way in which the correct definition gets used so frequently, that it begins to get used in a more efficient way which treats the word as a state of being rather than an evolving space in which characters can be located. That is, "This character in...

At least as of when I started writing this, the mean review is 6.42, while the median is 7. (I have ignored the seven votes that were "no opinion" for these statistics.) Rather tepid response, all things considered.

In fairness, I don't think I've heard the phrase "goal and approach" before, so perhaps the baggage isn't as big? But yes, what I'm hearing in this thread and the previous definitely points in that direction. The other phrase doesn't have baggage, it IS baggage. The fact that its creator has now...

In fact, all the stated description does is avoid the already-mentioned clumsy GMing. Nothing new has been added here. I mean, why shouldn't there be a chance? By this standard, anyone who ever talks about their attack bonus is "metagaming" because they're talking about the game rules. The...

Same--but I saw more PCs die in 4e than I ever did in any variation of 3rd edition, including PF1e.

I am continually told that the utter failure of the 5e DMG to actually guide GMs at GMing has not caused even the tiniest bit of problem. I very much agree that if you make the GM's life hard people won't want to GM. But people keep telling me that the books making the GM's life harder isn't a...

I only run for friends, so this is mostly theoretical on my end as well. But I am quite sincere when I say I won't tolerate bad-faith participation.

I used the quotes to mean the label usually used, rather than the actual thing itself. What I would say, then, is that skilled play is not actually harmed in newer editions--it is simply something that the GM cannot achieve with minimal effort. If the GM wishes to provide a challenge, they...

Would you say you are of the opinion that "skilled play" is just a byword for lots of tedium, then?

Would you say your intent was more "putting certain kinds of traps into a random cave is blatantly unrealistic, and thus not something a novice player would necessarily expect, but an experienced player would know to look for things that are genre-appropriate but unrealistic"?

Limited to only 5.5e, there are currently only four since...we haven't gotten any more books yet. With 5.0, though, there were nine. That's rather a lot to ask development for, I'd say.

The natural state of being is ignorance. We only change that state by asking questions. I will always prompt my players to ask questions, generally with descriptions I hope are evocative and curious, inherently inviting, "But why would that be so...?" If something genuinely doesn't make sense...

Perhaps. I personally think it is a good and healthy recognition that what is often passed off as "skilled play" is actually itself simply another form of deeply flawed play, and that the hyperfocus on solely bad-faith-players, while ignoring bad-faith-GMs, is a common error that leads to...

Based on what was discussed in the previous thread.... I am apparently a diehard new-school fan (4e, 13A, and DW are among my favorite systems)...who demands skilled play. Which I have been repeatedly told, albeit not quite in so many words, should be a logical impossibility. I am also...

Fair enough. I guess, given how insistent and frequent the claims are, and how hard the lines have been drawn in the sand, I had thought there was more to it than "we ignored the stuff that didn't fit our perception back then, but have major issues with the stuff that doesn't fit that perception...

Indeed, everything I've heard about proper early-edition D&D is that making optimal choices was extremely strongly pursued. That's why the Cleric came into existence in the first place, because Sir Fang the Vampire Fighter had become unstoppable by exploiting optimal choices. That's why the ear...