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D&D no longer does. I'm pretty sure, just taking one clear cut case, that you realise that playing a classic Kender the way you were told to play them by the rulebook was encouraging you to play like a jerk. This was hardly the only one back in the day; @Oofta has also mentioned the...

Paladin falling rules were the main one. I also recall that both 3.0 and 3.5 had a few pointed notes in the CN alignment description including something like "he is not just as likely to cross a bridge as jump off it".

I know in my case I try to be the DM I wish I had as a player. Which includes learning from all the excellent DMs I've had (and there have been a few) and getting frustrated when the DM doesn't provide the sort of hooks I do when DMing. I also know I'm less good at being the player I wish I had...

Go ask @Alzrius (or possibly Emerikol although he's currently banned for politics). He was the one who decided that it was worth writing as criticism. Meanwhile I don't think that advocating of bad DMing practice that leads to people creating the sort of problem players they complain about...

Does it ever say what's needed to empower a warlock?

In the 2024 PHB there isn't. In previous PHBs there have been. Fortunately D&D 2024 has, despite the objections of some, left them behind. For some reason people seem to think that this is a problem rather than a vast improvement.

And you aren't just not part of the solution. You are trying to prevent the problem (of rules encouraging bad behaviour from DMs - which leads to players responding in kind) from being solved. A few would. Most needed to be encouraged to give the shocks by the experimenter. And would have...

No the Milgram Experiment wouldn't have yielded the same results; people don't normally tie kids up to electroshock machines. Neither would the Stanford Prison Experiment; when they reran the experiment with more actual restrictions and oversight on the guards it had a different result. You are...

Absolutely missing the point. A rule which tells someone to do bad things to people will be followed by most neutral people because that's what the rules and authority are saying. See for example the Milgeam Experiment or the original Stanford Prison Experiment. Bad rules and bad authority will...

It's only worse than a swords bard if you're trying to run a solo adventurer. The swords bard is I think the most solipsistic self-buffer of any bard subclass, deliberately spending their bardic inspiration on their own attacls. Meanwhile the dance bard is a team buffer and after level 6 is...

Three extra attacks per long rest at level 3 and four at level 4 is non-trivial. Three or four attacks per short rest pretty good from when you get Font of Inspiration at level 5. And remember you also get the unarmoured defence at the same level. Remember that you can also make an attack as...

DMs already have a lot of power even under the most consensus models. I'm just suggesting that with power comes responsibility.

Believe it or not 0.1% of the entire population is not any sort of statistical threshold. If we assume the playerbase to be uniform I'm waaaay past a 99% threshold for it being just luck. Which means that either the local environment is very different (which is possible) or that skill matters...

Agreed. But I believe that there can be rules (such as classic Paladin Falling rules) that encourage toxic behaviour. And these should be weeded out ruthlessly. Also agreed.

And if I run regular open tables and pickup groups currently in three different clubs where I'm the only common member and with new DMs and don't get these problems at what point does it cease to be luck? I don't believe myself to be that consistently lucky. Given this I have only two...

This in my experience is simply false. Toxic people will be toxic, granted. But toxic players who aren't otherwise toxic people? That comes either from a clash of the player with the game (until recently I was running for two groups which had only two players between them I might consider...

As I say I have regularly run and played at open tables. They are not a significant problem in my experience and the ones I have seen that are reactions to toxic DMing (or young teenagers). That group fun isn't the goal and that all powerful DMs are a good thing. Find? I've regularly managed...

Believe it or not as an experienced DM who has regularly run open tables and occasionally thrown out players I can tell the difference between the DM cleaning up a mess and the DM making the mess. Both happen. But supercharging DM authority beyond first among equals does a lot to encourage the...

Nope. I am saying first that what you are proposing in terms of DM power makes toxic DMs more toxic so they are emphatically not a separate consideration. Encouraging DMs to be more toxic makes the overall ecosystem worse and is not a separate problem. And the only "tyrrany of fun" players I've...

Who said it did? Without going into details there are numerous people in this thread I regularly disagree with. But one has gone back onto my ignore list as a consequence of the thread itself.