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If my character does something stupid or unwise it's because their ability score says they're stupid or unwise. Frequently because...

None of that has anything to do with sleight of hand though, nothing in the rules or my understanding of how lockpicking works would...

I have absolutely now words for how much I hate this notion. It has poisoned almost all modern fiction. If you look at the great works...

It is about degree. Yes, we all know we are rolling to see if we hit. But if we also get to rule to decide what the runes mean or...

I have no illusion whatsoever that my character is not real, just like I have no illusions that Batman is real. At this point I don't...

I'll emphasize again--my preferences are not due to a lack of ability to engage collaboratively full time. Heard this one a few times...

Why do you think that something that you set up as a standard in your head for your character somehow isn't a standard or something you...

That has rarely been my experience. If you hear about them it's likely been because they're such shocking outliers to the way the game...

If no lock can be unlocked silently then success or failure doesn't matter. Seems like success would be noisier because you were...

Since their characters and others in their group are already making crazy decisions all the time why would they need a system to...

Maybe a better turn of phrase right from the start would have been "make the characters' lives exciting" instead of "make the...

I thought I did answer. I want to inhabit my character, experience the world as my character would. I don't want to switch lanes into a...

I hit people redefining old terminology in software development all the time as well. The theories sound new and shiny but when you...

This is how I would be laying it out if mentoring a player in trad D&D Make each main character’s life not boring. Set an unobtainable...

The main issue I hit when I was looking for examples is that there's so little agreement on what it even means. There's some scenarios...