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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8999923" data-attributes="member: 93670">I'm aware of it.  It's not ignored.  Chargen rules are 11-15 in "Chapter 1: Step by Step character creation".  The sections you note are buried at the tops of  page 5&6 in isolation rather than being woven into the chargen guidance Alice Cindy Dave & Eddie could be directed to start  collaborating on while the GM is busy helping Bob with hids much greater need or breaking from bob to talk one on one  with someone else about their PC in the wrong place  & lacking teeth that gives the GM room to make changes that make players feel like they are getting something good rather than a nerf.  The same holds true of the <a href="https://youtu.be/uoqJL2_Nqyc?t=679" target="_blank">DMG equivalent</a>.  Lacking a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKBbUdfvwrU" target="_blank">meeseeks box</a> the GM needlessly faces a much higher bar if the players are not at a level where the GM doesn't actually need to teach them or do much to even "run" a session zero by failing to provide useful contextually relevant & meaningful text supporting players in a session zero.I think it's unreasonable to not consider how the d&d community has a whole has grown much quicker to simply kneejerk <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54YfhiEoUCY" target="_blank">blame the gm</a> for any & all problems at the table <a href="https://youtu.be/Zgr4pPAptK8?t=1085" target="_blank">no matter the problem</a>.  There were a lot of people who immediately made the leap to bad gm conflicting gm : player expectations with a bad gm who can't see that.  Heck one person quoted me saying I was talking about the TCoE text complete with page numbers & section references for the quotes multiple times with huge fisked responses before noting in surprise that I was actually quoting what I noted I was quoting then did so a few more times before actually reading it. & noting they "read over those pages".</blockquote>

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