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It is very much expected. Nearly all modern media, even more so any action adventure fantasy sci-fi, is very kid friendly and rated E for Everyone. There is lots of action and lots of weapons get held and pointed and aimlessly shot. Sure plenty of mooks fall down and take naps, but main...

My biggest turn off is how much Eberron was made out to be the Anti- Forgotten Realms game. The big selling point of Eberron was that it was not like the Forgotten Realms. No gods, no alignments, no high level NPCs, no heavy lore and no meta plot.

I very much agree! I see very few players do either if they have played the game before. They get so locked into the idea that combat in a RPG is just a fun fight where they always win. As this is the way a lot of DM run their games. A lot of new players that come to my game have never seen...

My example is the players wanting to do something and the DM saying "nope". The exact same way the players do it to the DM with an encounter.

CE. I live the life.

Right, there are non combat RPGs. So, why do people insist on making all combat characters in nearly all combat games, and then say "Oh I want to play some other way"? Of course, the vast majority of players consider "PC capture" to be Railroading and Bad. And few players have their PCs...

I think when players think they should have ultimate freedom to do whatever they want in a game is bad. Just to show why it is bad...just reverse it. The players really want their characters to kill an ogre. And the DM is just like "nope no ogre's around anywhere". So is this great DM...

The problem here is you have a powerful all combat person...like Superman, who then just does stuff that is not based on all powerful combat. So, why even HAVE all the all powerful combat abilities? This is the big problem with PCs in nearly all RPGs: they are all combat. The idea of just...

I find this to be the real problem. Most gamers are overloaded with "most media" and it's very, very, very soft depiction of non-failure. If the game has a story plot that the players care about, then you always have the overall stakes of failure for that. But just in the microcosm of combat...

Except the idea that something might happen in the fiction does not equal character death. I agree. But character death adds so many more levels. When you have players who care about the game fiction, it makes for a great game. Death only adds to that. Knowing that your PC might fail and...

I like the Lore Heavy Setting I run games "back in time", before 1375DR, and ignore new dung. Forever. Lords of Darkness, The Magister, The Seven sisters, Cult of the Dragon, all the Volo books and guides. Yes. Er....all of them most of them. Even the "bad" ones are okay stories...

I agree. This is one of the Big Things that makes RPGs Unique. I find character death makes players care more about everything game related. Not just their character, but their characters story arc and the game arcs. Too many players get comfortable in the no-character death game and check...

A DM just being a DM is not Railroading. How can the "rules" matter when a DM can do anything? When a DM makes a monster or NPC they can make the numbers whatever they want: this is one of the basic things DMs do. Most RPGs don't have 5,000 page rule books telling a DM every little thing...

Odd, I never really put time skips as 'railroading'. And I don't hear many complaints about it. But all Time Skips can't be Railroading. Like Downtime Time Skips sure are not Railroading. The PCs want to take a year to build a base, and everyone agrees to skip forward a year to when the...

Even back in 1E, the spell said "contact your deity or agents thereof. It for sure said that in 2E. Also, 2E at least introduces the Avatar concept, where most deities can have multiple avatars of themselves. And a "answer" one is obvious.