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Consequences and realism is something superhero movies are pretty poor at. And dumb down audiences eat it up and keep on supporting the machine so Hollyweird keeps making the same shlock year after year. It's why I disliked Man of Steel. And it's not just violence, it's everything. There is...

Eric Forrester Joking aside the Methuselahs left are Valentino Garavani and Calvin Klein. Younger Generation being Domenico Dolce, Stefano Gabbana, Tom Ford, Jean Paul Gaultier and I'm sure a few others. Some have their kids following in the business - Donatella Versace and Miuccia Prada.

Elevating the roleplaying engagement of everyone else at the table is invaluable.

To be fair to @Minigiant BECM had a much smaller spell list and that was fine. You could use that for the PHB. I would prefer a greater amount of subclasses in the PHB instead of having to buy 2 more books for subclasses (Xanathars...etc). You could have spell creation rules within the PHB as...

That's actually a great idea. Beginners buy the robust starter pack with all the wonderful ideas therein. It is also more cost effective than having to acquire 3 books before play.

The experience I was referring to was solely with friends. So, when I made that comment about temporarily irritating about the inattentive participant, I mean it. It doesn't weigh on me - in fact it is more of a running joke that player A missed something or misinterpreted something. We all take...

I agree. Like I said tables have adopted a happy medium focusing on detail or zooming out as is necessary for the game.

Too much @EzekielRaiden. I have no stake in this. I'm not here to defend one style over another. Hmmm But I didn't know? I obviously never heard that? It's obvious my character would have done abc or notice xyz? This doesn't make sense in the fiction given lmnop? I do not like dealing with...

No gawds no! I was just making passing commentary of the perception skill being considered a player skill not a character one...generally, exceptions like the one you mentioned obviously existed.

But many of us did not play elves and thus the Perception skill was being attentive to the GM's words. Time moved slower, there were less distractions (cellphones) :ROFLMAO:

There is a different sense of accomplishment when the player solves the riddle, discovers the secret door or negotiates a tricky social encounter than just button mashing the Intelligence ability, and Investigation and Persuasion skills. In 1e-2e the idea was players pay attention to the GM as...

Out of interest @ECMO3 having played so long with the earlier editions have you made any houserules for your 5e games that carry some of the 1e-2e thinking? That's what I'm most curious of... I enjoy 5e because of the flexibility in bringing in some of the earlier edition concepts should one...

I tend to think of minions as the 3.5e templates

Star Trek: West Wing you say. So WWE in space?

Not just the mechanics but the entire 4e ethos was ignored because.......stormtroopers or something.

As this point there are too many versions of D&D to make the fanbase settle for one official version.

Yes, but - it is extremely easy to tinker with. You can easily incorporate things from earlier editions and even one's own ideas for how things ought to be.

I can certainly empathise with all that. I'm a fan of opposition schools in magic but there are also many other creative ways to narrow one's focus - some of which others have mentioned in this thread. One could really create a Tome for how to mold the arcane classes, ramp up and down the magic...

What do you have in mind - Would you remove iconic spells such as Magic Missile and Fireball etc? Perhaps tone then down in terms of damage-dealing?

For starters one can remove damage-inflicting cantrips...