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Thank you very much. I'd been hunting for that damn thread for years and I could never find it. :D

That wasn't the question I asked of the poll though. It wasn't "I don't like the campaign" but rather, "I consider the DM's I've had to be good/bad". And there is a very strong current of opinion that problems at the table are rarely the DM's fault. That somehow becoming a DM means that you...

Years ago, I polled here, although I can't find the thread now, what people's overall experience as a player was. About 25% rated their DM's very negatively. Which, I imagine means that perhaps your experience is bit more of an outlier than you might realize. I imagine that you're probably...

And that's fair enough. Again, those cities have reasons for being built there. ((Note, the Undermountain dungeon does not predate Waterdeep actually - it came later)) Even if that reason is, "A god declared that here there shall be a city". That's not actually what I'm talking about...

No, and I get that. But, at some point, it does have to pass the plausibility sniff test. I mean, sure, being a deep water port is great. But it's rather pointless when every ship you're going to see in the system doesn't need it. Being a hub of trade is fantastic until you realize that...

That is obviously the idea. But, I think if we could ACTUALLY get something like that into the PHB or into some sort of official book, that might get it over the hump. If players are expected to contribute between sessions, and know that up front, I think it would help a lot. As far as being...

That is so not my sub-agenda. My sub-agenda is to create an interesting story through my characters. I want my characters to suffer. I want my characters to LOSE. And that's the problem with the presumption that players don't want to lose. I want my character to lose all the time. But, in...

No, that's true. By the same token, you don't get raked over the coals EVERY SINGLE TIME for the next several years for not actually doing something. Dragging this stuff up endlessly to "prove" how evil WotC is is hardly the slam dunk some people seem to think it is.

The largest ship in the world at the time, the Mahmudiye, a 2500 ton, 249 foot long warship that carried 1200 sailors was built in 1828. It had a draft of 21 feet. That's it. 21 feet. Now, this is incredibly anachronistic. This is FAR outside the anachronism of D&D. A galleon? According...

Fair enough. Stupid gut. :D But, overall? Looking at the people in this thread and others in the past, of the people who most strongly advocated for top down game administration strongly correlate with people who have very stable groups who have gamed together for a long. Obviously there...

One of the problems I have is this presumption of the pyramid structure of trad RPG's. There's no actual reason for doing it that way, other than tradition. Imagine this system. ((Note, this is borrowed from John Wick's The Dirty Dungeon)) The group decides on a general theme - say a...

Honestly, so much of this boils down to personal experience. I mean, I haven't played with "forever-players" in years. And, frankly, the worst players I've ever played with are all forever players and I pretty much don't want any at my table. When a new player shows up at my table who has...

That's ... very untrue. 4e was extremely friendly to house ruling and kit bashing because it was so transparent. You KNEW what would happen if you changed X. Want faster combats? Cut monster HP in half. Want more realistic healing? Easy to do. Want a very low magic game with no casters...

Oh, sure. I certainly didn't mean any judgement on the choice. It's cool. But, my point is, your D&D and what is between the covers of the 1e PHB are pretty divergent. Never minding the bajillion table rule choices that affect things too. Things like using weapon vs armor tables. Or how...

I perused the difference between the two books and your casting system is totally different. You use spell point casting in one system and free floating casting a la 3e sorcerers for the other. IOW, that's a pretty huge departure right there from AD&D.

I know right? Legally trying to recover missing property by using a collection agency? The horror of terrible things. Attempting to change a contract and then immediately backing off and not changing anything, only to release everything under an even better contract? My goodness, what a...

Adding a later thought. The problem I have is a lot of fantasy writers pick ideas that sound really cool but, don't hold up under scrutiny. Take Waterdeep as an example. One of the biggest draws of Waterdeep is the fact that it's go a really deep port. The Sword Coast's ONLY deep water port...

All modern cities that didn't exist a hundred(ish) years ago and would still not exist if it wasn't for trains. Sure, if you D&D world has trains and powered ships, then fair enough. And, note, all three of those places are centers of trade between other countries. Vancouver doesn't do most...

It's interesting you pick those examples. In every example, the leader has a specific task (or set of tasks) that need to be completed that have very little to do with the enjoyment of those under that leader. A movie or theater production director doesn't care if the actors are having fun...

Why? I realize that this has been the general sort of consensus for years, but, why? Why not vote? Why must the decision be the DM's alone? Heck, my players generally know the mechanics better than I do. Mostly because of my 5 players, 3 have years of DMing experience in their own games...