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I'm with you on that. If my RPG turns into a math game, I'm out! I would rather stick a pencil in my eye than do math homework while playing a game I want to play for fun.

Never said it was. Perhaps instead of derailing this thread with political discussion you should start a new thread about that subject. As political theory is a thing I love discussing perhaps I will join that thread. Political Science is my favorite subject!

Again, technically, she could ignore the Constitution and reclaim her absolute power...technically!!! That's what a Constitutional Monarchy is, a Monarchy that is limited in power by a Constitution. The fact that it would be pretty much impossible for the Monarch to take back their absolute...

Oh I know all that stuff. What I was saying is that technically the Queen could take back her absolute power at any moment. The fact that it would be almost impossible to actually do is beside the point.

If the GM is not concerned with the PCs getting killed in combat, why include a GMPC to stop them from getting killed in combat?!?

That would end in either the players all leaving and forming a new group, or the DM being forced to sign the Magna Carta and running combat for the players. Absolute power can also exist simultaneously with an elected government. Here in Canada we have a Constitutional Monarchy. The Queen of...

I recently introduced my family to Ticket To Ride. It was an instant hit and has become a normal family night thing. We also started playing Uno and Skip-Bo on nights when the younger kid needs to go to bed early. It's fun family activities and a nice break from everyone sitting around not...

Why not just tone down the difficulty of combat encounters so the extra GMPCs aren't needed? I mean, as GM, everything is up to you so toning down the difficulty of combat is a simple choice you can just make. I once ran a decent length campaign for a single player playing a single PC, and not...

Nope. To be honest I'm really hoping that the plethora of famous IPs that are now being, and soon will be, published by different companies using systems that are completely divorced from wargaming and D&D will draw a significant percentage of the D&D crowd away. As I said, my style of running...

As I said, many on these forums would consider me a bad DM as I loathe dungeon crawling, absolutely despise minis combat, and simply don't understand the D&D only crowd. Much like you I despair at the notion of my style of roleplaying being lost to the world if D&D morphs in to a Gloomhaven...

Personally I can't stand NPCs who are members of The Party. The Party is a sacred organization that should only ever include PCs. Now, long term NPCs whom The Party interacts with on a regular basis is a different thing. If The Party travels the galaxy in a Corellian Corvette, then the crew...

System mastery is not the norm, at least not in my experience, especially with a game that is as complicated and complex as D&D.

But if this new player that has already read the PHB probably also did even the tiniest bit of research on the hobby simply because they took the time to read the PHB (something many veteran players can't claim). This extra exposure to the greater hobby would most likely lead them to the...

RPGs aren't boardgames, if they were, they would be called boardgames not RPGs. What if the GM wants to run a game where all the PCs are humans as all other races (as far as the PCs know) went extinct eons ago?

To this I would ask, what do you personally do to fix this perceived problem? Also, what exactly constitutes a bad DM? For me a bad DM is a DM that has only ever run D&D games. Or only runs published adventures. Or only runs games that focus on combat. I skimmed a copy of Xanathar's and was...

Common sense is so uncommon it should be a superpower!

Okay. Well, what you said was this... To me this means you have a problem with DMs finding players that want to play the kind of games the DM actually wants to run. An idea that really confuses me. I'm also not entirely sure why you would think it is bad for D&D. I think it's better to have...

Then what is your point?

I'm not entirely sure what you are asking. I will say that authority figures can be questioned. And as many rebellions the world over have proven, absolute authority is actually granted by the subjects of that authority. In RPG terms, all of the players can quit the game leaving the DM without...

Why would I want to run a game for players that don't want to play the games I want to run? This idea absolutely blows my mind. What makes you think that I would want to spend my leisure time doing something I don't enjoy? Now, if I was getting paid to DM a game I don't enjoy then it would be...