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Again, nothing wrong with sharing preferences and styles and discussing how we do things. Someone might even use this as an opportunity to make changes to they way they run things. That's all fine. The thing is, it doesn't remain a discussion of preferences with people able to make their own...

This kind of framing of the discussion is what I really, truly don't get. Why would I have any interest in making my game more palatable to people who want a different game than what I want to run? Those people are welcome to go find or run a game that meets their needs; I have no interest in...

As far as art goes. there is an image in the Revised 2e DMG that made me reassess my view of thieves generally, although it actually got me thinking more about how I can build strong, tough thieves in Rolemaster than in D&D. This guy isn't just suited to skulking in shadows, he'll happily beat...

For the record, I find this an entirely reasonable position for anyone to take.

Right you are. Exponential XP scaling was a great feature of all pre-3e editions, IMO.

Yep. If one fighter stays a fighter and another fighter dual classes to druid, at exactly the same XP, assuming they continue to accrue XP at the same rate, when the dual classing character qualifies for druid, the other fighter will only have gained a single level.

No, these aren't things I think about only in retrospect, but are things I have actually thought about when actively deciding which games to play and all my opinions have formed after I had access to both games. In fact, it is probably safe to say that I am an utterly atypical example, which...

I think @AnotherGuy the nail on the head with their previous comment. Dynamic power levels that match the PCs aren't incompatible with sandboxes, but they are contrary to living world sandboxes. I don't think any of this is unique to D&D. You can have regions/threats of greater or lesser...

If it's an NPC name, I usually hope one of my players remembers it, or has written it down, because I probably have no clue and, even if I wrote it down, I won't be able to read whatever I scrawled on my tablet (if I can even find where I wrote it). For other stuff? Honestly, for a reasonable...

Again, to be clear, this wasn't my group. It was a GM talking about what had happened, wondering if other GMs have had similar experiences and looking for people's thoughts. Idle chit-chat in a discord. It felt to me like they just pitched the basic idea of a game, left the players to come up...

Seems pretty straightforward to me but, unfortunately, for a lot of people, it doesn't count.

If you're just talking preferences, then cool. It's clear you don't like certain GM styles. That's OK, we don't have to like the same things. Concerning? Now we've gone from preferences to moralising. I'm emphasising it in this conversation because GM power is what the conversation is about...

They weren't my players. But choosing to play a game other than a Viking one is exactly the solution I arrived at, assuming everyone remained adamant they didn't want to play Vikings. If it was my group, we would not have reached the point where everyone was presenting characters and none were...

This thread probably contains at least a thousand posts where various people, including me, have pointed out that no, they can't. If this point isn't already clear, it never will be. ;)

Again, almost every post I read from you is telling me otherwise. You absolutely have said things "like it" even if you haven't literally used the words I did. Declaring what? I absolutely do have right of veto for anything that goes into a game I run. I had a player ask if they could play an...

If my intention was to run a game about Vikings, and not about visitors to Norway hanging out with Vikings, I would most likely be disinclined to allow someone from southern Europe, Africa or the like. Whether I ultimately would or wouldn't would depend on all the specifics, who's asking, why...

You don't like GMs having the power to decide what is acceptable in their game or not. I do. The difference is that you seem genuinely upset that GMs like me even exist (and won't admit we're wrong and unreasonable and power hungry), whereas I am perfectly OK with you gaming happily with a GM...

Typically, I establish what the canon will be in a game I run, so I don't see much of a difference. As I've mentioned, my next game is likely to be set in the 1e Savage Frontier but, anywhere they differ, my vision trumps any and all official Forgotten Realms material. I feel zero obligation to...

Fine. My choice of example did suggest how little energy I have left for the argument you're making. Replace catgirl ninjas with storm troopers or Japanese traders or French nobles or aliens or Chinese animists or elves or Norse gods. I'm still a tyrant in your eyes and I'm OK with that.