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That is definitely a major part, because friends are people you are going to be dealing with again in the future once the game is over, whereas you probably won't see these particular strangers ever again. But I would think that playing with strangers and playing online go hand-in-hand, as the...

I think an important distinction here to find out about would be whether it is playing online with strangers that causes more DMs to have players showing up not having read or concerned themselves with the campaign themes and instead arriving with a full-formed PC at the go? The thing about...

Every person is different as is their tolerance to change. :)

I was merely giving a reason why they might have chosen to do it that way. Whether or not you believe it or accept it doesn't really matter because the book has already been written so it is what it is and there's nothing we can do about it. How it's written is not going to change. Thus you...

If we are going flavor-first... the Monster Slayer Ranger is the closest thing story-wise to Geralt in my opinion. But if we are going mechanics-first... one would probably need to jerry-rig something like a Fighter/Ranger multiclass with the Magic Initiate feat, certain skills, and a very...

As far as the Dark Sun argument is concerned... I can certainly see how someone could make and believe the claim that 'WotC won't make Dark Sun'. Because if the person thinks that X, Y, and Z that they remember and used from whatever edition of Dark Sun they played with gets changed in some...

I don't know if I need more "universal" Faerunian backgrounds myself-- backgrounds from wider and more varied locations across the continent-- because that just means if/when I was to run a campaign in a certain area, the characters would all have backgrounds from places outside of that area...

Because if they didn't... a few bad actors would look for every loophole in the rules possible to find a way to justify the creation of hundreds of different items to sell for millions of gold pieces and basically try and blow up campaigns. WotC can either spend way too much time trying to...

No. Because that's not how improv works. The person who makes the offer makes the offer. They are establishing the parameters. They are setting the scene. And thus anyone who comes in and chooses to join in to the scene under those parameters should say 'Yes, And'. But remember... no one...

The expectation (at least for me) comes from 'Yes, And'. It's improv 101. Of which roleplaying games use that concept as their entire foundation. Roleplaying games only work when both the DM and the players agree on what is happening and going on. The players agree to accept what the DM...

Well, your game assumptions are your own. Thus while milestones wouldn't work for you under those assumptions, anyone else who doesn't play under your assumptions can work with milestones just fine.

I think a large part of the issue with the 'Mos Eisley Cantina' style of species availability is that most DMs as they are prepping a game have not done any real work in establishing within their world just how, where, and why all these various species live where they do and how, where, and why...

Do you only ever do exactly what the book or module says? Or do you use your own creativity and resourcefullness to add, subtract, or change things to make the product fit what you have going on in your game? I would not take you as someone beholden to only running RAW, so why you would think...

That's really how you think milestone leveling works and how DMs who use it run their games? Interesting.

Current Pathfinder 1E campaign I am playing in is still ongoing after 5+ years and we are Level 18. I expect we will make it to 20 before the campaign ends.

Either way works. Really depends on the DM and what their desires are for the games they wish to run. If a DM is open to all kinds of possible games, then yeah, the group of players all working together to come up with a theme for the campaign will work great. But if the DM changes themes...

This is one of the advantages of playing in a game with a DM who takes a more active hand in establishing setting expectations. If they care about species proportions and likelihood of appearance in the various adventuring parties, they will restrict options for players as part of their setting...

Agreed, it does not have the same solidity that XP counts do because you are beholden to guesstimating how long the quest you are on might last and how many of these quests equal a milestone. I don't disagree at all. But my point was really that there was at least something there for players...

But by the same token... if the DM is using story milestones rather than XP... players still get a "progress bar" of sorts because they know what their quest is that they are on and can usually determine just how far along they are in getting closer to the end of it. And depending on the import...

I am a milestone DM and do not have a set formula or knowledge of how many sessions it will take to level up... because everything can change based upon how much the players end up roleplaying. Especially in the early game sessions when we are setting up the campaign scenario, getting the...