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I think "skilled play" is just the players understanding the idiosyncrasies of the GM.

My take, having read a bunch of stuff around OSR ethos + participated in a fair bit of discussions on the side of some NSR games + run a...

In essence, yes. While this is an extreme example, it could be done. That would be one way to do it. True, but also potentially doable...

I encourage the players to be clever, outwitting the challenges that I present to them, sometimes anti-climactically. eg, totally...

Everything but the players' choices is decided by the referee. If the player can roll for something, what skill to roll, what the TN is...

I was really hoping Paizo would make a ghost busting AP where the PCs went around putting haunts to rest.

I love haunts. Condition tracks, too.there is a ton of stuff in the Gamemastery Guide I should revisit in fact.

It almost needs to be a focus of the adventure/campaign. I know it was always odd in my PF1 days running into random traps. It was...

I think it is important to remember that dice also hold in them the unknown elements of any given situation. Say the player makes a...

i think i'm less inclined to agree with that, at least on the success side, mostly because social challenges are dealing with a...

It seems weird these days, but it sure does conform to some of the 1e abilities that were out there like elves and halflings surprising...

We haven't really talked about puzzles and traps yet, and maybe we should when talking about "player skill." I used to try and do the...

Fundamentally, I think that it should be possible to succeed and fail in social challenges without a roll, just as it’s possible to do...

this is what bothers me so much when people try to eliminate using social skills/checks in the game and just determine success/failure...