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I can't help but consider the impact of "sport" elements on computer RPGs. On the one hand, a lot of money can be made and whole new segments of the potential customer base are opened up. On the other hand, PvP and the race for "server first" raid boss kills have led to massive homogeneity among...

I can't either. I've read (I think) the entire thread, and I've never seen anything like that. Where are you hearing that argument?

I never said your job was to make the players happy, no one can shoulder that burden. I said your job was to present a game that they enjoy. They can be miserable and wretched and still enjoy the campaign, and in fact bringing a sliver of solace to their bleak little lives is one of the reasons...

He might have left this one out, from page 7 of the DMG, under the heading "Know Your Players."

I agree with that, that seems reasonable. That's basic DM worldbuilding, and certainly doesn't preclude taking player input into consideration. But then you go back to that. Alas. It's the DM's world, but it's not the DM's game. The game belongs to the group, and the opinions of the other...

I would submit to you that if more than half of the players want to play dragonborn that y'all don't actually want to play in Middle Earth. Although... if among the refugees from Laketown were a number of women who were pregnant when Smaug's blood rained upon Esgaroth and tainted the Long Lake...

I never got into minis and never used a battlemap for D&D (though I did for games like Battletech.) The closest we got was a rough sketch showing where things were in relation to other things, not really to scale. Then we started using Fantasy Grounds, and everything changed. It's so much...

I suppose, in your ranty little scenario, I chose the "become the DM" path. Still, I like your implication that I'm somehow whining because I don't agree with you. That's clever. I don't see the option for "whine and scream/write about DM entitlement being right, good, and the One True Way." I...

Kinda meant the exact opposite of what you seem to be implying, but hey... have fun with it.

Perhaps you and I see the transaction in fundamentally different ways. You seem to be describing a circumstance wherein one party, the DM, prepares an "offer" consisting of the world, the game rules, and his time and effort to implement those elements. The other parties, the Players, can accept...

To be clear, I'm not calling anyone a coward. That wasn't me, I'm not interested in pointless name-calling. I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea from you referring to that beneath a partial quote of one of my posts. With that out of the way, I'm calling a bull's hit on your "my way or the...

The quotes you provide certainly support the position that the DM is responsible for interpreting and implementing the rules, and even willfully breaking them when the situation calls for it. I'm absolutely in favor of all of that, absolutely and without reservation. My point is that there...

What's funny to me is that you accuse me of promoting "player entitlement" by having the audacity to suggest that choosing the rules of the game should be done collaboratively by the group, then go on to articulate one of the most over-the-top DM entitlement manifestos of the thread. Things like...

There seems to be a lot of DM entitlement here in this thread. Look, there's no doubt--as a DM, the world is yours. There must be a final arbiter of rules and lore, and the DM is unquestionably that person. However, the game belongs to the group. It is completely legitimate to limit the options...

No, that's the advantage apparently. You could take your offhand attack and still have your bonus action.

While technically the cleric would need to prepare a scroll, I would absolutely let the cleric help you write them in your ritual book.

I'll echo most of the answer Mistwell gave to this question. Without a feat or a house rule, I would not give a proficiency bonus to the attack with a shield. While a shield will, I think, hit like a mace, it is not actually swung like a mace. I would also like to state my opposition to those...

The reason rerolling initiative appealed to the group in the first place was that players wanted to have more control over when they took their actions. With static initiative, following the published turn order rules, you act on your turn, period. You can hold an action to take as a reaction...

It has been my experience that the PCs are the cause of much more unpredictability than the dice are, and they usually find annoying ways to exploit it to their advantage.

James Wyatt certainly pitched it, but he's a smart guy--his pitch to the suits would have included the fact that MtG has a large customer base that would be inclined to pay MSRP for a D&D book if it was a crossover product.