D&D General The Monsters Know What They're Doing ... Are Unsure on 5e24

[Belen]

For the same reason so many GMs on this very forum have bemoaned their terrible plight, being the victim of the horrible, manipulative, nasty players; these poor, beleaguered GMs with absolute power, and an edition which bends over backwards to make their word law, as hard as iron, cannot do anything about these nasty players with such HORRID demands as "well I was kind of hoping I could play a dragonborn".

You are very consistently anti-DM across many threads. It is one reason that I perceive ENWorld has become DM-unfriendly.

That may not be the case but it sure feels that way.

 

[mamba]

I'm not saying it's unclear to the player.

ok, so a misunderstanding rather than unclear. In that case things get sorted out right then and there, just like in your example discussion

DM: I'm running an Arctic game would you like to play.
Player: Sure. That's sounds cool. Frozen tundras and stuff. I guess I can't play in 2014 Arctic Ranger because that would make it too easy, right?

any player who thinks an Arctic Ranger is not suitable for an arctic campaign sounds like someone who runs into a lot of misunderstandings

I am not sure what disqualifies a Pyromancer though. The DM should definitely have been more explicit in your fictional exchange

 

[TiQuinn]

it's silly to pretend that tortle is any sort of deep RoLePlAyInG choice.

 

[Minigiant]

ok, so a misunderstanding rather than unclear. In that case things get sorted out right then and there, just like in your example discussion

No it's not a misunderstanding it's unclear because clear instructions were not given.

Misunderstanding would be if he said something and then he interpreted those words as something else. But Arctic as words in Dungeons and Dragons only are linked to the ranger class and the druid class as player character creation aspects.

any player who thinks an Arctic Ranger is not suitable for an arctic campaign sounds like someone who runs into a lot of misunderstandings

Because if you're going to have a campaign fully in one terrain you would require that the dm to state that your favorite terrain abilities to be able to constantly be used.

I mean that's a common complaint about rangers since 2e.

 

[Remathilis]

You are very consistently anti-DM across many threads. It is one reason that I perceive ENWorld has become DM-unfriendly.

That may not be the case but it sure feels that way.

He's in the minority. This board is full of people who think DMs do no wrong. In fact, I'm pretty sure we were just having a conversation about killer DMs with people who didn't believe they existed in the numbers that match the stories told about them. That's so deep in denial that you can meet the Pharaoh.Thread after thread, DM supremacy is touted and players either get on board or get out. DMs don't compromise, they declare.

And if you want to ask for names: go look at my block list.