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As I said I don't hate them. I just have not had my socks blown off by them. I really don't see how they will really improve my game experience.

I don't hate them but I am meh about them. I do not like getting mechanical goodies for backgrounds. I think they can be a tool for newbies in helping them formulate a background. I can see them becoming like feats and skills some will be considered optimal and some sub optimal and powergamers...

Talk about wanting your cake and eating it too. As others have said that deity is usually meant to be in monotheistic setting. I could see using it in a polytheistic setting as these clerics don't believe any other gods are real. I could see it being an interesting role playing choice but that...

No I am not saying that your opinions are invalid and mine are valid. I have gone out of my way to not do that. Yes it is the DM table and it is right to do what he wants but I can have an opinion that he is wrong or being a jerk or whatever and choose not to play. Sorry I am not going to...

I think it really depends on why you don't like them. Is it because you feel they are to powerful, or they are to cheesy and don't fit your game or they break your ability to suspend disbelief there are valid reasons not to want them in your game. But I have met DMs who ban things because they...

From what you are describing it sounds like you do what I do for my homebrew you have a specific flavor you are going for. Also it does not sound like you are really out right banning things but reskinning them and changing how and when you get things mechanically. To me that is not the same as...

I don't agree with a lot of the flavor that WOTC has put into their classes or the flavor TSR did for some. Thanks to TSR making rogues thieves we have that annoying legacy where so many players think I have to play a rogue as a kleptomaniac. :) I thinks druids of all editions have the worst...

Hussar I know what you mean. If I get a long list of banned things from a DM I have never played with before I will sit down and talk to him and ask why. Because a long list sets alarm bells off in my head. In my experience a DM who micromanages his campaign world that rigidly will also usually...

Hussar I have mixed feelings about this. For example if a DM says I want to run an all human world then trying to convince him to let him an elf into the game does feel like player entitlement. On the other hand being told all the time no you can't play an elf in ever campaign feels like a DM...

I do ban depending on the campaign. In my homebrew Dwarves are not allowed as PCs. Elves can't do arcane magic they can do psionics. Humans can't do psionics. Half elves can do both arcane magic and psionics. Half Orcs are not allowed because there are no orcs in my world. My campaign is about...

I don't like the artwork much. At least it does not have those ridiculously long horns that look like the person should not be able to hold its head up. I don't like tieflings as a core class like half orcs they are the ultimate chip on the shoulder lone wolf style character. I would rather see...

That should be interesting. I enjoyed using some of the Unearthed Arcana in my 3.5 game.

I am on the fence until I actually have a good chance to sit down and play with the rules. What I played with the playtesting left me with just a meh feeling. But I think it will be hard to truly judge until I see the final rules in play.

I have seen arguments at the table over clerics and how the player interprets following their deity. I have seen arguments and some nasty ones over players who play rogues as lone wolves. Any class can bring arguments to the table depending on how that player is playing his character. I had...

I don't think anyone is wrong in this it is a matter of playstyle. I would not enjoy what DDNFan described because it is so rigid and does not take into consideration that players are not paladins in real life and in the end it is just a game.

I don't think it is polite to call what another DM does in his game silly especially if his players were on board for it. Again it is this all or nothing in the case of the example the DM didn't say that turning undead never works but that in this situation the chances of turning were not good...

I think you are being a little extreme here. I don't buy the whole do one slip and fall forever. What if up until this time this paladin has been brave has never faltered? He gets scared and all that good things he has done before is wiped out and no longer counts? I would definitely have his...

No I am not surprised. :) In some ways we approach the game the same and other ways very differently. In this situation I would most likely do something along the lines you suggested first. But I will be honest here and say I might do what the DM did depending on if I thought it would work and...

That is all true and at that point maybe it is time to take a time out and the DM and the player in question actually communicate about what is going on. Greg K did say that his player was fine with the consequence and that it was more of the player being afraid of being killed rather than...

That was my point that putting in a moral dilemma about orc babies gives some excellent role playing choices for the party if they like that thing. Now what the DM did in question in this game should be taken with a grain of salt he was 13 years old. But with a mature group this can be a chance...