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If I want to run a game other people don't want to play, we don't end up playing it. If we do play and I make a call with which a player...

I've played in and run a lot of games where the GM has control over everything in the world except the PCs. I've never had the GM...

Man! Now I wish I had said Skittles instead of M&Ms.

I may have to introduce these new monsters in my campaign.

Great. Now I'm imagining someone crashing through the window throwing candy coated milk chocolate batarangs if I make a decision a...

Our social contract is usually pretty generic. A player completely controls their character, the DM does not. If they say they do it...

Can you say why anyone is under an obligation to enter into play under terms they don't enjoy? I'm thinking of my friend's current...

Ok. I then think the reason you are not seeing it more is that this social cost is also so well recognized that people think also that...

And yet in reality that does not happen. Why is that? He has unlimited power given by the DMG, and yet does not ignore the social...

I was thinking about this a bit more and having automatic death at 0 leads to less tension rather than more would likely lead to less...

I play in person, I've never had an issue recruiting or retaining players. At the same time I've occasionally mentioned ideas like a...

Traditionally, this is a self-correcting problem. Back in the old days (finds beard to stroke) ... the way a lot of games evolved was...

If you assume players are perfectly interchangeable widgits then sure it is a trivial cost. They aren't.