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I think you're conflating expert knowledge (things we can't judge without extensive training) with general experience here. But not...

What have I misrepresented? You keep making accusations, you don't clarify and you don't provide any examples that better represent...

If I have a situation where a single roll (or even a handful) would guarantee the character's death I'll let the player know ahead of...

I wouldn't mind an answer that wasn't realistic, as long as it's lore explained (ie, the arcanist wish, or air being an element and...

I've attempted to do these calculations before - except in my case it was a portable hole. I house ruled that the people survived for...

OK, I'll take the bait. TL;DR: the famous netherese arcanist Avogadro Wished anyone to die after spending 10 minutes in a Bag of...

You skipped the scene where the DM described the difficult climb up thousand foot cliff and clarified that they don't limit falling...

And yet we don't all play games that demand death by narrative only. Weird.

Other games of course have different goals of play but I don't want to play those games and I'm just talking about my personal...

Who says any of us care what Luke Crane (or Gary Gygax, or Ron Edwards, or or or) have to say about this? We all make our own decisions...

What you're describing is the 100% realism strawman. The idea that, because one's priority is verisimilitude, and perfect verisimilitude...

Who said the house is likely to have a cook? Is the cook in kitchen 24 hours a day? Who needs a chef at 2 AM? The point is that if...

If the character hadn't failed to pick a lock there would have been no screaming chef. The only reason the chef exists in the fiction is...

I understand that it's still not as powerful as the 2014 rule. I just think it would be silly to back up 5 feet but still not provoke so...

We were told repeatedly by WOTC that if something is reprinted/changed you should only use the new reprinted version. I realize that...