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We had a friend of many years pass. He ran Deadlands as his main game, so we run his adventure once a year and enjoy the memory of him...

Would this change for you were the consequence or knowledge concerning it diegetic... something the characters can know? "Sure, you're...

From my personal point of view, the reason for this is pacing. I want my games to have a MUCH higher pace than you do. We've had...

But you get that's a personal taste thing, right? I can probably say without too much loss of generality there's a lot of people out...

Rules for this are found in the 5e DMG: success at a cost.

I actually think the problem is the inverse; two groups may be appearing to do something very similar (especially when you judge the...

Yeah, I empathize with that. My take is that all this churn mostly comes down to struggling with the underlying nature of what we're...

Exactly. People might not like D&D played that way, because they're attached to the principle or aesthetic of "everything in the...

Ok, let's back up a second shall we? We're all DM's. All of us here are running games. So, that means that every single poster here...

Why do you say this? I mean, it's not as if the rulebook fails to tell us what is meant! And it's not what you say here.

Have you read the rules text (which I posted upthread)? Here is is again: So, as you can see, it is not redundant at all. It...

For what it's worth, this was the issue in the playtest that caused one of the players to ragequit. Back then, you'd subtract your armor...

So, the context for make the character's lives not boring is Apocalypse World instructing the GM to have every decision they make be in...

Did she ask for your help? Did she complain that folks aren't having a good time, and she doesn't know why? If not, it would be showing...

I simply don't see that as a problem. I see that as good design. I find the game more interesting when my role is to depict the...