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Gonna need an INT check to successfully disbelieve.

I'd put it more that the GM found a major flaw in the simulation and corrected it on the spot. "On the spot", however, isn't exactly...

I disbelieve that was the motive. And for that matter, equivalent falls have been survived in real life.

Okay, so I am going to be picky about language. While I think I get what you mean, I want to put focus on something here. Does a...

I don't think about simulationism in TTRPG as really about "modeling". To me, it's more about introducing procedures into play that...

Simulation means to me that we take seriously the imagined fictional universe as a real place and we try to imagine and inform the...

Hey. So as some will know back in August I took my first steps into paid DMing. It wasn’t something I did lightly but I’ve been DMing...

Finished Adventure #9 in the "Tales of the Dogfish" campaign (finally) Thought I'd collect all the 5 word summaries of the sessions in...

Firefight during the fireworks display

Realism doesn't have a ton to add to the trap conversation IMO. They are more fiction than fact, and also heavily tied to the idea of a...

This is not however a figure per trap, but a figure by career. Approximately 700 men served as Tunnel Rats. They explored 4500...

Interesting. It seems the word "realistic" is also being used in multiple ways.

I have long held that the simple "search" check is the most complex thing in all of D&D and this doesn't really matter whether you are...

I agree. In a sense, a treasure chest, the door to something secure, an altar, an idol, or a tomb are all themselves tells. They are...

It depends. I think there's a place for trapped locks and treasure chests without tells. Stuff you'd expect to have traps on it. A...