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Haggling is still very much used in modern society, it has just taken the form of coupons, app discounts, member discounts, employment...

Yeah. I know. Most often it's with mom and pop vendors. You won't for example, be able to walk into Target and haggle any prices down...

Haggling is still quite common now depending on where you are. For that matter, haggling is still standard in the US for certain products.

I fully acknowledge the role of the GM in any RPG to make the game interesting and engaging for the players. But there's a difference...

It's a failure completely unrelated to the failed climb check. That's the whole issue here. I want a game where if you failed the climb...

I think it depends on how the decks are built. It could easily just be a different way to depict a wizard deciding what spells to...

In the fiction, sure. In terms of rules-based action resolution, however, the 'why' is irrelevant. You could be climbing that cliff...

It's not so much an extreme need for immersion as it is a matter of preserving the sanctity and integrity of play that has already...

@EzekielRaiden, I can't help thinking that one of the reason you find this conversation frustrating and confusing is you seem to...

Ideally the DM has the attitude of whatever happens, happens. I've had fail-forward explained (and have seen this repeated even in this...

Can't speak to Conan but in Frodo's case it's because his captors were, collectively, idiots. Same is true of many a James Bond...

The relevant feature for me is, to put it simply, character development. Wa-a-ay more of my characters' development comes through...

It's bending over backwards when a) the "something interesting" is clearly contrived just for that purpose and otherwise makes no...

Those characters were not killed because they exist in novels. I don't want to play a novel. Sometimes capture has been a campaign end...

The rules are important, but the fiction matters more. It's not collaborative storytelling. It's a game where the rules don't take...