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yes, i suppose you could just ignore the history of the term and take it on pure face value.

It's more like saying that if you miss in combat, in order to slay your foe you're going to have to attack at least once more.

That's where the player's imagination has to step up, taking what the DM describes and fleshing it out into a more complete scene. Most...

If I understand correctly, it's a change to the information and/or decision space. In past threads that's sometimes been overlooked. I...

i mean, 'that's what my character would do' is generally seen as a very distinct thing from playing the character true, the line of...

Sometimes things are puzzles sometimes they're not. Sometimes you can tell someone is lying sometimes you can't. I like the variety.

But there's a big difference between "Tell them everything they need to know including the outcome" and "Tell them what their characters...

Something did happen. They learned one wrong answer and they will never guess that answer again. Thus the board state updated. I assume...

Agreed. And you still want to take Ritual caster to do some magic. The 4e Ranger could kill anything but it stunk at actually finding...

This is true, but D&D novels don't reflect D&D rules, and magic is way less commonplace, even among characters who would have spells...

They also don't take place in D&D-land, where magic is more common than anywhere save Harry Potter. It's the same reason D&D wizards...

No, he's right. It's not metagaming in any sense. There is no player knowledge being brought into the game through his PC...

I think we both agree on the cause, but not the cure. Wizard and Fighter are designed to be a catch all because when they conceived of...

Fair enough. Your posting history indicates to me that you are very concerned about GM authority being abused, to a degree that the role...

If the point is that because you are not in character 100% of the time that anything not in character should be acceptable then that’s...