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I noticed it right away which is one of many reasons I didn't buy 5e. I think I could have house ruled surges away but everything together just made me throw up my hands.

My eyes were really opened when I found out that many people do not think of the mechanics as representations of real things. I've never played that way and until I came here I never even heard of the idea. Spells had to be memorized or "prepared" Spell levels were real. You might flavor up...

I think the changes to Orcs and Drow are just one of many examples that the folks at WOTC are out of touch with their players. Not every player but many of them. Was anyone going to quit D&D because Orcs were evil as they have been from day one?

Amen to that! I wish Marvel and DC would listen to you. I don't mind an Avengers world or an X-Men world. Teams can be fun. But we don't need a world with every single hero ever in it.

I've been buying a lot of GURPS products. I'm planning on running something in that system. For world builders it's got a lot to offer especially when even how magic works is part of your world building.

GURPS is a rock solid system and the game is more a toolkit. You might "design" a new game by learning GURPS and then constructing the type of game you want. If mechanics are not why you are designing but rather you want to bring a concept forward.

I want something clean and easy to read. If it's core rulebook, I want a paper version and I will pay more for a hard cover. I like art but it rates low for especially compared to what I see people saying. I could forego art easily for a 10 or 20 dollar reduction in price. But I want...

I think if people believed WOTC was doing it because the majority of people wanted it then they'd be more accepting. For example, if the local ice cream store added soft serve ice cream along withs scoop, the scoop lovers should realize that a lot of people like soft serve. Be thankful scoop...

I don't know if a game style name exists for mine. It's what I have played my whole life. Player skill including preparation. This means poor play will get you killed. Actor viewpoint though not always actor voiced. Third person is fine in many cases. No dissociative mechanics. Zero to...

I wasn't abused. My parents did ask me once about issues concerning the Satanic panic and I calmly explained the root of it and how it was not an issue in my game. And while I don't consider D&D dangerous, I am a bit hesitant to totally take the side of the kid in this case. His parents do...

I don't think it is even intended to actually be much of a playtest. It's more of an early marketing strategy. They want to see what hits with players and what they hate. So it's mixed

I agree that SR was a move in the wrong direction. I like MR. I'd probably just do it differently and make it more 1st edition like. I'd have a flat number that a wizard has to beat by rolling a d20 and adding his level. So an old fiend that had a 95% MR would have MR: 30. I'd roll that...

The PHB was 15 dollars in 1980. That price adjusted for inflation would be 57.46 dollars today. The 2024 D&D players handbook on amazon is 49.99 but it retails for 59.95. So pretty close in price anyway.

I don't doubt there are people like you but are you really a majority of players? I would have thought 80% of players still play with a group of friends but I admit I pulled that number right out of my hat. I'm sure there are those that do both so I'm counting those I suppose. FLGS game...

My general approach is...define as much as you can and when you can't you roll dice. In this case, I honestly think even if there were ten cities, I could manage 30 to 60 NPCs with brief backstories to scatter around those cities fairly easily. I'd give the player the list. That doesn't mean...

This kind of makes me sad. Don't you at least develop friendships from gaming? I can see starting out when you just happen to not know anyone but after you play for a bit don't you develop some friendships and try to game with those people next time?

Well it might be possible most of the time but is rolling something akin to a Streetwise roll that terrible. The fact something works without any chance of failure doesn't feel right to me. Even if the DC is 5 and 99% of the time you get it, there is in fact at least some chance something...

I think some actions defined for any class are clear cut well defined activities. A fighter knows he can attack and do such and such damage. A wizard knows if he casts a fireball it will have a well defined effect. Other things though are not as reliable. Most skill checks are not as...

I think a lot of the divide about gaming is how we experience the game. I've almost always had people in my games that I know. If I have a new player then he or she is the singular new player. Most of the time I have veterans. With this sort of play as your norm, I can see why we are like...

I suspect if I played in your game I would not experience those things. And I accept that if you played in mine you might not experience those things. There is something in how we perceive the world that affects how we judge these things and we both are wired very differently.