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Again, I disagree. A sailor that can always, guaranteed, find a buddy wherever they are is improbable to the point of impossible. I'm not arguing about what my opinion is any more.

Maybe whale isn't the correct word. :unsure: I would say though that most people in no way spend thousands of dollars a year on D&D. If you enjoy it and you can afford it I don't see anything wrong; I just think you're the exception to the rule. I don't know if I'd consider myself a...

Hey people spend untold amounts of money on stamp collections as well. I just don't get it. You can't even use the old stamps to send mail so why bother? :P

I do series of mini-arcs with the players deciding what arc to pursue next out of a few I propose or something they want to follow up on. So as one arc is wrapping up I can do some planning on the next one. But I also try to be quite flexible on how they approach solutions. I've asked people...

If money is an issue, you can always have the group chip in. Beyond that only whales spend thousands of dollars on D&D. I haven't spent "thousands" of dollars on D&D even spread over the past decade, even including a 3D printer my wife bought me. A DM having PHBs to loan out? I've never seen...

Per hour of play, D&D is still an incredibly cheap hobby comparatively.

It sucks if you can't afford the books, but that does not change that the books are cheaper than they've ever been while having a higher page count. WotC can't do anything about the cost of living, all they can control is how much they charge for the books. At this point I wouldn't be too...

I agree, and I think the D&D book of the month club that has been tried in the past was quite detrimental to the game. Not only having too many options, but your average newbie or loosely associated (e.g. parent) consumer did not know enough to figure out which book to buy. Typically a version...

For me it was simple logistics. After I graduated from college I moved to a relatively small city and there simply weren't any game stores, much less games. This was back in the dark ages when there was no internet, no organized play in the area, and D&D was still something to be, if not...

I disagree but I'm done.

So the background feature has fallen into a familiar trend Poster 1: I don't like how several of the background feature work [possibly insert what I do instead] Poster 2: There is no problem Poster 1: it's illogical to me, which is a problem when I play the game [you have to know someone, your...

Wait ... so now WotC is terrible because they're selling the books too cheap? Is there so little to complain about that this has to be an issue? :unsure:

What can I say? I don't want to play the sidekick to the "real" hero. The opposite is also true, I don't want to play an OP character because I won the ability score lottery, that's would also be boring. If I make an OP character I want it to be because I'm just better at character building...

Your idea of "moderately-lethal" and most people's are likely to be significantly different. :) Unless I'm playing an elf*, I fully expect to play that character for hundreds of hours. I don't care about real life, I don't care that I "could" accept I'm playing Wimpy McLoser, especially when...

I'm not convinced true sandbox are a good fit for many groups. 🤷

I haven't gotten around to campaign 3 yet, I've heard it has ... issues. Which is too bad but it happens sometimes with all groups.

A thought regarding the OP that I meant to write up before I got caught up in discussion when catching up on the thread. The paradox of choice is the theory that while we may think we want more options, more options pretty quickly leads to dissatisfaction. If you have 4 colors to pick from for...

As a thought experiment, assume for a moment that during the development cycle of 5E there was an AI that could play D&D. Feed it the rules, have the machine crank through millions of games of D&D with the rules, simulating millions of different players. Basically give the developers the same...

Almost as if they had time to learn what worked and how to improve on the existing rules along with general shifts in what people want. Also, the amount of change is debatable. It's not like it's going to be a whole new game.

They've stated multiple times that they don't rehearse, don't have a script. 🤷‍♂️ Personally I see no reason to disbelieve them. They are quite used to improv and of course they're talented actors. I assume some general issues and potential story arcs or changes for individual characters...