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If I did leap off a cliff, you beat me there. The DM and players are on the same page in traditional play, therefore if what you and...

Good grief. If the character is fighting an orc, we resolve whether the attack is successful by rolling dice. In the runes case it's...

Because if the fiction reality is undetermined and then it becomes determined, the fictional reality has changed. That's fact. Those...

I've had many, many DMs over the decades. If it did happen I would walk away from the table and find the organizer to explain what they...

Yep. This is totally unavoidable in that style of play. The reality of the fiction was that the runes were not set/unknown. Then the...

Ah, the old canard about the slippery slope of GM authority leading inevitably to the dark pit of railroading. I guess railroading GMs...

I'm not a fan of "stances" or really any of the other analytical terms. I say I run a sandbox campaign, but it would likely depend on...

Then traditional play can't inherently be a railroad. Under that definition, no agreed upon playstyle can be. Yeah, that's not the...

They're talking game theory lingo that everyone is just supposed to know. Anyway from What is Stance Theory? Part1 Actor Stance: The...

This is probably where you're losing your audience, because within that person's mind what's being imagined does exist. Otherwise, what...

Not a fan. Strength-based characters are already overshadowed enough without there being an entire range of items that allow other...

It's been a long time since I read the 3e rules for climbing and they kind of represent why I don't think they really buy much. When I...

At the risk of rekindling debates from two decades ago... That sounds like a video game problem. I can't remember the last time I saw...