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There are several potentially exhausting things in RPGing. While you might find resistance to change exhausting, someone else might find it exhausting to be socially pressured into change. Personally I find it exhausting to keep hearing people constantly unsatisfied by what they have to play...

I was just gonna say the same... It's not wrong to have realistic factions but the downside could be sameness. My usual preference is actually organized religions, for me they make the best factions because they can have wacky over-the-top borderline purposes (I mean... Ghaunadaur?) with...

I thought the same thing. And sadly, even I find myself sometimes wondering... should I ask a question on ENWorld where most of the answers will be off-topic, promoting someone else's agenda, or attacking the premise of my own thread? At least AI so far generally tries to answer the questions...

I played PbP in the past, and even ran one campaign. I played online live only a very limited times during covid years. Nowadays I only play in person.

Problem solving, tactical challenges, mysteries to solve, investigations to do, locations to explore.

Ok, I give up! Just quit the game and sell the books. If you don't want to lose the company of your group, consider catering.

At least I don't: I am mostly a DM, and when I have the chance to be a player in someone else's game, it is usually refreshing... whatever kind of game we play. For example if it's an investigation game then (finally!) I have a chance at trying to solve a mistery instead of the burden of making...

This is probably going to be a bit underwhelming answer but... When I have been undecided about what to run, I asked the players what they preferred based on just a few key differences such as: genre/theme, focus on what type of challenges, character level and expected length. Although I think...

Sounds like you really put a lot of thoughts into it! 👍

Ok! So do you play 5e and what specifically did you add or tweak to enforce a TWFer to have his hands occupied? Say for example that your TWFer wants to retrieve and quaff a potion, or pick up and pocket an object from the floor, then go back to TWFing. What do you rule to make it impaired...

It's a very good point. Although Dragons probably would not be confusing if they were all together. Maybe they never agreed on what is the purpose of the MM: to provide a reference during the game or to present options for adventure design and worldbuilding? Without a clearly defined purpose...

It's a very weird poll that compares apples and oranges...

Thanks for your insights, most of which aligns with what I think myself. But you could have just answered that you don’t use the sort of codified rules I am asking about. I want to hear from those who do, in order to understand how it works for them.

No, and I am not asking for suggestions. I am asking if someone does use some sort of rules for this, in which case they are welcome to tell what they are actually using.

That doesn't directly answer my question, but I get that you are playing 5e? So, in the context of 5e for you, are you using the 5e rules for how you use objects in your hands during combat strictly as-written, or are you using them only roughly/approximately?

This is not a subject limited to the current D&D edition. Every now and then I ask myself how the game would change if I introduced a more rigid "hands slot economy" (please feel free to suggest a better name) by which every character has strict rules on what they can hold or how they can use...

I do tell my players, and I have many reasons to do so! 1) Some players might have played it already with another group, or even DM it. Which could even mean that they would rather not want to play it again. 2) They might want to avoid casually reading information about the adventure ahead...

I always use this for background music and environmental sounds: https://tabletopaudio.com/ (was meant to be a +1 to your post @Vincent55 !)

The whole idea sounds very cool. I don't know if I personally would be able to pull it off in a satisfying way... I would probably worry all the time that I am not making the lich smart enough, and keep adding a backup plan to a backup plan until the lich is effectively unbeatable.

OK thanks. I do not see it and I think I know why, my bad.