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How is that different from a DM who refuses to bother to learn or use the rules to begin with? If the DM isn't going to play by the rules, why should he expect the players to do so? The DM isn't God. DMs who believe they are, are just jerks.

How you play the game is on you. Not the system. If you are annoyed that character creation takes a long time in more recent editions, it is because you are making things more difficult than they have to be. You can create a character in 3e/3.5e (or 4e) D&D in ten minutes, or many hours. If you...

No, it isn't. It is the fault of the player. You can agonize over decisions that you might make months from now or not. It is entirely your choice no matter the system. A system might make it "better" mechinically if you do make "good" choices, but worrying about that is entirely up to the player.

Except they aren't functioning as a team. They are functioning as people forced to act as a team. Individual initiative allows the players to work as a team if they can do so, which makes it a question of skill rather than a side effect of a game mechanic. That's not really the fault of the...

It would change the dynamic significently, yes. If Carter had been a schlub on Earth but had gone to Mars and it turned out that he, by virtue of being the only Caucasian on the planet, was able to handle the various martians he meets with ease, then there might be a case for finding the book...

The Apaches wouldn't even describe themselves as "Apaches". They call themselves "Inde". The designation "Apache" was coined by their adversaries, and may simply have meant "enemy".

Sure, but it doesn't establish somehow that Carter is an example of a white guy lording it over the natives, since he would lord it over pretty much anyone regardless of their planetary origin or ethnicity. Having the central character of a story be a collection of superlatives is standard for...

I've reduced the number of base classes in my 3e/3.5e hybrid game, making many of what used to be base classes into multiclass combinations or prestige classes.

Really. In point of fact, I do find some racism in the reading process you describe, the real question is which end of the exchenge the racism is on. Here's a hint: I don't think it was on ERB's end. The "lone white guy" comes to Mars and is stronger because he's an athlete from a heavier...

My salary is public record. This has never bothered me.

And your claims don't even hold up when you look at A Princess of Mars on its own. The "green martians as communists" is difficult to reconcile with the portrayal of the green martians just from that book (since all of the things I pointed out that run against that interpretation are present in...

It isn't new, but it isn't very well supported. Anyone who actually reads the books would fined the assertions made about ERB laughable. Laughable like these sorts of claims. As pointed out before, Carter is not the only white man on the planet. (For some of the stories, he's not even the only...

Well, first one wonders why you felt the need to dredge up an argument from a closed thread in which you were given an explicit admonishment not to respond to my posts. This is (obviously) a different thread, but it seems poor manners to refer back to an argument that has been locked by the...

Oh look, a non-sequitur with nothing to do with the issue being currently discussed. How interesting.

So, you didn't claim that somehow PCs had plot immunity in an adventure path because the "path cares about whether you surivive" as opposed the the "tough" manly megadungeons that supposedly didn't? Because, you know, I can get quotes. Sure you can avoid the traps. If you know they are there...

Some of the DDCs are linear. Then again, so are some of the old TSR modules (A3 and the Moathouse in T1 spring to mind, as do many of the DL modules, there were others too). Given that the DCCs intentionally seek to emulate the older modules, it should come as no surprise that some of them have...

Ah, the shifting sands of argument. Your claim was that somehow modules and adventure paths were gentler on adventurers than megadungions. When I point out that is not the case for many, you resort to asserting that the adventures are dull. Of course, of all the classic adventures, I'd argue...

No, an adventure path doesn't. Just ask people who've played through meatgrinders like Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil. I also didn't note the G1 series or the A series (for example) having indicated any kind of plot immunity for PCs. You may have decided there should be, but nothing in...

Yet this doesn't change the rate of advancement. You miss one treasure haul, you go find another. This is the same whether you are in a module type dungeon or a megadungeon. I know that back in the day me and my friends decided that random monsters and treasure were an incredibly dumb way to...

It can. You have yet to explain how a change in venue changes the rate of acquisition.