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For my group (I did most of the DMing), we enjoyed 4e overall, and that included the setting. But it doesn't hold a candle to 5e. The computer game aspect of it turned off a lot of players, and that includes people who would have been fine with the lore changes. The text, the adventure set-ups...

Thank you for the clarification. I guess my friends and I just read all the books. Thanks again, that certainly puts things in perspective.

Were all the rules in the DMG? It's not how I remember. I am looking at the Basic Set right now, and it is all together. Again, not to belabor anything, but I really don't see the level of disfunction you see - especially between these 19080 DMs that brow-beat their players. But none of that...

That just isn't true. Basic, Advanced, and everything after actively engaged players learning the rules. I am not sure where you got that. Maybe one line taken out of context. I mean, they had an entire magazine devoted to players, giving them optional rules, races, inventory items, etc. Yes...

I would also like to add that while your sorcadin might be fine after three smaller encounters, the rest of the group might not be. But with a time push, that could also mean the sorcadin might have to play hero. I have found one golden rule while DMing: One min-maxer can make the group...

A few things: Encounters prior to the BBEG Lair reactions can be amazingly unforgiving to PCs Flying or invisible creatures with the big baddie Remember, the big baddie might have magic resistance Counterspell, silence, etc. Movement can sometimes really work against the PCs And sometimes at...

Good rationales @Zardnaar . I think Genasi. Also, to add to your number 5, I think shows like Critical Role do their part to make certain races more popular than others.

There is a divide though. The two are different. They have different roles to play in the game. They may be trying to reach similar goals, but they have different paths to get there. A goalkeeper and a striker may both be trying to win, but they have incredibly different paths to accomplish that...

I understand. But it doesn't clear up our differences. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Of course they ferry people, I never said they didn't. I said it would be ridiculous for the player to establish the lore that they, through their background feature, can get passage. They can get passage, but that passage is through payment. Not a background feature. I even stated in my example...

I am not arguing the extra work it would take (even though for some DMs it might be a lot more than you imply). I stated clearly, the player should ask, especially if it is the DM's world. I am not talking about arriving at Candlekeep or Neverwinter, which already have established lore. You...

Might be miscommunication, but your player question is still the same. Perhaps the DM is suggesting the player does not know about this port. That is half the adventure for some tables, exploring the port they do not know. If you are suggesting the player already knows the port, then I assume...

I always thought the idea of attaching feats to ancestry and class were the better option. Maybe let another class or ancestry take an outside feat at some kind of cost.

I loved Greyhawk. To me, it was grittier and more grounded than some of the other more fantastical settings. But, your bolded question - I have no idea. It seems the opposite of what modern players expect or want. Maybe I am projecting.

One can always make a diminishing argument and make it sound rational. (Your argument) The ranger doesn't need to exist because we have rogues. Just make the ranger a rogue subclass. The rogue doesn't need to exist because we have fighters. Just make a rogue a fighter subclass. The paladin...

For those arguing, here is an example: Stuart Franklin took the most widely distributed photo of the famous Tiananmen Square "Tank" photo. One man standing up to many tanks. (He is still alive.) If say, Banksy, decided to paint the Tank Man on one side of a building, and then on the other side...

You're right. But many times, it can work out like I suggested. Sometimes tables can take on a new DM. Sometimes they can switch a single player or a few players after the campaign ends. That is real life too.

Abyss has always interested me as a player. Not as a DM, but as a player, it seems cool.

It's even more fun to guess who is married to an art professor just by reading their posts.

I agree with you on easy and medium encounters. But for boss fights, even ones printed, I find this not to be true. I see DMs all the time in real life or on posts that have to "hold their punches" in order for the PCs to survive. I also agree with you that the CR system really doesn't hold...