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I've got to admit ... I don't understand people who play characters that are cowards, especially when it's to the detriment of the other players or it's every single character they play. Because it seems like almost every time I play (I DM more than I play), I have to run a front line fighter...

Typically when I would use the phrase "it's what my character would do" it's because I'm about to do something that as a player I know may be a bad idea but my character would not. A lot of times it's something like I recognize a monster when there's no reason my character would have a clue...

I run a pretty player-driven campaign but there are limits. I once told a player that their bringing in a character that didn't want to engage in the campaign everyone else wanted was like someone joining the swim team and then not wanting to get wet.

You said it felt like a video game because of classes, levels, hit points. As far as Vancian casting, that has more to do with Vance's work and the idea that wizards were basically artillery, a hold-over from the wargames D&D grew out of. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying you put the...

Where, exactly, do you think those videogames got their ideas for classes, levels and hit points from?

Just because I think it's a fun idea doesn't mean you're not crazy. ;) The centaur also does not need to have lycanthropy - it could easily be some other kind of curse. The big questions I would have is does the centaur know he's cursed, does he know he turns into a nightmare? I think it...

If you chose to use them, they were deadly. So we didn't use them - that was my only point. There were more options to insta-nerf, we avoided using them because they weren't fun. That sentiment - roll poorly and you're dead and there's nothing you can do about it - seems to be quite common so...

Depended on the challenges the DM set up. You could always have that pit trap that insta-killed the unfortunate character that fell into it or you could just ignore death trap pits and monsters that immediately killed you because it wasn't fun. Which is what we did. It's not like there's ever...

If you do decide to try 5e (and for what it's worth I'd just use the 2024 rules, there's not really that much of a difference in characters and monsters have been buffed) you can go from two extremes. First is that you just embrace gonzo adventure and go all in the characters being BDH (Big...

People have always had house rules. We did max HP at first as well and, IIRC, when you rolled for leveling up you had to get half or more. We also started using a variation of point buy in 2e, before that we basically rolled until we got something we liked and assumed the ones where we rolled...

My experience was much the same. When in doubt the wizard just ...

True ... but I would also mention that after a certain point if you could get the body back to town, you could likely get a raise dead done in return for some service in a lot of games. In some ways the more durable in the current version is also a bit of a myth or at least somewhat exaggerated...

I agree, but my players are still okay with their characters dying. On the other hand I also talk about it before we start playing and we discuss how lethal we want the game to be and I we generally agree that character death should be rare but (hopefully) meaningful. On the other hand when...

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One of the reasons I like D&D is that we can make the game our own. Even back in the day when other people were using 10 ft poles to check for traps and doing everything they could to avoid combat or if it couldn't be avoided making sure you were prepared as possible? We never did that, we just...

Other people have given some good feedback and I have some good news to add. You can try the game without spending a dime including, IIRC, Maps. The core rules are free and will give you a pretty decent idea of what it's like to play. So I'd advise you to set up a free account and check it...

Just need to figure out how to convince the giant to cooperate ... .

Two whole sessions a month? I'm lucky to get one.

I thought I made that clear - in no way am I implying anything about how other people play or why. It's more a question of why you choose multiple systems. Even if you just jumped from one game to another because you like a variety of rules implementations, there's nothing wrong with having a...