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The idea is that if the character is likely to be a group, situation or campaign wrecker, maybe the player could have taken time to pick...

If you're doing a puzzle and you failed you have learned something. You've learned that what you just tried isn't the answer. :)

As long as there is something else you can do then why not?

I'm sorry that you seem to stagger through life with no awareness of the risks inherent in what you do, or any judgement of potentially...

it's actually like saying if you miss your attack and fail to kill them then the enemy is still going to be an obstacle on your next turn.

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...