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I have played in many games over the years where sometimes your class abilities get nerfed for a couple of sessions. We were tapped in a dead magic zone for two sessions so none of our casters or magic weapon worked including magical healing. We were once trapped in hell and the clerics were...

Joe Liker first of all can we get rid of the term legally. DMs have the right to restrict things in their games. Now they need to tell the players upfront when creating characters. Though I didn't read that he stopped the spells he stopped him from getting slots back because of the way he was...

Hussar I don't think we are that far off on this. Every example you gave is how I would do it as a DM. I only limit things for flavor and balance. I personally hate half orcs but the only time I ever banned them was when we were playing a Middle Earth game. I think inflexibility can hurt the...

Talk about an exaggeration where are you getting the DM throwing down a red flag every time a spell is thrown? And players need to know when DMs are acting on good faith such as a DM telling players upfront that this game was going to be different and gritty and not for everyone. This player is...

That is in no way giving the benefit of the doubt. As others have said it is a brand new system with a bunch of new rules. It is very possible the DM didn't think about the rest rules until they started to play. Just because it is Roll20 does not change that and I think since it is an online...

There are plenty of reasons to weaken a class after character creation. If the character is not working out, if it is to powerful for the rest of the PCs if it was allowed in with the stipulation that it might be revisited later. So it is not necessarily bad DMing. The DM should talk to the...

Again you are going to extreme. Using the term dysfunctional is really extreme. Many players have been known to cheat on a dice roll I find it very unbelievable that a player who has been playing a long time has not done it at least once. The player in question tended to do it when he thought...

I think from reading the emails between the player and the DM that we need to be selective in what we take as face value.

I am curious to we have proof other than the OP that is what happened?

I have to question though the appropriateness of sharing email betwen the players and the DM of the group on another forum. As a player and a DM this would make me angry enough to boot the player out. Also as a DM I would not take kindly to having a player say I went to Enworld and every agrees...

You take things to such extremes. Either that are only know perfect people and only play with perfect people. The examples I mentioned are one aspect of an other wise fun person to play with. So instead of saying get out of my game because you do one thing that bothers me I take precautions to...

I am the one who brought up warlock and what I said was that in my campaign world of Vanderhelm I discourage warlocks because of the difficulty they face. The only banned races were dwarves and tieflings. And that was just for this campaign. I don't think there is anything wrong with that to...

I am not going to speculate on what the DM told his players since I was not there. Maybe he did maybe he didn't. But it was not just an issue in one game it said it was in several different campaigns. So there some level of miscommunication is going on. If I hate mysteries it as bad as this...

Bingo. My son who is in thirties plays DnD I have played in his games and I found that they are not for me. He and his gaming buddies love to powergame they love to play evil alignments quite often. This is not my gaming style at all. He does not really enjoy my games because they have to much...

I am one who believes that you need to trust your DM and if you can't then that is an issue that can lead to bad gaming. Now that is not saying that a DM can't abuse that trust and thereby lose it. But from what I have been reading here there seems to be a lack of trust for DMs who have not...

No that is not my example boiled down my exampe boiled down is not wanting something in a game that does not fit the thematic nature of the game iE gunpower. Secondly how is it teaching a novice DM to DM if you just dump a lot of extra classes and powergames on them? That would be like telling...

First of all I don't think anyone should give someone a hard time for not wanting to play in a certain game it is not betraying the group or a friendship. I don't think that every member of a gaming group has to play in every game either. Look say the group wants to play 1E in the classic...

But it was your analogy and the DM didn't say there were no mod rolls he said there were somethings that didn't get one hardly the same thing. And that is true about every encounter some work out great some not so much this could be a failure of the DM to explain things it could be a failure of...

No he is not being a jerk. If the DM invited you upfront and said we are skydiving and boxing and then you come and make a fuss you are the ome being a jerk. It not easy but it is not super hard either. It can be accomplished and I have known several people who have played through the modules...

Not nearly as bad because the game designers themselves admit that core gets tested more than the options and that they can't possibly test all the options with everything to make sure that they have not put something in the game that can be broken. You are making an assumption and you are...