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If I have to choose just one, homebrew. But I see value in both. A lot of it depends on overall quality. A "so okay it's average" pre-written campaign is better than a similarly "eh, it's okay" homebrew campaign. But a really, really good homebrew campaign is usually better than a similarly...

You are objectively wrong. It's written in the 2014 Monster Manual. It is literally said on page 9: Challenge A monster's challenge rating tells you how great a threat the monster is. An appropriately equipped and well-rested party of four adventurers should be able to defeat a monster that has...

For sure, though not (strictly) for that reason. The bigger issue is that 5e, regardless of .0 or .5, simply doesn't bother even thinking about math when you're talking about CR 27 creatures. Like, by CR's own self-description, no matter how inaccurate that description may be, a "CR 27"...

I applaud the effort to be inclusive toward newer options, but it really isn't for me.

I am quite used to GM-centric arguments, where a behavior is morally unacceptable from players, but GMs doing it is not only right and proper, it's expected or even required. Doesn't make such arguments not incredibly tedious, mind, but I expect them.

So the GM is perfectly cool enforcing it on a group that doesn't want it? I don't get the asymmetry here. Trying to make a GM run a game they aren't keen on is the worst thing ever. But trying to make players play a game they aren't keen on is fine?

Seems to me the GM should take this as a moment to reflect, if they articulate a premise and genuinely no one actually adheres to it.

Then why in God's name Does bloody EVERYONE Who talks about the "social contract" Completely refuse to ever even gesture at this Unless I beg and plead and shout and hyperbolize? I've asked nicely. I've begged. I've done practically every damned thing I can think of to get people to give...

Then everyone should have built-in obligations, because these classes do not get anything anyone else doesn't. It's flatly unfair punishment for them otherwise. ....then what is the problem here??? You literally just responded to my suggestion of NOT singling the Warlock out by telling me I...

While some of it is venting, some of it is also irritation over the fact that the very concept that rules are tools, and thus can be useful in helping achieve some end (like, say, helping players and GMs be on the same page, helping GMs avoid likely problem behaviors, helping GMs identify and...

Why does anyone have to save the group from a crappy player? You make it sound like a hijacking. You have player agency. Just stop playing with that player.

How about the times you keep asserting that every other player is going to do that? That's why I keep going there. Because you keep saying that that's what the players will do, unless they have their benevolent dictator to save them from their jerk behavior. So who's going to save us from the...

I mean, having gone deep into the Game Application Mines, hoping to find even one game that could be a long-term home (prior to Hussar's very kind invitation)...yeah, there really is something of a "I just want to find a game...I'm really really really hoping I can someday find the game I'm...

And if I have a GM I know almost nothing about, I'm going to want more than "Trust me bro, it'll be awesome" for limits. Now that we aren't talking about friends, what are the limits for that power? Because all you're doing now is rolling the dice on whether the GM is "the loudest and most...

Then, frankly, I don't consider that friendship. This is serial acquaintance territory. If Sam can't respect you enough to heed both your interests and theirs, and try to work something out, are they even...like...actually your friend? Or are they just someone who happens to hang out in the same...

I actually haven't had that many personally super bad experiences. I just have a complete distaste for mechanical expectations being shoved into the zero-communication "social contract" where I will be expected to follow instructions that were never told to me and expected to instantly defer to...

Your quest to somehow force people to play multiple characters in any given campaign isn't going to succeed any more than your quest to eliminate multiclassing. Like the thing that is going to happen is people will just choose not to play, rather than choosing to play more than one character...

I like to keep the color coding, but either: Make the alignment thing a genuine inherent aspect of the cosmology. E.g., I have a proto-setting where dragons = angels (since we already have dragon gods!), and thus the entire "Prismatic" flight fell into being demoniacal "Chromatic" dragons when...

Because, in my experience, that is in fact what it leads to. Making the patron "matter" is, specifically, about attaching negative consequences to an exchange made with a powerful entity in order to gain personal power of some kind. Like...it's very literally "you made a deal with the devil...

Well, just for one of them, Classrooms objectively benefit from incorporating some elements of collaboration in addition to hierarchy. Teaching students to express autonomy and actively participate in learning, rather than being reduced to passive rote-memorization observers with no agency, has...