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Well but it does not seam anything thats the thing. Thats just again GMs thinking they can decide what players should feel. No sorry but if a GM goes out of the way to make 1 spell not work, then I assume other similar uses of magic do not work if not its just annoying GMing. Either you make...

I dont say 4E had no non combat things, I say the fighter got screwed out of combat in 4E: He has literally 0 utility abilities which are useful out of combat. He has a bad skill list and the lowest numbers of skills. Also strength only has 1 skill and constitution as well (and that one is...

Any knight in any medieval movie or book etc.

Thats something we cannot know. Only the players know. Because players assume a GM is consequent and when magic does not work all magic does not work, why would they else remove one spell? Just to be annoying? And its NOT fun for players having to try through X spells to find the one which...

I think the problem is more that "fighter" is a general name, but the class is more specific. From the people you named for me only Gimli is a fighter (and maybe boromir and faramir but I would just call them minions/NPC/Useless). Argagorn was literally what the Ranger was modeled after and...

Investigating how the fork was stolen / trying to find the fork does lead into the railroad though, to investigate this situation, exactly what the player did not like to be forced into. If dismissal work, then again, the players choice was to use magic to get out of there, and "you need to use...

Its so not useful when GMs answer in such threads. Its like dictators discussing amongthemselves why their subjects should be glad about them... In the end the GMs will see themselves in the same situation, and of course say "oh if I would be a player I would like it", and the person asking...

This is not choice this is "guess what the DM wants to hear." The choice is "we want to get out of here". And using the specific tool for this is a logical way to do this. If the logical tool does not work, then its no longer a choice, but GM powerfantasy trying to make people guess the clever...

The choice with the wish is no choice, unless they know it exists. They tried a spell and it failed. Why should now this spell, which reproduces effects of other spells, work? Their choice was "we dont give a crap, we want to get out of here" and this choice was denied. Wish would be a...

How did the player arrive in the feywild? I mean they must have gotten thete in some way before being stuck? I would say something is a railroad whenever players have to do something not from intrinsic motivation (they want to do it), but from extrinsic motivation (they have to do it)...

This for me just makes no sense. 1. Why would the player who is NOT picking characters (so not affected by the limitation), limiting character choices? Its like if players would tell a GM they are not allowed to have female NPCs. Or not allowed to run ranged enemies. Making others life harder...

So you put a small increase of your enjoyment over a potential huge decrease of enjoyment of others "almost always". Also there is a huge difference in "find something enjoy playing" and "play whst you enjoy most". Also 1000s of games and 10 000s of GMs manage to make believable worlds where...

100% this. In every game many players will be annoyed if they cannot play class X with race Y. It also just feels like an arbitrary limitation, and I do not see any calue such a limitation adds. Having some Race/class combination feat is nice (like 4e did), since this can differentiate...

Well there was D&D Insider. But that was subscrption based not buy: D&D Insider - Wikipedia

https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Rules:Starting%20at%20Higher%20Levels "It is particularly recommended to start at level 3 if your group is composed of seasoned D&D players." For me this sounds as official starting level enough. "You can start at any level, but level 3 is recommendet". If...

But this to some degree is also sometimes just a problem of "GMs wanting to control everything". I have seen many complaints, like for D&D 4E, that for players it was too much tracking all player spells and conditions etc. But GMs do not have to do that! If you trust the players they can do...

Even if its not pirated, from popular RPGs you will find the stuff online for free somewhere, either in a wiki or some other form. (Digital tool etc.). Sometimes people even first look at PDFs and then buy them (of course this happens less when they suck). Honestly I would never buy only a...

I would not look at it as a dismissive comment for you, more that the poster is annoyed that RPGs are in general quite bad in making simple and complex balanced in a good way. (Or sometimes also just the perception of RPG players). In 5E in the end the more complex classes (casters) are...

Pathfinder 1 to Pathfinder 2 is for me a huge downgrade: PF1 (coming from 3.5 of course) has so many cool classes, so many crazy ideas, and PF2 feels overbalanced and boring to me in comparison. Too stingy (getting +1 or +2 as bonuses is just not interesting), not heroic with all the action and...

Well official starting level now is level 3. Level 1 and 2 are only meant as tutorial for new players. So this "story reason" does not come into play unless you have beginners and then its good to have a simpler complexity. And also flavour is free. You can call your subclass however you want...