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In 3e I had a chart for how much to power attack based on the target's AC because you could subtract from the attack bonus and add that...

I’m in disbelief that I’m even having to point out that a d&d persuasion check involving an established cleric that can cast remove...

But not to decide what that information is. No. The character decides that they try to persuade the cleric to cast the spell, and they...

It's not hard to understand. People just don't like it.

The assigned role of the DM though is to run a campaign fairly and to have fun. He has no "in world" objectives. It is why he...

Also why I bristle when someone suggests that the rest of the game should be structured more like the combat, wanting some tactical...

They did though. And so does the GM in almost every RPG. No, that's called collaborative storytelling. It might be playing RPGs as...

If the player really isn’t authoring the runes meaning, why wasn’t this pointed out from the begginning? That’s been a huge part of the...

isn’t the whole point that on a success the player gets to author (create) the runes meaning? The character certainly isn’t authoring...

Yet the player did. Thus the player and character decision spaces were divergent. Like I have been saying for pages and you keep...

They just hoped for what the runes meant and then because the roll was successful the runes matched what they hoped for. That' fine...

We use skills to settle what is not settled all the time. The difference is does the character have causal capability to settle the...

For the cleric example to be the same the following would need to be true 1) the fictional constraints on the cleric (who he is, what...

You're playing a different game than I do. A character changing their knowledge of the runes wouldn't change what the runes mean which...

Incorrect. It's submission to authority whenever that authority is USED. Kim Jong Un has absolute authority in North Korea. If you...