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Looks to me like he’s citing a scenario. What the heck does it matter where the hypothetical scenario is from?

I think he's talking about the differences in the two playstyles. In our playstyle, the climb is its own discreet event and is not...

The snippet you game me on fail forward did not contradict the web site I quoted. As I said, barring actual examples of what you mean...

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...