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Why? He and I agree on a lot of things, but not everything. People on the same side of a discussion can disagree over specifics. :)...

I've never made any comment on how someone else runs their game. I wanted clarification on whether you were talking about nothing...

I would compare to other legendary items. A few random examples Dawnbringer has all the properties of a sun blade (+2 weapon +1d8...

I understand why a dead end is boring, I don't understand why something that is reconciled in a minute or two qualifies as boring. If...

How long does resolving an action take in your game? How much time with a simple "It doesn't work" take out of your game? Because that's...

You said the atomization of actions is "unnatural". I disagree. It's a different way of handling things but I find it quite natural...

I've been kind of on the fence on this for a while, but I've decided that going forward we'll figure something out for half races...

More false equivalences. As far as being a referee in a game, the only thing I care about for any specific declared action is whether...

There would be no point to rolling if it's always going to succeed. If the outcome of a declared action is uncertain I ask for a roll...

I don't know who Eero is and don't really care but the quote is rather demeaning to anyone who doesn't play the game their way. With...

The comment you were replying to says: This doesn't just encompass a change from A --> B; i.e., the runes were a guacamole recipe, and...

You just plainly described the difference. 1) The game system has a rule for killing Orcs. 2) In MHRP, the game system has a rule for...

The last game we played I was running my paladin and we were in the middle of a fight when the party's wizard suddenly just walked off...

I have also created encounters where staying and fighting was simply not an option. For example, I had one where the party was trying to...

In the fiction they don't change. At the table they do. If Bob declared the action rather than Alice, Bob might have some other...