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By the way, back on the subject of railroading, I was just at my local bookstore looking at the Vecna adventure path by WotC. In the...

Actually, yes, there are people advocating for that, in this thread and in other threads.

I mean, it's the same issue as solving in-game puzzles, right? You either let the players actually solve them, or you roll dice and...

They can give information on which the players can base their decisions if they want and they can be used to determine the reactions of...

Well, the first question is "which game?" But assuming we are talking about D&D 5e, it requires extrapolation and ignoring...

Only if your play loop is that the dice roll determines what the character thinks. If your play loop is that the player determines what...

Sure, but in my opinion "roll dice and do what they tell you regardless of what you believe" is the less fun way to choose a branch. I...

And my response is that there are some situations you might like to present in a movie or book that just don't work in RPGs. One of...

To me, this kind of situation is more a question of why does it matter so much that the PC shouldn’t know the NPC is lying? I mean, if...

I’m not a particular fan of this either but I figure that people are going to be trustful or mistrustful of NPCs as a point of meta...

Right! And even with games like D&D where there is a skill like insight, I don't think it should work as an actual lie detector. I...

This is why I don't have any sort of non-magical lie detection when I GM. "Do I think the NPC is lying?" "I don't know...do you?"

It is not weird at all. People suspects others of lying based on the context of the situation all the time, even if the person's...

That, BTW, is the sort of thing I very much do not like and what I do not do when I GM. If the NPC's deception beats the PC's insight...

VTTs have definitely changed the calculus for how picky we can be about the people we game with. I mostly only play live, so the...