D&D 5E Healing in 5E

[Emerikol]

Wow. You just reminded me that it's been over 35 years for me and coming up on 40. I do remember doing CDGs, but I no longer remember the circumstances either. I do remember a DM killing one of my PCs though (off camera). Interesting how a player remembers his PCs dying, but the DM often forgets (or at least I do) most of the names of the hundreds of PCs in the games over the years.

I think you are on to something here. My daughter who lived with me at various apartments when a young child only remembers one. The one where she fell on the steps in front and cut her head.

I do remember it happening but not the specifics of an individual case.

 

[KarinsDad]

As for forgetting, I've killed a few dozen PCs, but I can remember the circumstances of most of those, so it surprises me that others can't.

I can only remember the last one (since it happened a few months ago).

Memory is an interesting thing, but at my stage of life, I tend to discard a lot of memories (and other information) if they no longer seem pertinent. I would really enjoy having a near eidetic memory.

I actually enjoy going through some of my old gaming material and reading up on what happened and PC's names and abilities and such. I almost always go "Oh yeah, I remember that". But being able to dredge up those memories without the aid is nearly impossible.

 

[Tony Vargas]

As for "skill at D&D", no insult, but I've heard that sort of thing a lot from people who I've then played with and found actually they just had a very specific pattern of play that they used to deal with their usual DM, and that they couldn't handle other DMs the same way.

Sure, 'gaming the DM' is as much a legitimate skill as 'system mastery' (or powergaming or being a rules lawyer, depending on how you want to spin it). For that matter, modding a system to fix it's flaws, or adjusting style and tactics to work around those flaws, are also very real and legit skills that we long-time D&Ders developed over the decades.

Sometimes adapting to a new system (even - sometimes especially - a really good one), can mean un-learning some of those system-specific skills, too.

I don't think 5e calls for a whole lot of un/re-learning of my old-school DMing skillz. It'll be fun to give 'em a workout again.