P/D opening.

[kwil]

Is there a solid way around this opening?

I ask that not only because I lose to it so regularly but because it's practically the only opening I see, and I'd like to start punishing the people who use it, simply so that we get more variety happening.

[yaron]

The answer varies with the ruleset you use.

In a default game (confusion, paraff), there isn't really an alternative.

In a maladroit game, quite a few openings are valid, (some people are using S/W to good effect), but all require more skill to use effectively, and none has been demonstrated to be superior to P/D, just equal.

In a maladroit, parafc game, P/F (going either PS/FF and PW/FF) is particularily annoying against P/D.

Yaron