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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...

Well, essentially, that's the answer. It happened because of "mysterious reasons". ((Well, the reasons aren't all that mysterious - it happened because people want the map to look "right", not because they though things out in the first place.)) It's just rather frustrating because now I have...

I've always been a big advocate that RPG's as written are not complete games. They are essentially game creation engines - more along the lines of something like the Unreal Engine or other video game design platforms (if that is the right term). The game that I play at my table will vary from...

One thing I loved about the Scarred Lands setting is that they actually had an in universe explanation for scantily clad casters. Casting generated all kinds of heat - to the point where it would start to impose penalties on the caster if they didn't cool off. So, all casters (arcane casters...

No, it's more that some of us have heard about the "enshittification" of D&D for decades now and we're rather tired of it. Weren't you the one who started the whole "talking to conservative games is exhausting" rant? Well, this is a perfect example of that. No matter what WotC says or does...

Ok, that's just me being obtuse. :D Makes sense though. A more focused strategy. The downside being everything will be tighter and you happen not to like something, you probably won't have as many alternatives until the next project comes down the pipe.

One of thing that bugs me in a lot of published settings is that the creators just plonk down cities every so often just to make the map look "right". The Sword Coast is a great example of this - massive, sprawling cities - Waterdeep and Baldur's Gate and Ahm, just to name three - all "centers...

You're not playing the game right. Every single thing WotC does is unethical by virtue of WotC doing it. They could be finding homes for three legged kittens and this would still be painted as unethical.