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Well, let me give perhaps a slightly different spin here. Does the Fighter have to worry about whoever paid for them to go to Fighter school coming along and demanding back all the money they paid? Does the Druid get an avatar of Nature herself showing up one morning demanding service, or else...

Sounds great! A good thing to do with every group.

Whether or not it is common is, frankly, irrelevant. It's that the request being made is to be given carte blanche to potentially do this. It's asking for absolute power with zero accountability, and then being surprised when reasonable folks say, "Um, how about...no?" Unless and until you...

The 3rd edition Bard is what all classes should have been designed to match: solid, benefits from optimization but isn't ridiculously OP from it. Unfortunately, because it was in the edition that made being a full caster objectively the best choice, the 3rd edition Bard is simply left in the...

Er...that isn't à la carte MC? Because you've limited it to only two classes, and you've made it either a fundamental thing, or something you rebuild your character to use. À la carte MC specifically means how MC works in 5e and 3e: you can advance in any available class at each level up...

I mean, I think it's trivially obviously correct. 3e proved that GMs were ready, willing, and able to screw over players or their PCs at the drop of a hat. It's the other half of why the Paladin class was so controversial (the first half being the players who treated "you have an oath to be LG"...

In very simple terms: Because they know that that is a foot-in-the-door attack. Because players aren't stupid. They can quite easily see "This can and will be used to hurt you, badly" when it's dangled in front of them. So they vehemently speak out against it. Why would I invite the GM to screw...

Yes, and if that were what Zardnaar meant, then I would certainly grant that--and most likely would not have made that post. But remember, his point was that he claimed these people weren't just expressing their negative opinions, which is what a detractor naturally will do. His point was that...

Alternatively, the problem is à la carte multiclassing, rather than Frankenstein. Because the only other edition which permitted à la carte multiclassing had this problem, just worse because it had much more serious flaws than 5e has. It's emblematic of a lot of ideas from 3e. That is, à la...

You posted things that weren't glowingly positive. They aren't the same thing.

yes, because the one and only way for someone to vote 1-4 is if they're a hater trying to ruin everyone else's day. It's simply not possible for anyone to just personally be of the opinion that 5e wasn't very good. Only people who are diehard haters think that, everyone else thinks it was...

Oh, there's an extremely good reason for this. Scheduling for a sufficiently-sized group of people becomes essentially impossible. To have this succeed, you need to get between nine and thirteen people to all have free time on the same day, consistently, every week/fortnight/month/whatever...

The median is almost entirely immune to this effect, which is why I listed both mean and median. To sway the median by even one point, you would need to have sixteen people all vote 6-or-less. That's about a 15% increase in the number of voting people, just to shift it one point. To shift it...

In fairness to those LoL players, there is a way in which the correct definition gets used so frequently, that it begins to get used in a more efficient way which treats the word as a state of being rather than an evolving space in which characters can be located. That is, "This character in...

At least as of when I started writing this, the mean review is 6.42, while the median is 7. (I have ignored the seven votes that were "no opinion" for these statistics.) Rather tepid response, all things considered.

In fairness, I don't think I've heard the phrase "goal and approach" before, so perhaps the baggage isn't as big? But yes, what I'm hearing in this thread and the previous definitely points in that direction. The other phrase doesn't have baggage, it IS baggage. The fact that its creator has now...

In fact, all the stated description does is avoid the already-mentioned clumsy GMing. Nothing new has been added here. I mean, why shouldn't there be a chance? By this standard, anyone who ever talks about their attack bonus is "metagaming" because they're talking about the game rules. The...

Same--but I saw more PCs die in 4e than I ever did in any variation of 3rd edition, including PF1e.

I am continually told that the utter failure of the 5e DMG to actually guide GMs at GMing has not caused even the tiniest bit of problem. I very much agree that if you make the GM's life hard people won't want to GM. But people keep telling me that the books making the GM's life harder isn't a...

I only run for friends, so this is mostly theoretical on my end as well. But I am quite sincere when I say I won't tolerate bad-faith participation.