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Making a decision and finding a consensus are not the same thing. There are plenty of people unhappy with 5E's magic system, particularly in the way it overwhelms every other option at high level.

Yes, absolutely. A prominent video essayist who was one of the pioneers of the format recently got driven off of Youtube by a concentrated and extensive harassment campaign over a misread of single Tweet that was incorrectly perceived to be culturally insensitive, to the point where they...

Can be done, but risks disassociating the result from the inspiration. Which sometimes happens anyway, especially in a game with as many iterations as D&D. E.g. how much of the myth of Perseus survives in the entry for medusa or gorgon? This one I kind of mostly reject. I think there could...

Pretty much. I mean, I'd love to see a revival of Dragon and Dungeon magazines proper, but given how the thing with Paizo went, I can't see anyone on either side willing to entertain that kind of arrangement again. But yeah, use Dragon+ as a revival of the kind of content we used to see in...

It might be that your interpretation of power balance and Oofta's are at odds then. You seem to think that the only measure of balance is when the DM is forced into a specific action by the players. At least that's what your line of questioning suggests. But by that measure, the players...

I'm not a fan of those options either, and I don't think D&D can fully embrace either and retain the level of popularity it has reached so far. The former would fly in the face of one of D&D's bigger strengths: that by not being explicitly beholden to any one setting, it makes for a decent...

That's only a conflict if you're hung up on the idea that capability loss needs to be tied into taking physical wounds. That isn't a given in heroic fantasy. It's just as plausible for the fiction to be that the heroes take a beating, but push through the pain to be their best anyway. Not...

Having played games where taking damage makes you weaker (e.g. Legend of the Five Rings 2E IIRC), I'm perfectly fine with that. The alternative is basically a death spiral where the first combatant to take damage is at a severe disadvantage for the rest of the fight. It's a valid design, but...

On the first part, you're misconstruing my words. Again. On the second, If races available matters to a player, they should find a group that caters to their tastes. If the DM of the group they are considering playing with isn't entertaining that preference, then they can either compromise...

You're a bit off there. The idea is that campaigns in general being good or not has nothing to do with the number of races allowed, but rather the skill and effort of the DMs who run it. It's a highly generalized assertion. It doesn't mean that a given DM will do better with a style they...

So here's the thing. Of all of those tables, some are going to be well thought out, well run campaigns. Those will not be boring. Some are not going to be well thought out, well run campaigns. Those might be boring(though that ignores that groups can have fun for reasons unrelated to the...

Ah, I see the problem. Yes, if you just go with what WotC has published, most settings are going to come up short because WotC is terrible at world building, at least on the D&D side (I don't play MtG, so I can't speak to that). The TSR box sets remain the best official source of information...

Oh man, I miss the days when we could game every day. It probably plays into why 2E is still one of my favorite editions.

Hypothetically? Sure, that's possible. In reality, I've never once run into a situation where the entire table wasn't up for the game I was DMing, so it'd be a bridge I'd have to cross if I ever encountered it. But again, if they aren't buying into it, then the solution is for someone else to...

If all of them are, then one of them is welcome to DM instead. I

That's one interpretation. My interpretation is that I'd be making changes to allow it to fit in the way I would see a living construct working in the world I built. If the player is attached to the concept, it's something that can be worked around. If they just want an Ebberon warforged in a...

When I DM (though it's been a while), I generally do curated races and somewhat curated classes(usually more for balance reasons than worldbuilding for the latter), with the addendum that I am open to discussion provided that both the character and the party as a whole fit into the world I'm...

I don't really see the astral being a great substitute for the deep ethereal, personally. Like you said, the astral plane is one of thought. At least in AD&D, you didn't travel to the astral plane physically, but rather projected yourself there, and traveled by thought. The deep ethereal is...

Personally, I like it as a plane for the existence of the deep ethereal. Basically, the further you get from the material plane, the less the rules of basic reality apply, allowing for pocket planes with wildly different rules and general weirdness, like say the stray remnants of a spell that...

I used to be largely a proponent of the 2E cosmology because I love Planescape as a setting, but if I was to run a game today, I think I'd go with something closer to the Pactverse cosmology, where most realms exist either to serve a purpose related to reality, as a reflection of aspects of...