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If someone asks what the best approach to address one specific problem they're having with a game, and you tell them to just not play the game, you are not addressing their question.

Because you like.playing the game, and you don't know anyone else to play with? Or because the others on the game are your friends and even if one of them doesn't approach the game the same way you do, you still want to hang with them? There are so many answers to this question that it's...

Let's be honest - it's none of your business. I'm starting to find this thread a bit ghoulish. This is family drama being aired here only because of the identity of the deceased. If Gygax had owned a successful flooring company that the family was now squabbling over, no one here would be...

They don't undersalt their food. Restaurants OVERsalt their food. They cheat with more salt, fat and sugar than you need. Tastes good but is very bad for you.

"That sounds like a player problem not a rules problem" is the de rigueur response I believe.

You say you don't understand why anyone would buy the books. Someone gives you a reason why they would do it. You dismiss their reason as not being applicable to you Can you identify the issue with this exchange?

It's a full sentence. The other sentences don't change the fact that the first sentence is a truism.

As per usual, the post you responded to made no such assumption.

You say "be deathly afraid of", reality says "find it tedious and without purpose."

Yes exactly. But this is a perfect illustration of why claiming that certain things can only be seen as supernatural doesn't work. There are many ways to imagine things happening. This harkens back to the bad old days of people claiming that 4E warlords can shout someone's arm back on. How you...

I was 11. One day in school a kid who sat beside me (we sat at the back of the class) was playing Blizzard Pass behind a screen he made with his textbook. This was during class. It was captivating, and I went to the local hobby shop soon after and found a used copy of the Mentzer basic set, and...

It is It is. Dismissing new players because they're new is counter-productive.

Cool. Good thing I didn't say anything about only needing new players.

On the other hand, they also don't have any preconceived notions about how aspects of the game "should be." New players aren't going to be offended if magic missile requires an attack roll, for example.

Since magic is make-believe, deciding what magic can and cannot do will always be completely arbitrary. It's only a compromise if you have a predetermined notion of what magic should be able to do, in which case that's not the game's problem but yours.

There obviously is reason. To try new things. The older editions don't cease to exist. Since people can keep playing an older edition if they want, there's no reason not to try something new instead of just doing more of what you've been doing for a decade.

No one said that. "Every opinion will be shouted down" does not mean that every disagreement is shouting down. It means that among the disagreements will always be found some shouting down.

You and I play D&D very differently.

Did anyone do this?

Yes, and per my post, those people should expect flack for doing so, and they do receive it.