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One of 5e's greatest problems is overcorrection. (Which, in fairness, one can argue that that was a great problem of 4e as well. Not of 3e though.) In this particular case, they wanted to correct for both 3e's ridiculous height of bonuses (e.g. CL stacking) and 4e's breadth of bonuses (which, I...

Is it? Subclasses already existed in PF1e as "archetypes", which themselves grew out of 3e's "Alternative Class Features" and the like. They're just prepackaged, something that runs through almost the entirety of 5e (e.g. Specialties were going to work that way, but had to be abandoned because...

That does seem to be the logic, unfortunately. I have seen it enforced, yes. More than once, actually. Gotta love when the rules are so well-written that you have to elect not to enforce them.

I mean, they kind of had to rebuild the game from the ground up when WotC was doing 3rd edition. You yourself have more than once admitted that the 2e engine, as much as you approve of many things it contains, was cumbersome, disorganized, and unnecessarily difficult to use. Then, when 3e...

Sure, but that's because 3e (regardless of version) made SoS/SoD spells stupidly OP.

In fairness to them, 5e's designers never actually settled on what BA was about, and that was one of the (many) things they claimed it was about. Depends on what one is looking for. Personally, I think it has a kernel or two of good idea, but it was taken way too far.

... The firearms are already designed to not be better, Lanefan. They are just different from regular weapons. They aren't better. A pistol is 1d8 damage, only 20 ft range, criticals do x3 damage instead of x2 damage. That's it. A regular pistol is identical in stats to a longbow...except it's...

So every military professional working with a gun 150 years ago was getting a misfire about once every twelve seconds, causing an outright explosion which injured themselves and their allies every 24 seconds? Really, Lanefan? Really? This is absolutely ridiculous. This is not realistic. It is...

I absolutely 100% complain about crit fumble tables. If all nat 1 does is miss, I could not care less. Misfire breaks the weapon, and a second misfire MAKES IT EXPLODE. That should not be happening four times as fast when you have become one of the greatest gubslingers alive.

The gun doesn't get 4 iterative attacks. The user does. A PF1e gunslinger who is supremely skilled (level 16+) makes four attacks per Full Attack, because they are extremely skilled with gunslinging. As a result of this thing--arising out of their skill with gunslinging--they now encounter...

If I had to use an existing class exactly as-is without modifications, I'd go with Ranger. Witchers have a certain limited amount of supernatural power available to them, so it counts, even if it's a rough fit. If I could design a custom subclass specifically to represent it, I might go Fighter...

My point was not, necessarily, that you specifically are or were bad at pitches. The point was that it is a leap of logic to go from "the players did not follow the pitch" to "the players must be jerks who renege on their promises". There are other options, and a pretty straightforward one is...

I am a player in his games (have been for a bit less than two years now!) I have tried to keep my choices relatively constrained. We brought in a new player who did want something from outside FR for an FR adventure, but given it's already got an interplanar bent (Out of the Abyss), it didn't...

Perhaps let me rephrase then: In any other medium, at least as far as I'm given to understand, such a response really is understood as bad form. That's an artist being overly precious about their work--perhaps even being juvenile. "No I deserve praise for all the hard work I did" type thing...

Beyond that, the point of a "pitch" is to sell folks on a concept. If they do not stick to the concept, one possibility is that they're being disingenuous jerks who faked agreement and then immediately reneged on that agreement. Another possibility is that the pitch failed, that is, it did not...

Or, alternatively, a problem with the pitch. Just sayin'. That's also an option.

A complete non-sequitur. Whether or not it is pulling people in is not particularly a function of how casual-focused the game is. I am very much of the opinion that a game which is too casual-friendly is inherently going to do worse, not better. Casual-friendliness has its place as a useful...

.... Then what on Earth are you talking about in terms of the problem here? Nobody--and I mean nobody--I've ever played with has had some "fanfic", as you so derisively put it, which they want to subject everyone else to....with the sole exception of a couple of GMs...who were very clearly...

I mean, you don't need to convince me that that's a flaw, that's for sure. But this flaw, as you put it, is quite widespread.

Session zero is by definition before play actually begins. You specifically said: That means my character is not anything--no name, no upbringing, no relatives, no experiences, no thoughts, no feelings, nothing--until session 1, when play actually begins.