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Conversely what if it is a session with no rolls but purely social roleplay and decison-making, Maybe the die is rolled a handful of times...do you consider that session @Reynard an exercise in story-making?

Well this can happen in D&D with your basic hit roll but you do not necessarily have the entire table's input. In D&D other players may offer input or suggestions but at the end of the day the DM and specific player likely have the biggest vote on what the hit roll means in the fiction. As I see it.

Well...if you want to change goal posts sure. We play to find out, but when the GM comes up with an adventure (AP or otherwise), there is a story there. Severin's understanding of the prophecy was different to Sammaster's and so he reforged the Cult of Dragon with a new purpose. His prayers...

Two scenarios. 1. Character died. 2. Character saved via Clone spell which had been prepared Halaster who kept the character as prisoner and as a form of entertainment. [Adventure - Death - Clone - Adventure - Death - Clone...etc] 3(a) GM came up with a challenge for the character to escape...

I liked that concept when I first got exposed to it with Cryptomancy as one of the Seven Secret Crafts of Glantri (BECMI) and it was even more cool as my favourite Prince of the 10 that ruled the nation was also Cryptomancy's 5th Circle Mistress (head of that craft).

Establish lore regarding this solitary beholder - creation or escape from the Outer Realms. If from the Outer Realms perhaps the users of these artifacts become slightly mad or adopt certain beholder-like tendencies (diet, senses, metamorphosis...etc) I would not have all of the priests graft...

I agree with this, YP adventures require a creative DM to make them anywhere near interesting. Of late I have really been enjoying the social pillar of the game (characters are 16th) Our current party is split and one of the storylines I'm running has been BG - DiA and we've played through the...

At this stage the Dabus of Sigil are easier to understand than your posts

If one removes the 6 abilities, I would imagine monsters would lose them too. i.e. your less powerful comment would apply to monsters as well. If they did not then some sort of other measurement would be required on behalf of the PCs.

And that is where we differ and to be clear on my position, not playing in those worlds does not make it not D&D either. I remember that homebrewing your D&D was a thing. You still were considered to be playing D&D though.

Yes I didn't disallow your opinion, I just find it to be peculiar.

You're rolling a d20. You still have modifiers, HD, hit points, armour class, saving throws, skill checks, sorcery points, beholders, chromatic dragons, your standard classes, levels, spell levels, feats, different die for weapons, proficiencies, skills, Strahd, Stephen Karameikos, Tiamat...

If I am playing in Waterdeep, Threshold or Barovia and there are no ability scores...it is still D&D to me... D&D is more than ability scores IMO. The absence of a mechanic does not stop it being D&D.

A party of five nineteen

Great thread! Questions I never pondered to ask but can help establish richer setting lore for my players who enjoy that kind of world-building, which is most of them. ;)