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I'm willing to fail. I'm just not comfortable pushing in front of everyone to fail on a communal turn unless the thing I'm attempting is...

This is exactly the effect I anticipated when I first saw Daggerheart's initiative system but people were dismissive and said it's not...

The two games I've played a substantial amount of that use metacurrency ubiquitously are Daggerheart and Star Trek Adventures. I'm not...

Apparently low magic worlds don’t have aristocrats. Today I found out that I live in a high magic setting. 🤷

I am not missing the point, I am saying it is entirely irrelevant to the original argument. This is nothing but a distraction because I...

It occurs to me--and this could be dead wrong in some people's case--that some of this divide might be related to an old distinction I...

Also, in 5e a lot of things still do half the damage on successful save, so the poison must have contacted.

I much prefer example one and three because the player is retaining some kind of alignment with their characters expression of...

Yet by reading Lovecract's books one might get at least a bit scared, and that is achieved via narration. So I expect the GM to do the...

So I think this is the sort of example which highlights why I don't like randomising these things, and why a lot of people feel...

Obviously. This is not any sort of a secret. And of course no one is denying that the King who returns, Aragorn Elessar, special even...

I mean, I ran that simulation a thousand times, and hobbits never saved the world. I think the author was using metacurrency.

Just a gardener that saves the world.

That is stretching the definition of "exceptional" well beyond the breaking point. Though it is pretty strained for most of the others...

Except of course the best of them, Sam, who was just a gardener.