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This is why I endeavour to have my houserules determined before the campaign begins, so that I can tell them to the players and they can...

Absolutely, many do. A while back I joined a Deadlands HoE game. I was told it was bog standard rules. So I made a typical gunslinger...

We apply movie logic to this. Protagonists donning bandages, slight limps etc. while fully competent in the next scene. Regardless, I...

In the first case they're a bit tired, perhaps strained. The second they're reeling but still in a fight. Not much different than how...

I will say this, when I say by gut, I am not guessing. I have years of experience, my number sense has always been a solid skill, and I...

That's assuming you don't accept the difference between simplified abstractions and reality. People do, indeed fall unconscious or die...

I get that. To be clear, one of my dream TTRPG products would be a "Victorian" era supernatural investigation society based in the 1840s...

If I sit down to play Catan, there are no exceptions to any of the rules that come up through odd corner case game play. A 7 results in...

Not saying the game is perfect, far from it, but I am not surprised that you complaints based on your highly anomalous experience do not...

@EzekielRaiden I'm not terribly interested getting deeper into guideline/rule semantic quagmire. But I agree with you that overriding...

One might argue that rules of a game tend to be pretty inviolable. Like we cannot just decide in chess that a bishop can this time move...

No. They mean that things will usually work in certain way, with the caveat that there might be some exceptions.

There's a pretty stark difference between "The DM can add or change rules of a game" and "The DM is not following any rules and is just...

So, let me get this straight. My PC kills fifteen orcs with a fireball, and that's perfectly, morally acceptable. My PC kills fifteen...

As a Dark Sun fan, this is awful news.