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Of course everyone is there to at least partially entertain the other players. But I don't think the responsibility is on their shoulders. Sure, I think everyone should come up with an interesting personality quirk and play it up whenever possible to make the other players smile and laugh...

No offense but that's just AS insulting. You want entertainment? Get out of my D&D! You're doing it wrong! Watch a movie instead of playing my game that's not meant to entertain you! You are being an entitled brat! I've been playing for 20 years and the DM has ALWAYS been the one...

When I've been a player in those campaigns, I've felt that they are random, unconnected events. Player 1 wants to find his father and he is spending his time talking to contacts and attempting to track down his last known location. Player 2 wants to become the head of the thieves guild and...

I don't think that flying makes them "overpowered". It can ruin certain types of adventures, however. So, if you are a DM who likes to use that sort of adventure, flying can essentially make certain challenges completely moot. Before 5th level, without aarakocra you can safely create an...

Actually, there's quite a few other adventures that have encounters without scaling. Most of them are minor encounters with fairly easy enemies so it generally doesn't cause a problem. However, there are at least 2 adventures I can think of where the DM picks a number of encounters based on...

As I said, my point isn't that Drow are ACTUALLY overpowered in the books. They more or less die in the same manor everyone else does. But that the prose of the books likes to talk them up like crazy. 100 Drow could die like chumps to kobolds in one scene only to have the author going on and...

Oh, I agree. But RA Salvatore doesn't think that way when he writes the narrative portions of his books. For instance, there was a line in one of the books that said something to the effect of "Regis was extremely quiet, he was very practiced in the ways of stealth, almost as quiet as Drizzt...

He is an evil Drow that managed to escape his heritage and become a hero despite all the odds stacked against him. He's also a nearly supernaturally good fighter that stands up for the weak and innocent while fighting demons, dragons, and opposing the will of gods. He's also intelligent...

D&D has always been story based to me. We are playing the story of whatever the DM comes up with. The first game I every played was on a BBS where I was handed one of the Heroes of the Lance from Dragonlance and played through the Dragonlance Chronicles. The first group I joined in real life...

I think there ARE ways to solve this puzzle immediately. Some of them are listed above. A Paladin would be able to detect her as a fiend. If you suspected her and snuck into her room, you could probably find evidence pointing toward her. If you ask very pointed questions of people at the...

I'm curious about this. Isn't pretty much anything the PCs are asked to do by anyone a "quest"? If the bartender says "Hey, could you clean my pantry? I'll give you 5 silver", it's technically a quest. I'm not sure how an entire campaign could avoid having any quests at all unless the DM...

But you have to admit that if you didn't cut off the players, they might EVENTUALLY come up with new ideas. Like if you let them sit there for a couple of hours they might eventually come up with something new they wanted to try. Let's say this was the scenario: The PCs have talked to...

Isn't this the essence of virtually ALL mystery stories though? Take for example: A murdered body is found. Who did it? The knife has a symbol that incriminates one person. But that person has no motive. Someone else really doesn't like the victim and has reason to see them dead. But they...

Yes. Everything you say is true. Though, I'd like to say that I was running a prewritten adventure by WOTC. The adventure was designed to give PCs the hint that something strange was going on in town, give them just enough information to get them interesting in the mystery and give them the...

Yeah, I tried to have a talk with him about it. Multiple times in our group I said "Look, you don't know the answer to that question, you'll have to figure it out on your own." He gets angry because "That's stupid. My character should know about that or be able to figure it out." I...

Yes. But no one is annoyed as much as me. And apparently half the people don't even notice. After one session I was talking to one of the players at my table and I said "Wow...I was DMing that game and it was really frustrating to have to put up with his constant complaining about how hard...

I don't know, they swore no PHB2. They've also said their idea was to introduce no new classes at all. They've committed to a once a year major change to the PHB but the implication was that it would be released online as well. I think that a book called "Unearthed Arcana" that is a...

I think that the idea is that there's a difference between "keeping an eye out for anything out of the ordinary that could happen at any time" and "I have the time and patience to look over every square inch of an object". I think there's some scientific studies done about the fact that we use...

He helped write the rules. He knows what they meant when they wrote it. There would be no concept of Passive Perception if it wasn't for him and his team. So what it is and how it is used means a little more from him than coming from a random DM. Anyone can choose to change the rules and I'm...

I guess. I mean, one of my players DMs currently(ever second week we trade off) but our styles are very different. I'm very rules oriented and he likes to change all the rules in the game in order to suit his story. 2 others DM but only during D&D Expeditions with adventures written by other...