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If I like sports team X and my friend likes sports team Y and they happen to want their favorite team to win I don't go all "What kind of friendship is this? Why are you valuing your preferences over mine?". Same goes for if some rule were to be up for changing, etc. Friends can be on opposite...

Interesting post overall but I have to say; That's just putting up an unnecessarily high barrier to entry. I would have missed out on so many great experiences with family members, kids, friends and just new players if I had said "First, read these few hundred pages", heck if most people had...

Yeah, IME most of the the issues you mention are definitely not inherently bad; GM not reading the DMG, very few combats, GM referring to a player for rules advice, etc. Great games that are fun for the entire table can be run that feature those elements. IMO it sounds like there are a few...

That's the thing though, there aren't any "impossible" ideas or rather what is possible varies from table to table and game to game, it's ultimately up to the GM. I've seen players get to play; full grown dragons, giants, mice, yet on the other hand (even in the same game) not all the PHB...

Wish-bloat, coming from a 3e fan... interesting :)

Dead. Not just D&D but TTRPGs in general too. Yes, more people are getting into the game and hobby, it's cultural significance is the highest it's been for at least a decade or two, the RPG market has grown immensely in the past few years and D&D in particular has been financially very...

I watch the Dice Tower a lot, fun to see them playing some D&D. They seem to be having a good time but I think I can take a few things away from watching this both in general and more specifically about boardgamers trying ttrpgs. One thing I noticed is the GM is running a very combat focused...

Yeah, I guess I don't really see that for the most part. When I look at D&D like ensembles such as Guardians of the Galaxy, Defenders, Firefly, etc I really don't see very high charisma across the board, there is pretty much always one that could have it as a dump stat even. I think your idea of...

They make character sheet folders with slots for the cards too https://www.ultrapro.com/product_info.php?products_id=5051.

I have found the spell cards very useful, homemade item cards are a thing, there are templates and such on this forum IIRC. I would love to be able to buy some high quality monster cards for the MM, especially if they were dry-eraseable like the GF9 cards and had some spaces for bookkeeping.

Plus D&D Beyond marketing also contributes to overall D&D marketing (which seems rather limited in any conventional means, do they ever run ads?), the videos they are sponsoring on Youtube are top notch and in no way specific to their program.

Yeah, you seem like a very reasonable person, so you are probably a great player for a group to have. I guess what I was trying to say but never really did is that it's worth mentioning (IMO) how sometimes if a player can't think of a "good" way to describe what they want to do in-fiction, other...

It's funny how differently people see things, I had to re-read this part to realize that you were putting forth those questions from the GM as a sort of shutting down of the actions. To me "So how do you do that?" in whatever form is just a natural part of my favorite RPGs where there is a lot...

Lol, to some people I read about online my games would sound like Hell itself. Most of my best games we don't play with all the classes from the PHB, or races, or spells, etc. Expectations are set up front by the GM, they get to run the game they want to run, if someone wants to play in it they...

Yeah, I guess #2 is certainly true for me so I'll go with that. When I use monsters from the book I most often use them essentially as presented, and I don't have any problems (of course that's an absolute so it can't possibly be true, and I have players so of course I have problems). However...

Nah, that connotation isn't always there, you must be reading it in. Some people just find stuff like this interesting. I got pretty interested in how many board games sold at one point, and there was nothing to "beat" they were just becoming more popular (I suppose theoretically at the cost of...

Bookscan I think, it isn't perfect but tracks books being actually sold.

It can go well, yes. Except for all the BS about the GM ego and "his" pair of dice and the pausing and the description. I have run/played in sessions where the GM called for every roll, and it happened for a variety of reasons mostly to do with lots of description, roleplay and non-standard...

A band of bards makes for the best party, they are also very capable.

I did, the response, which came in a booming voice straight into my mind was; "There is a place in the introduction that explains how within my pages there lies a vast amount of treasure, it gives guidance on adjusting the amount of GP depending on factors that the GM can perceive." it then...