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No, it's just your posts that I often don't understand for whatever reason. I don't mean that as much of a criticism, and I don't ever...

What you describe here as the feature “always working” is the player saying their PC knows someone, but the player isn’t “always” saying...

@trappedslider Where’s the pineapple?

Random scenes with NPCs that originate with the players making unexpected choices are the best. Those are often the highlights of game...

What were the chances that her sister would be in that bar? One in a million? Sounds very unrealistic to me. 😉

These are ridiculous examples and no player would ever actually try any of this. I mean, it's easy to make ludicrous strawman examples...

Roleplaying is not required of probably 99% of D&D. In fact, the backgrounds are really the only part of the game that encourages...

Okay, then what's wrong with a feature like Criminal Contact "working" (i.e. you can send and receive messages to and from your contact)...

Can't you make exactly the same argument about e.g. IC discussions between the PCs? No chance of failure so you just skip over it?

My table has found that the how is often incredibly interesting and helps to develop the character enormously and make the scene more...

If you have players who refuse to roleplay, that's on them, not the feature.

I gotta admit, as a player that’s generally my reaction to DMs who do this. How do I do it? I don’t know. I don’t care either. I just do...

So I refute thermodynamics by imagining my hypothetical perpetual motion machine, I refute special relativity by imagining myself flying...

I don't know what you mean by "change the world". It's a joke to say a player can decide what their PC thinks as long as they're okay...

My only point (poorly made, I admit) is that many games have solved almost all the "problems" the D&D influencers are trying to provide...