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I don't think they said that "no business should fail", just that they don't feel they should get excited about it.

It's a group game with group dynamics. If one character has inherited wealth and power it's not fair to the rest of the players at the...

This is a wild claim. It assumes that fidelity to a character must be measured externally, as if there's an authoritative benchmark. But...

@Morrus, the conversation has not included Amazon sales for D&D for some time now. Should this be moved to a different forum?

I don't see why not. If you have rules that establish metrics then you've just changed who gets to decide if you've faithfully...

In the 2024 PHB they call using thieves tools a "Utilize" action. Utilize. This entry lists things you can do with the tool when you...

I think it's a false agenda. The characters' lives can't be boring if you are playing the game, even if there are boring bits in it...

Except that I do have an agenda of not making the characters'(and players') lives boring, which can be done in conjunction with fidelity...

It's funny. People complained about how the cook example is so terrible so I asked them to provide alternatives. The closest I...

I think it's both trivial and pedantic. More importantly I think all of these things can be better explained by different phenomena...

Of course we don't need to go trough this rigmarole. That just happens to be a way many find produces a more believable experience than...

You'd think nobody had ever seen Saving Private Ryan. Reality can sometimes be far harsher than we would like.

Most of the time IME the main considerations against taking prisoners in any numbers are one or more of: --- we're standing into...

That's not been my reading of the thread. You are allowed to take umbrage with it. Just clarify that the criticism is about semantics...

I also acknowledge my mistakes. Nothing really is an absolute, so getting on folks for small departures from sim (which can themselves...