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Believe it or not as an experienced DM who has regularly run open tables and occasionally thrown out players I can tell the difference between the DM cleaning up a mess and the DM making the mess. Both happen. But supercharging DM authority beyond first among equals does a lot to encourage the...

Nope. I am saying first that what you are proposing in terms of DM power makes toxic DMs more toxic so they are emphatically not a separate consideration. Encouraging DMs to be more toxic makes the overall ecosystem worse and is not a separate problem. And the only "tyrrany of fun" players I've...

Who said it did? Without going into details there are numerous people in this thread I regularly disagree with. But one has gone back onto my ignore list as a consequence of the thread itself.

As I have said repeatedly I have seen about as many terrible DMs as terrible players. And, like most people, I've played with roughly an order of magnitude more players than I have DMs. And the reality is that the terrible DMs are attracted by and cling onto with both hands the idea that the DM...

Those are exactly the same people who try to trash the place and are shocked, shocked when the guards are called. If you're a visible heretic that's a matter for the church to deal with just as if you're a visible thief that's for the guard.

There ain't no rules that can cure horrible people. But my experience is that there are rules that can make DMs acting in good faith into behaving like horrible people.

Which games do you think do similar things to Apocalypse World itself and try to e.g. run domain management rules plus gang control rules off a relatively light ruleset with success with consequences mechanics? For that matter which systems run long spell lists without exception based design...

Why not both?

I really can't agree here after the 2010s and the long list of Powered By The Apocalypse systems. Which are absolutely exception based and tend to be fairly small. DM's books are a D&D thing so far as I can tell.

That's the main point of the DMG, no? To teach people how to DM from the basics?

Looking at that list I see a lot - and I see a huge swathe of gaps. There seem to only be deities for adventurers there and not e.g. a Goddess of Hearth & Home or one of Harvest. The sort that most people would pray to for everyday things. In the Nentir Vale (which is very like a 2000s update of...

I doubt many will run in Greyhawk, but some will. And what I consider it to be is a "worked example" of a homebrew setting and tying adventures to your setting.

Agreed. And for all I may disagree with just about everything you favour in D&D and think that it's a good thing that that mode of play was left largely in the 80s (when computers were starting to lever their advantage that way) as far as I can recall I've never thought your opinions weren't...

This. I can say that watching NFL is not for me. But a part of that is that I don't then watch the NFL and I don't take part in discussions about NFL plays. And when I come for discussions about the NFL and why it's a bad spectator sport I come with facts like how long the ball is in play...

I believe reviews do have value. I believe the comments of people who have not read the book are of lesser value because there is always information loss through condensing into a review. And wasn't it you claiming that there weren't variant rules in the DMG? And I also believe that the...

I'm in the same boat. And one thing that I did use (even if it was a mess) that has gone is the monster creation guidance (either that or I just missed it). I think that's been put where it actually belongs - in the Monster Manual. Those of us who were at London ComicCon the weekend before...

So am I. But not that the cats are adventurers unless what they are trying to loot is glasses off tables.

Actually making the statblocks functional is one of the best improvements to D&D in the past 35 years. I mean I don't think that in reality anyone wants the sheer drivel that was the 2e Monstrous Manual back however much reading it makes them feel like they are a teenager again. I mean here's...

And if the restaurant made a new contract for fish after 25 years leading to regular food poisoning outbreaks and then stopped serving fish after 35 years you might remain irritated after 50 years. But it's not going to do much good.

Nope. If we are part of a team and I create a 5'*5'*2" board of plywood in front of you to conceal you you probably know better than to touch it, especially if I've created a gap at your eye level. There's nothing saying you can't create an object in someone's space or they must touch it...