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That is totally fine, you are odd one out and are the one making the decision to leave. It is largely up to the group but if a group is largely playing to the narrative and creating world details, but one is not engaging that way are they damaging the experience and if so, how? If they are...

Given that the English fielded Longbowmen at 10 to 1 billman in the Wars of the Roses, I am not say archery was ineffective, especially if one had a lot of them. But is was not rock paper scissors either, where archery made armour redundant, which was the impression I was getting. It may be my...

Armour was pretty effective, otherwise they would not have spent all that money getting it. Is part of a pretty good series on the whole subject. Now try doing it on a battlefield where people are trying to kill you. Also run 40 yards and see how long it takes. I can walk 40 yards in 26...

You seem to have contemplated not inviting him to your games. What exactly is he doing that is spoiling your fun?

Mostly because it is underrated in movies and tv. Somebody above talks about shooting for joints but in my opinion, if they are that close, they are closing in and D&D aside one cannot really shoot in melee.

I do not see how you can get this from what you are responding to. It appears to me as a statement that some creators work in a niche that will never support them professionally, but they can still share their work.

This is your and your groups choice, Do you kick him out or not? I probably would not but work around him but I accept that other groups look at matters differently.

Some people are not good at that stuff. They may enjoying seeing it happen but cannot really partake. May be stop trying to push him and let him do his thing.

It appears, by their testimony on other threads, to be normal for at least one of them.

This has been getting heated and generating more smoke than light. To go back to the OP, having read the thread. In reverse: Both, neither and all of the above. There is more than one way to interpret the warlock pact. It may be a Faustian pact, an ongoing relationship or a one-off gift. It...

I have generally started at level1 but I also generally use published material. I am ameniable to to starting at higher levels Especially if asked. I tend to level up rapidly at the beginning anyway.

They exist because there is a demand for different caster conceptions. Their problems stem from the fact that wizard came first and most of its class features in spells. The Warlock has a better framework and it has got better but the sorceror suffers. IMHO, detect magic should be a soceror...

All true, I was giving an extreme example of the power disparity. There was still a lot of.considerations of rank, privilage and station to track. Servants and labourers had different experiences than farmers, tradespeople and burghers before you ever get into the graduations of nobility. We...

Most of us would not want to recreate actual history, people had limited agency in much of history, nobles could outright murder lower class people and get away with it as long as they could frame it in defence of their honour. Most games have a very flat social structure in compared to the...

Making Beyond a better tool for the users, the third parties and for themselves is something that they should be putting a lot of thought and effort into. As for a new edition, of course, you make a strong point but one of the things that really strikes me about 5e is that even though there has...

This depends on 6e, a 6e with no CC licence would not attract any third party support. However, a 6e that brought most of the fans with it would also bring along the third-party market as the WoTC D&D would still be the biggest market and the one with the most niches that a third-party creator...

Just wanted to add to my post, I do not know when it started but I remember reading that a lot of the farmers in western Europe that became serfs in the early feudal era were originally Roman citizens but their citizenships was conditional to remaining working the land they had been given. This...

That is a very astute point. The Romans reduced their dependence on slaves in the early empire period due the 3 major servile wars in the previous century (of which Spartacus was only the last). The with no major conquest in the empire era, slave got too expensive and the security costs too high.

Do not get too hung up on the labels, Micah has a version of D&D that he loves and calls "sim", whether it is or not is beside the point, but he feels that WoTC has been drifting away from his preferred style for years now and bemoans that fact and also dislikes anything he perceives supports...

I read that line and went "a wha de wha? and a who?" I know i could look them up but I have not had my coffee yet.