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I would concede that the players are imposing their play style on the DM, I just don't find it to be as egregious an act given that the players already cede everything but their character's actions to the DM's whim. DM gets more authority and in exchange tries to tell a story that the players...

Our high-level game saw some slowdown from the 5-11 range, and then after that last power bump at 11 it picked right back up to the point where the DM had to throw absurd encounters at our party to pose a challenge to us, which resulted in us gaining a level every other session for levels 12...

The reason so many people reduce it to con saves is because it is physically taxing to try and stay awake beyond 24 hours, and the default rules do not include madness rules. If you wanted to make it more realistic (and only marginally more complex) you would have the player roll two saves, the...

You may want to re-read my first post on the topic, I specifically stated that I don't think the OP is a bully, I think he's engaging in bullying behavior. Do you think everyone who has every employed bullying tactics is a bully? No, a bully is a person who habitually employs bullying tactics...

Not wanting to get into a politics/religious discussion regarding this, but who you are attracted to isn't a choice, so I don't see how the player could impose their "values" (I don't think sexual preference is a value, it's a fact of a person's traits) in this instance. In this analogy the DM...

If you were to make it a bonus action, then on a monk it's worthless since martial arts already grants them an extra attack as a bonus action anyway (and they get a similar effect from being able to flurry already for 2 attacks on a bonus). If you are indeed designing it for a monk, then have...

I want to make a meat-grinder style megadungeon setting now and have that guy be like Cain from diablo, but know crap about the PCs he shouldn't (I love the idea that this total stranger is like, "Hey Jim, how's Marcy and Dale?" so the player can be like, "HTF do you know Marcy and Dale? How did...

How so? It is an example of someone imposing their view onto another person. You have given no reasons why it's a bad analogy, other than to say that it doesn't make sense. What trips you up about it? How is it a bad analogy? In the context of this thread, the DM is trying to impose in-game...

If you DM, then it's worth it if you want to run faerun in 5e to keep up with the story changes to the base setting for the new edition. If you just play, someone else will probably pick it up or it will somehow be available for you to reference when you need to (if the wording of a...

It's an analogy. When you compare like situations to illustrate a point by removing a specific context and showing how similar actions in a different context are similar.

I could have sworn there were too, but I can't seem to find them. For some reason I thought the number of days you could go without sleep before con saves was tied to your con bonus, and that this was outlined somewhere in Out of the Abyss, but having skimmed through the PHB, DMG, and OotA, I...

I would like to interject a bah-humbug here; riposte, parry, evasive footwork. Riposte and Parry are reaction maneuvers (by 20th you end up with 9 of 16 maneuvers, having 3 of them be basically unusable intuitively seems wrong to me) and evasive footwork doesn't rely on opponent openings. With...

The issue, in my view, here is that the DM expects certain out of character behavior from the players (he said himself that the issue is they're cracking jokes out of character). The DM can feel free to punish my character for in-game behavior all he wants, but he has zero right to control my...

Monk @ 1 Snag stout halfling Array - 15 14 14 10 10 8 > 10 14 15 8 14 10 > 10 16 16 8 14 10 HP - 11 AC - 15 Attack - main at +5 for 1d8+3 (two-handed staff) and BAA at +5 for 1d4+3 (and the d4 grows with levels) Edit: can't power-attack with GWM and quarterstaff, requires a heavy weapon, my bad...

Dude, you totally just helped me with the CoC 6th game I am going to be running. I'm not familiar with mystery plots all the much, and three clue rule is going to save my bacon!

I totally forgot that I still do that, like all the time. "Fireball! Gimme those reflex... I mean dexterity saves!"

Tool based ability checks - I never can remember to ask for specific instrument checks, and always ask for a performance check, or I'll ask for spot checks, or listen checks instead of perception checks. Basically, if there's a 3rd edition skill check to do something, I have a 50/50 chance of...

Honestly, if you're comfortable improvising, just read through the adventure a couple times, get the general gist of it, and then run it off the top of your head (barring NPC statistics which you can reference). You'll have to make up a lot less, if something seems dumb you're already in the...

A staff wielding monk halfling would be cool, you could snag PAM to get at-ops when creatures enter your reach later on as well. Plus, no need to buy armor, just pump dex and wis (items, asi's, whatever). Plus, having wis as a pump stat means your passive increases, which is totally appropriate...

Man, that's kind of depressing, for once in many a year, I'm actually interested in playing ranger now (I always felt that rogue was closer to what I wanted to accomplish) especially since the buff to the beast companion (I want a panther named Klaus, and we will wander the wilderness looking...