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I'm sure. I disagreed with that approach when I started playing in the 80s and I disagree with it even more now. There are people on this board with very much that viewpoint (though I'm still not convinced the main one is not an elaborate troll).

Sure, but that's a BAD way. Perpetuating the cycle is never good! MANY, many years ago in a game I was running, One PC caused the death of another PC. The player of the killed PC then made a character specifically to kill the character that caused his PCs death. When that happened then THAT...

IMO, any DMing approach that involves "teaching the players a lesson.." needs to be eliminated with extreme prejudice.

Ah, you're saying the DM IS the problem bad faith player. It's certainly possible. But the fact is, the DM does have a different role/function than the other players. Part of that function is if a rules ambiguity dispute comes up, especially mid game, it's the DMs role to make sure play...

But then that player isn't a "bad" player, merely one who is interpreting a rule in their best interest (which make sense). Look, I get what you're saying, and I don't disagree. A DM CAN stop rules squabbling with "here's how we're doing this, moving on..." and as long as their doing so in a...

How, exactly, is a player acting in bad faith and trying to dominate the table created by the concept of Rule 0?

I didn't miss that at all. My point was that if it's other than that, e.g. a bad faith attempt at some kind of domination or the like, a rules clampdown won't fix it in the slightest. It's an out of game problem that will require an out of game solution.

Hence my point about good faith. If a player is honestly just interested in some kind of table domination? Then the game involved doesn't matter, they're not a good fit, at least at my table. But the point is, that's a social problem, not a game problem. No in game solution, Rule 0 etc. will...

We're talking about D&D here, other worlds, other dimensions and portals to those tend to exist. Heck my players are exploring Sigil and the Outlands - not only do they exist, that's kind of the whole point. If you have no interest in running what the player wants? that's also cool, but it's...

Who said anything about a rules exploit? Some players are just good at building characters that function exceptionally well within the guidelines provided. So what you propose (changing the rules to make an option no longer available) is like playing whack-a-mole. My solution to that kind of...

Then, yes, don't allow Tabaxi - and maybe encourage the player who like Tabaxi to try a hand at DMing.

That actually sounds like a pretty good development/ opportunity for a fun campaign! Really gives an opportunity for a "things are different here..." situation.

What does rule against the "bad" player mean? Does it mean the player's character is overpowered but legal per the chosen game and rules set? Can the DM overrule that? Should they? Rather than just having an honest conversation? Does it mean the player is caught cheating? If so, that's not...

Hence "a glimpse..." It's not really dispositive, just interesting.

Woops, That's because I thought it was under D&D beyond for whatever reason, but it's not. It's on the Wizards D&D page. Which would explain why the adventure is a downloadable PDF instead of on D&D beyond itself! Thought that was extremely odd, but didn't even question it much. I think it...

It's the free downloadable module under Educator resources in D&D Beyond.

Not trying to split hairs, but it actually sounds like they continued playing in spite of the made changes not because of agreement with them. There could be all sorts of reasons - They like the game on balance. They can't find an alternative. etc. But, I don't think continuing to play means...

Interesting. So far, very positively received. To be clear, I don't have any issue with it being more collaborative (though it's certainly a different take). I just think it's a bit vague as to good application, bad application, etc. Mostly because I'm not a fan of changing the rules to wily...

While looking at the educator resources over on D&D beyond, I stumbled upon WoTC's current (and free) intro adventure for new (and mostly younger) players Peril in Pinebrook. Like the starter sets this adventure has a rules primer along with it and a decent size section on how to run the game...

It used to give you a legendary bundle (ALL books released to that point) but I just checked and it's been pared down significantly ( to the core books plus a little extra). Still it does give something. You can access the educator resources here. I've found D&D beyond extremely useful for my...