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I'm never going to drive a semi for a living, so what value is there in knowing how to drive one? It's not going to help me be a better driver in general. It's not going to help me drive my car. It can only help me drive a semi, which I'm never going to do. It would only be of value to me if...

I don't see how it can. Turning, braking, accelerating, changing lanes, parking, etc. are all different for a semi than for a car. Driving a semi will make you a better truck driver, but it's not going to do squat for your car skills.

@Hussar I just bought the new Forgotten Realms books and inside I see that in Calimshan there are settlements of Dragonborn, and that Dragonborn were instrumental in destroying a dracolich for the Sultana, meaning they did relevant to history that is in official books. Because of their loyalty...

I think he did, and I will echo that sentiment. Learning how to drive a truck is not going to help me stay in the lanes better, or park my car better, read road signs better, or brake at more appropriate times. All it's going to do is make me a better TRUCK driver. I'm not going to get...

I disagree, because of what I said earlier. Just like your friend learned from other types of calligraphy, such as performative, so to do DMs learn from various editions as time goes on. This is true not just from changes in rules and style of the editions, 3e being very different from 1e/2e...

As a father of two, I have experienced that.

Possibly. As I said, though, we use it the way you do as well, but I just see it used to mean difficult a lot more often.

I mean, you don't really have to. I've already acknowledged that it means and is used the way you guys are saying. All I'm saying is that in my experience, the vast majority of the time people use it to mean difficult or complex.

Right, but if you have a group that likes it, it can be a real improvement to the game. If not, it's a detriment. Just learning these techniques doesn't automatically make you a better DM, but it does give you more tools to potentially draw upon. They WILL change the feel of a D&D game...

Ambitious You crave power. Money is nice, but being in charge of other people is your favorite thing. You are likely to be brought down by attempting a risky grab for power and failing. Effect: The GM can activate your Hubris in order to get you to chase after power, even if the deal you're...

I still disagree. Choices don't equate to player facing rules. A lot of people loved 3e for those choices and still do. You can't make the statement that it's too much in general, because that hasn't been proven in any way.

YOU would get sick of it. I played 3e from day 1 of its release, through the end of 2019. My group played through 3rd edition, the entirety of 4th edition, and though the first 5 years of 5e. We only switched when 5e actually had a decent number of options to pick from. Even now, though...

Yeah. Periodically I need a break and one of my players DMs for a while. When play starts and I'm just thinking about and worrying about a single character and not an entire world, game of rules, NPCs, monsters, the adventure, and more, I realize just how much easier it is. The only part that...

Oh, for sure. I'm not suggesting that you would bring in all of the techniques from the other systems into D&D. You'd bring in the ones you think work best, and that would be hit or miss depending on the players. If you really need D&D to be more and include the techniques you like, you might...

Okay. That's still all within that single art, though. Think of it like this. Each edition of D&D is different, even though they have similarities that mark them D&D. 1e might be basic calligraphy. 4e might be performative calligraphy adding in dance since it's the most different. It's...

I get your usage. What I'm saying is that 9 times out of 10 people don't use it that way. At least in my experience. I see... I'm beat. Been bailing hay all day. Boy am I exhausted from digging all of those ditches. I tried running a marathon, but by a quarter of the way through, I was so...

They're rules like Plot Points from page 269 of the 5e DMG. The player can use these points to alter the game in some fairly minor, but helpful way. I tried Option 1, but my players just didn't want to do things like that, so they didn't get used.

Sure. I think it might have been 7th Sea, but I got the idea to allow feats for flaws with mechanical detriment to them. Those flaws could be triggered once per game at an appropriate time by anyone at the table. So if someone was say paranoid and had to treat someone new as being after them...

I would think you had difficulties. A problem employee. A problem customer. Your computers went down. Your boss gave you multiple deadlines and there was not enough time to do them. And so on. I wouldn't think you were just tired.