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Bailing hay is hard work. Digging ditches is hard work. Picking tobacco is (extremely) hard work. Running a marathon is hard. It's been a hard day's night. I should be sleeping like a log. Do I need more examples?

I mean, pithy aphorisms aside, this is just wrong. The idea that you can be the top of something by only doing that one thing and not learning how to do any related activity is just not true. I'm the best guitarist I can be because I do nothing but play Van Halen. Heck, do nothing but play...

And yet, Bruce Lee traveled for years studying other styles and incorporating elements from a broad selection of martial arts traditions. According to the folks here, he should never have studied anything other than one single tradition and he would be just as good. He learned nothing from...

But, if that were true, and there was nothing unique about what others had learned from other games, then why don't you understand and recognize how the dozen or so specific examples you asked for work? You asked for specific examples of how things learned in other systems could improve a DND...

Yes please. Can I have some more?

And yet, virtually every MMA fighter, and certainly the best ones, incorporate moves and ideas from a wide variety of different styles and traditions. Heck, Bruce Lee did EXACTLY that when he created Jeet Kun Do. It's not like he only practiced exactly one form of martial art and never...

The fact that you have no idea how any of these things work is precisely the problem. I have neither the time, patience or energy to yet again try to batter down the walls of your self-imposed ignorance of other systems only to have you endlessly challenge everything I say. It's simply not...

From Ironsworn, I have adapted the entire exploration system from Ironsworn into my D&D game in order to make exploration much more exciting and fun. And it has worked very well. My Out of the Abyss game would be far less enjoyable for the table if I ran it D&D RAW as it was written in the...

Y'know, I was all ready to let that go. I really was. Then you had to go and keep hammering the same point over and over and, well, sorry, I failed my Will save. 😕🐟

I was noodling over this thread and something occured to me. Imagine a thought experiment. You have two potential DM's that you are possibly going to play with and you have to choose one. Both have about 10 years of experience running games. DM 1 proudly proclaims that they have only ever...

I would say so, yes. If nothing else, watching other DM's helps to become a better DM yourself. Whether it's learning from the great stuff they do or the bad. DM's need to get out from behind their screens from time to time. Again, IMO and IME and all that.

Oh, that would make me SOOOO happy. I realized that Primeval Thule is exactly what I want. The area is small, self contained with diverse habitats. The whole area is about 1500 miles in diameter (a bit less north to south). This is exactly the kind of setting I want. I am so sad that it got...

Wow. This was already resolved a couple of pages back. But, just to repeat, one more time: THE OPPOSITE OF BETTER IS NOT BAD. I know that this is a basic English definition, but, it seems like there's been a rather fundamental breakdown of communication. Every professional baseball player...

Being worse =/= being bad.

No. This is your interpretation of what I have said, but, it is not what I actually said. I said you will be a BETTER DM if you play other games. Not that you cannot be a good DM. The opposite of BETTER is not bad. You can be a perfectly good driver without learning to drive other cars or...

Reread the OP. That's why. Wow, I went through the first couple of pages of this thread from 2 years ago, and then the last couple of pages. Good grief, it's astonishing how fast this improved.

Heh. I probably rose a bit. I'm very very bad at not taking the bait. :D 🐟🐟🐟🪤

Sure? Happy to oblige. NOt really sure how you got "now" considering that I had clarified the point repeatedly, even within the post that was quoted out of context. 🤷 But, hey, whatever floats your boat. We are finally communicating clearly and that's all that matters.

Yup. when you cherry pick quotations out of context, you really can make them say anything. Particularly when you ignore the fifteen subsequent posts that further clarify a point. 🤷 On the other hand, the opposite of "better" is not "bad". You can be a better player (which is honestly what...