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And we're saying that there is absolutely no difference between one completely arbitrary die roll resulting in an encounter and another...

I reiterated the imagined instance of play of Apocalypse World, where the PC breaks into Dremmer's storeroom and encounters Pattycakes...

I've noticed a certain trend in this discussion that, when it comes to identifying features of D&D, combat doesn't count. There is a...

This is contentious. In the way PCs are built - stats, feats, the components of a character's "race" - is heavily derived from 3E D&D...

I'm not @Campbell, but you can see my answer to these questions in my reply to him not very far upthread: D&D General - [rant]The...

It may not be very prevalent today in games like DW2e (which is pure OC/neo-trad exhibit my character curated arc play from what I can...

No. Certainly what is discussed on EnWorld generally as 'simulation(ism)' is at best unrelated to Narrativist play goals. Like in our...

When it comes to the classic inspirational literature, my gold standard for climbing urban walls to sneak into somewhere important is...

Well, obviously there's plenty of mechanics involved in the various tests, but the process of updating your beliefs doesn't seem to be...

Is there? You've never made room for such a distinction before. Why is it suddenly relevant now? And would you seriously not think that...

Right, you use derogatory terminology, but you don't mean it. Lets just drop this, it can't lead to anywhere good. As for D&D is not...

this is the most ENWorld thread i've ever seen. i don't even know where the goalposts are anymore, they've moved so far

Oh, loss is fascinating. That's totally different then whiffing on a task and then standing around looking at each other.

I don't know what 'part of the check' means. That is, I think you're creating a pretty arbitrary criteria here. It feels like it's...

I get criticized any time I say something similar.