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To me, it just shows missed opportunities for the other classes. Why not create an obligations table for each class or subclass that you can use to give all of them greater responsibilities in the setting? It’s not that I have a problem with restrictions or abilities with strings attached; it’s...

I would only add a third point: if you do have RP hooks or requirements for one class, you should have them for all of the classes.

Yeah can you imagine what would’ve been said today if that happened?

Same here…I can’t justify BritBox all year round but I get on kicks and that’s usually when a free trial hits.

Yeah that was a good show. If you are into British mysteries, I also highly recommend Department Q also on Netflix, also renewed for a second season.

I think that was The Dark Knight Rises, but even still, regardless of whether you explain away why the streets are deserted, that’s also just not realistic. Something does get lost in the storytelling of action scenes when you make sure that the field is clear. Again, I go back to a movie like...

But remember that the XP for gold was far more than the XP for defeating monsters, whether that was by killing them or subduing them. So if the dungeon had a hidden cache of gold behind a mysterious third level that was only accessed from the stairwell, and your dwarf character happened to...

I wouldn't have a problem with it. Some players just do not engage the game in that way. I much prefer to meet the players where they want to be met.

I'm not going to buy your book.

Yeah, that's my stance too. I will buy a game when I know I have a very reasonable chance of playing it in the near future, or unless it's at such a deal of a price (like a HumbleBundle) that it's an easy pickup for me. But once I've reached that criteria, then a few hundred dollars is not...

Prolly a good thing.

Yeah, rat confirmed.

I would say that's the same for virtually any character. Wizards are apprentices, but apprenticeship didn't come for free - why does that never get questioned in games? Fighters probably received training in the military typically, but why is it assumed they have no further obligations? Cleric...

But you also had more spells that had little to do with combat or were useful outside of it: Push, Read Magic, Audible Glamer, ESP, Forget, and the myriad Detection spells. You had racial abilities like Detect Slope, Detect Traps, Detect Concealed Doors, Determine Direction, etc. High stats in...

Yeah, I think there were more rules in the early edition to support the idea that the game wasn’t supposed to be about combat per se - 1e and 2e have stronger exploration “pillars” than 5e, IMO. But if the published modules are an indication - people liked combat even from the early days of the...

This whole “I have the power to kick people from the table” thing sounds very boastful. Hopefully that’s not how people handle such situations in real life.

Oh, now I just smell a rat.

Just my two cents: if you can phrase questions or posts in terms of existing game systems, that’s helpful, even if ultimately you want to apply answers to your own game system. What isn’t generally helpful, at least to me, are threads about a game system that I can’t really see. There have been...

I think D&D has definitely picked a lane and survival simulation is not it.