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Yeah, there are games, like 4e D&D, where everyone being equally effective in combat is kind of important. OTOH outside of that sort of...

And for the last time, many of us have said that this was a bad example. Why do you keep bringing it up like it's the end-all and be-all...

I don't think there's a version of FF that demands no failures. The example you were responding to seems to me to be pretty solid...

Yeah, all I'm saying here is that your envelope as Little Lord Fontleroy is a bit different shape than that of Sam the Gardner, but they...

I've neither read nor played Monsterhearts myself. I think this is a bit of a genre trope though. You are playing teenagers and dealing...

No I don't. We've all been posting here and discussing each other's ideas for a LONG time! You've been posting for 5 years now...

I don't know what you mean by "rising conflict" or "rising action". I don't see a long discussion of how many pitons the PCs have, how...

Heaven forbid that the fiction in a RPG be affected by (i) the actions the players declare for their PCs, and (ii) their success or...

I just note how you don't distinguish the interests of the player and the character here. Sure, it's probably advantageous from the...

There's no principle called 'be stupid'. You're reaching. Bringing the conflict to bear on the characters, challenging them, making them...

Look, I wasn't there and won't pretend to know what was going on. OTOH I do think it's very likely that the player being complained...

Right, the 2014 system is basically lifted straight from 4e. You roll a Stealth check and whatever that result is, that's the DC of a...

No one said anything about being interrupted. The scenario was that the thief made enough noise while picking a lock that the cook heard...

I have a friend who is a master lock hacker. Truthfully, for a skilled person tackling ordinary locks there's little doubt of the...

I see other people have already pointed this out, so I apologise if this feels like dogpiling, but this is misrepresenting what...