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Even as GM I don't change the fiction on the fly to help the characters. Once the session starts the fiction is fixed. I don't care if...

But what the mechanics do, is cause the player's conjecture to be right. That is not what happens in the fiction, and that's why there...

I think it was a mistake to allow finesse to fully substitute strength with dex. It should have been so that it only does so for to hit...

Given the extreme degree of in-game variability of situation and circumstance where a check might be made, I'd posit the mechanics...

Even real world simulations like galaxy formation rely on numbers they just plug in for things like dark matter and dark energy. Do...

I'd say the answer to "What does a simulation do?" is more like "It models, as best as it can, how something would happen were it...

And noone told me! Are you saying that all those wonderfully moments I had, witnessing the cool ideas my players came up with unfold in...

When a real-world archaeologist walks into a chamber that has some runes on the wall those runes already say something, and what they...

Smaller bugs, like some sort of weird-ass mechas. It's skin suits and exoskeletons all the way down. Edit: added an important hyphen.

The real question is, who controls the bugs? Ah, who am I kidding, it's pixies. It's always pixies.

Right, which is why I narrate all player actions as the outcome of a small army of bugs that follows them around, puppeting their PCs...

Sadly, with WOTC versions of D&D dexterity is king. You can have nearly the same damage potential and AC with a high dex fighter as a...

I've seen games that tell you what results do and after the 12th time you trip on a stink bug it starts getting old. Games should...