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No Tetrasodium, I'm asking if you have noticed a correlation between the immature player behaviour you keep on describing, and immature players.

Could be an age and/or cultural thing perhaps? I'm based in a town in England and the AL club requires under 16s to be accompanied with a guardian. Likewise the other large club I'm involved with is part of the university, so is already selecting for a certain level of maturity. The only times...

I think that it is likely that the "happy go lucky, jolly walking stereotypes, unoptimized characters, play that is found in the WOTC headquarters" is very similar to what is found on the outside of it. The optimisation community, whilst being heavily overrepresented on forums like this one...

Hierarchy of needs vs harm I would guess. While most of the playerbase doesn't care less, there are demographics that are traditionally underrepresented amongst D&D players for which it could be unpleasant or even traumatic. The numbers of people who would find graphic depictions of slavery...

Isn't that what I said? All weapons with the "reach" property are melee weapons. The reach property just lets you make melee attacks against opponents who are 10ft away as well as those withing 5ft.

I doubt it. - The current edition doesn't allow a warhammer to deal piercing damage when striking with the spike side for example. Masteries are even more esoteric. I'm assuming you mean mixing 10ft-reach melee weapon and 5ft-reach melee weapon? Presumably by choking up on the shaft and/or...

Is the issue the bonuses that you get if you pre-order rather than waiting until the product is out to buy? So people are encouraged to purchase early rather than when reviews and such are out? I think that I understand the concern. I have seen enough about the 2024 version to be satisfied...

We'll probably continue our current campaigns under the old rules, and then switch to the 2024 version for the future.

I think that there is potentially less conflict with the necromancer being a necromancer, and possibly more with the whole "fight fire with fire" attitude, if it extends to the necromancer using evil methods like torture etc. It is absolutely possible to play a necromancer in a non-disruptive...

Most of my AL experience is with the local club. There are generally around 5-6 games a week at an assortment of gaming shops, with people booking to play on a "first come, first served" basis. A DM might run a series of connected adventures, but there is no guarantee that there would be the...

There is a fair amount lot of exploration in many AL league (and other published adventures). Unfortunately, particularly in AL play, there are other factors: Because the modules are designed to fit into a 2- or 4-hour slot, there generally are only a few combats and a few exploration...

What I'd do is go for the suggested use of not giving spell slots, but giving infusions at close to artificer progression. I would also expand the infusions to creating consumables* and add others fitting a fighter and rogue subclass. More of an emphasis on expanding an item's original purpose...

Isn't contortion a Str check?

This isn't the first time I've noticed it, but I think there might be a translation issue here: Reynard is not suggesting that railroading is when the PCs are not guaranteed success, they are saying it is when the PCs are guaranteed to fail. - Such as when an impossible DC like 40 is set. PCs...

I think treatment of falling damage depends on the type/genre of game that you want to run. D&D is by default a fairly heroic fantasy, where higher-tier characters operate more by "action movie rules", and then can go into into full mythological hero. They are assumed to be resilient and capable...

That is why there was the move away from that style towards the Neo-Trad/OC style, and why the systems changed to incorporate that change. Players start to express their characters as people rather than pawns, with their own motivations, and start to value them more. Character actions, based on...

I think that you may have gotten the wrong end of the stick here. I believe the point that the OP was making is that in actual, practical terms, a Rogue is unlikely to have to try to unlock more than maybe three important locks in any given day. Therefore giving the rogue a limited resource to...

This is very, very good. I have a few quibbles with specific stuff (Versatile fighting style, Bulwark Iron Guard), but a log of these changes address the major issues that many people have with the Fighter.

Thank you. I'm mostly just relieved that it is the site that is borked and not my brain more than currently. Given I think this is the first time it happened, I suppose I should treat it as a badge of honour. Actually, given that the post I quoted was denigrating a large chunk of the D&D...

Ah. Is that why I'm getting notifications telling me that people quoted a post of mine, but can't find the thread that its happening in? I didn't realise that this was a thing.