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Well clearly yes, I think it's safe to conclude that for some of us on this thread, 1 in 5 DMs are bad is a contentious take. Next question please.

Unscientific polls don't account for anything either. They don't adjust for errors, time of day, time of year, manipulation or literally anything else that can skew the results. Their results mean next to nothing. Fun for discussion though. My hot take is that some folks are simply harder to...

I know! The nerve of some people, interpreting words differently. It's as if sentences and paragraphs can mean different things to different people, which is preposterous....

Bravo. Well said. 👏

Agreed. They're astronomically popular, and their players have a geat time, but I agree insofar as their styles aren't my cup of tea. Too much exposition, not enough action. But I would never dream of characterizing any of them as bad. They're all fantanstic GMs, just not the ideal styles for me.

Uh, yes. I honestly believe that fewer than 25% of miniature painters are bad. I mean, just based on the fact that a miniature person is even able to hold a paint brush is amazing to me.... (It's just a game. 🤗)

If that's true it isn't D&D's fault.

Oh, I didn't mean to imply that I haven't let players play dragons, etc. in D&D. I have. It takes work to ensure that it's in service to the campaign and doesn't lead to other players feeling left out. It usually comes down to Spider-Man for me.... With great power comes great responsibility...

All over the game, all over the books, they talk about having fun and imagination. I don't get the feeling from any forward in any core rulebook from any edition of D&D that the authors took the rules as seriously as many of us do now. I think they'd be like, "You do you! Change what you want...

It doesn't because it's not true. 😂

100 pages and $3, about $8 adjusted for inflation. That's so much goodness for $8. That play-by-mail thing sounds cool. I do not remember it. "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" Play-By-Mail game, Entertainment Concepts, Inc., 1985.

If the gameplay is 5e then the gameplay is 5e IMO.

Well...I mentioned elsewhere on this thread, but I personally do feel that players are more often "the problem" than DMs. I know that's the reverse take that some folks on this thread have, but I think it's true. Reason is because as I previously stated, DMs generally have more experience at...

I'd even go further and suggest that it's essential to introduce new species and monsters. I mean seriously, what kind of sense does it make for a group of 1st-level characters to have every feature and tendency of every rare and uncommon creature in their world memorized?? Makes no sense to me...

Here here! Huzzah! Me too 100%. The care I know I put into it and the genuine desire I have for everyone at the table to have fun and really get jazzed and get into it -- I love finding GMs who put that kind of care into their own games, and there are definitely tons of other DMs who do that...

In my experience, allowing non-standard races isn't usually a cause for concern. But it's when someone wants to play a juvenile red dragon or a lich that we have to, like, parley about it.

Completely agree. It'll probably ruffle feathers to hear it put that way (not mine, of course; I dig it), but it takes a certain comfort being the "bad guy" sometimes, or rather being the referee (just like it does to be a ref in sports), to be a DM. But as the saying goes (hacked version)...

Honestly, I think the rulebooks for many TTRPGs (inc D&D) are so long, plus zillions of official supplements, that there's no way in heck most people would even interpret the rules the same way. The rules can't all be taken literally in a 350-page tome.

Kinda like the Banker in Monopoly, but the Banker isn't responsible for managing a very big world.... Mostly just Broadway and Park Place. Plus there's those condos and that jail. 😂

But sometimes "mistake" is in the eye of the beholder.... Yes, that sounded weird to me too when I typed it.