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This strikes me as the same argument folks use to say people aren't playing D&D because of some house rule or other, instead of just...

Even though taste is subjective, “Purple Dragon Knight” manages to be an objectively dumb subclass title, so I’m glad it’s gone.

Hey guys, let's put a pin in this conversation while the PDK chants for 10 minutes straight.... IMO Rituals take too long. I let people...

Yeah, this is my experience as well, there is not much of it going on in my D&D game. On the other hand in the Blades in the Dark game I...

So I agree with the basic premise, negotiation can lead to degenerate gameplay and yet in practice I observe most 5e play doesn’t...

It's the GM's choice to agree with the player and then author that fiction. It's not the player's choice to author it, and it's not...

Nope. The fact that a lot of players are clueless about the written rules as well doesn't mean those are subjective either.

What? What is? Whether player and chracter decision space is correraled? No. Whether one likes it? Of course! How games are played is...

Do they? Or is it indeed the GM that listens to player input, and from that migrate fictional possibilities into actualities? The...

Yes, perhaps. But that has nothing to do with the persuasion check. The cleric need to exist to be persuaded!

I mean, it’s the entire point of doing it that way. It gives players more agency over the fiction. It makes player driven either...

I mean yeah, this is just really perplexing and frustrating. I have hard time believing that someone could have genuine trouble...

I’m in disbelief that I’m even having to point out that a d&d persuasion check involving an established cleric that can cast remove...

But not to decide what that information is. No. The character decides that they try to persuade the cleric to cast the spell, and they...

No. You cannot rewrite reality (our reality) and make words say things they don't. If a player chooses to author some fiction, that is...