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The bolded "So I guess this particular DM didn't want to spend any extra money on the campaign." Bit comes off rather judgemental of the GM and completely overlooks the fact that it could apply equally to any of the players who have spent nothing but could have. Change it to almost anything...

Have you seen any actual details about what wotc is calling a "campaign framework" or is this just speculation? That's a serious question because I don't know haven't seen any definition and don't feel the term says anything specific enough to guess.

That's quite the phrasing about the GM's role in a game.

What exactly is a "campaign framework"? That sounds like it could be anything from mechanical crunch to fit the baseline needs of particular campaign styles and themes to madlib style adventure seed skeletons.

There is a difference between fixing things and very slightly altering the wording in a thing in such a way that it is pretty much functionally identical in play. Even if one considers that deck chair rearrangement to be "fixed", it's not to a degree that justifies dropping the money on 3 new...

That's not a good reason for anyone to go buy them. In fact it's literally the problem TSR created for themselves by publishing an endless stream of pointless books few needed or wanted. Pathfinder got dubbed 3.75 because it provided significant improvements to the core without being a totally...

The ogl fiasco badly derailed the playtesting and did a lot of damage to the idea of meaningful change as opposed to "[many people] recognize there is serious problems with this that and the other section of the rules but some people think that the problem is fun so we decided to split the baby...

Either darkness is a thing to consider plan for and engage with or there is a fairly mundane item that effectively deletes those rules and everything they add to the game even more brazenly than "I've got dark vision [and we both know that the relevant rules are a waste of ink so I'm going to be...

I tried similar hoping to head off "ZOMGBADWRONGFUNIHAVEDARKVISION!!!" with some players who started with 5e when I tried to introduce meaningful light rules but the end result was less willingness to keep half way and more outraged resistance woven with loophole seeking for the sake of the...

Wanted to proactively address this before someone fires shots at it. Usually I see those knee jerk banning statements from folks who just blast with it before even asking what I was thinking of playing or finding out the answer would usually have been something like a wizard from Thay or...

I've seen more than one player spout that toxic line from 4e at my eberron tables. Unsurprisingly they tend to be the GM's most likely to be upset at the mere idea of allowing a warforge PC artificer PC or PC with eberron lore at their FR table in my experience. A place, not the same place...

Turn it around and consider why FR GM's don't like players showing up with a warforged artificer tied to one of the dragon marked houses, The Last War and elements from a continent that exists in a totally different setting. It's disruptive when the GM needs to say "Nonono back up. All of that...

It's because the important part is something completely unrelated to the fey ancestry. The Dhakaanii empire is the important point. The fey realm ancestry in relation to goblinoids of eberron(khorvaire even moreso) is about the same bad fit as it would be to focus a summary of Americans and...

I'm a fan of thoughtful charop but Optimization/build guides have become a problem for d&d because 5e tried so hard to streamline & simplify everything. Knowing how to optimize without being a disruption requires the player to understand the system well enough to metaphorically read the cards...

Eberron goblinoids are different to the point that they even have their own names for themselves Goblins were called golin'dar, meaning "quick people". "Golin" in goblin language translates to "quick," referring to both speed and intelligence. Hobgoblins were called ghaal'dar, meaning "mighty...

That would be pretty awesome if wotc did that with 2024 eberron stuff. Running eberron campaigns with tiefling players can get super annoying when they start loredumping Asmodeus and ties to planes/planar lore that don't exist. It would also have the benefit of making tieflings actually...

I want poke at that "establish silence" comment before I get to the rest of the post. That seems like you are suggesting that you interpreted my post as suggesting session zero should be a do now for all things or else the gm just needs to silently accept it when it was a post saying that...

Not really, these kinds of things are fair game for the GM and players to bring up at any point in play. I think that @payn kinda nailed it but "session zero" obligations have almost been fetishized to the point where the gm is expected to approach it with the skills of a nearly omniscient...

I have been that gm frequently (not specifically with @DrJawaPhD) It's far more trouble to deal with the RoLePlAyEr who thinks themselves the main character and operates under the shield of "I'm a RoLePlAyEr"