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Well, we don't know how much a hassle the 18 months between the gate closing and the show's endings were. We also know that there were factions in the program that were in opposition, at least as far as methodology goes. So it's entirely possible that Dr. Kay's debacle in Hawkins enabled Dr...

I'm not yet a candidate for extra-large text, but I can sure say that the readability of the 5e.2024 rules was a nice perk of buying the new books over 5e.2014. I can understand an argument that doing a whole print run of large text rulebooks might be a tough sell with most game companies - but...

Not all conflicts and narratives are short term.

Having a player willing to push the envelope helps things happen - but some of those things aren't good in the long run. You've never played at a table where a player had a character do rash things that made things difficult for the rest of the group or the DM from time to time? Those players...

People contain multitudes. It's entirely possible to have fun during a session and yet regret some of the things that happened because of the headaches they cause for the overall campaign. And it's possible to have found a PC's antics amusing from one close-up perspective, but dumb from another...

Self defense, sure. But killing the whole lynch mob AND the whole village would be way beyond the pale of justified behavior. Mobs break up and scatter. Villages almost certainly have people living in them who have no idea what's going on. Killing the entire village is the act of a criminal...

Honestly, you could. You'd just have a line for your first attack, one for your second, then third, then fourth to incorporate the different bonuses.

I think I see it used too often for personal passion projects that are variations on other games, particularly D&D, that aren't really heartbreakers. If it's personal, mainly for themselves and the people they play with and not an attempt at breaking into the industry and distributing a game for...

If it works with the campaign, sure. If it doesn’t, we’ll see what we can salvage from the book.

In my case, do I have the book? Because that's my requirement as DM for introducing an option from a new book. If I don't have it, it's a no.

I dunno. The latter two are pretty common in Cyberpunk games I've witnessed or experienced. Attitude - there's usually plenty of it. Risking life and limb for a big score or takedown of someone on principle? Plenty of that too. And as far as Style over Substance - you can have style and still be...

For a lot of cases with a setting, it may be one that's been run with before - just with a new set of players for a new campaign. Background work... largely already done. One of the players in my group has run a series of campaigns over the last 20 years out of his own campaign setting. And yes...

In a tense confrontation like the Cuban Missile Crisis, being able to drop some extradimensional beasties on Soviet command and control could be pretty devastating. Trouble is, the Soviets would pretty much know where it was coming from since they definitely knew about the gate shenanigans in...

Public school kids? I was learning a lot more coarseness from my cousins in Catholic school than the public schools. Some religious schools may have been sheltered, but not all of them were. But in any event, the cussing in ST is pretty mild compared to 1980s teen life.

I think that's a reasonable description of a situation in which a DM brings a game idea and then recruits players from some, sufficiently big pool - such as online players looking for a game or players at a convention/game store. There, the potential players really do outnumber the DMs and so...

That’s not what I said. Rather, I’m not going to get in a snit about someone wanting to play a tortle because they want to have a robust shell - or more to the point, because I think that’s the reason they want to play one. I’m gonna include or exclude the tortle for reasons of my own with...

I don't think they're immune but they probably know what happens. So I think if a draconian is looking like he's in trouble, his colleagues might start to move away from him to reduce their own vulnerability - or even use the death throes to their advantage. "Oh, look. Chad got separated from us...

Maybe because they were inspired by Master Oogway in Kung Fu Panda? It’s not a DM’s job to second guess why someone wants to play a character even if there are some reasons a DM wants to curate some options for the game they’re proposing to run.

You're the crank making the claim. That burden's on you.

Tell your friend that the new job is making it harder to stay late for the game and you're going to have to wind down your participation. Tell him you'd like to work out a graceful, meaningful exit with him. Then tell him you'd like to keep up with him about how the game's going - like on...