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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dave2008" data-source="post: 8509515" data-attributes="member: 83242">Well thank you this thread. I thought I would just take a look at your list and see where I compare to you.  For reference I stared playing in 1e/ BECMI in the 80's. I've played 1e, 4e, & 5e. I took a substantial break from RPGs between 1e and 4e (the game that brought me back to D&D).Me to. My current campaign has last since the beginning of 5e.Me to, with a caveat. I don't really run published adventures. I may borrow a bit from a published adventure, but everything is in our homebrew world.Not me, see my response to #1.Not me. I had giants, minotaur's, and unicorn PCs back in the 80s and I still allow any intelligent creature as a PC option.Not me. I could easily play the game without it.  My current group doesn't have any MC characters.Me too. Nothing to add here.Me too - generally. I do sometimes to travel cut scenes (or I have done them - not so much anymore).Me too. However, I go a bit further.  I don't do class design, but I don't worry about balance at all when I do race design.  I design them for how they make sense on our world, not game balance. Just not an issue with my players.Me too.Not me. I haven't used XP consistently since the mid 80s. I always give it a try with each edition, but quickly abandon it.Me too. If I can't play in person with my friends, there is not really a point for me.Me too - with regard to how magic items are introduced.  It wasn't until 4e that I started designing my own magic items and that has continued into 5e.Not me.  This has become more of thing in 5e for me, but in 1e I didn't care about those things at all.  The idea of including travel and exploration in our campaigns really started in 4e and picked up from there.Me too.  Though I allow other forms of contribution too. Me too.Not really. Those things a fine, but I am more interested in group fun and my group is not really interested in those things.For the players or the Characters?  I agree it should be challenging for the Characters (difficult encounters or tasks, substantial risk of failure and/or character death, etc.), but not so much for the players.  My guiding principal is to make it fun.  When running the game as a DM I want to have fun, not challenges, and my players are generally the same.  Things can be challenging, but that is not generally what I or my players find fun.</blockquote>

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