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House-ruling a board game (other than Monopoly, which is chronically house-ruled in unproductive ways) is pretty rare. Further, a board...

I can't imagine why you are saying this, but I can't believe this is true. Shared narrative? Fun amongst friends? Sure. Threat of...

I was watching a show recently where A had put a drug into B's drink, as part of a conspiracy with C and D. But B then didn't want to...

So is fighting. So is climbing. So is being an impressive and charismatic performer. None of these are processes that are much like the...

Do you believe in different rules for NPCs and PCs?

Oh, I’m not surprised by that at all. I’ve never played that way, even in the AD&D days. Sometimes you have to discuss things as players...

A regular basis??! Martyrs are known because they are exceptional, no? As for the rest, people overestimate their willpower all the...

Ok, so I (mostly) agree with pretty much everything you've written here*, especially these parts: "The GM doesn’t own the PCs." "It...

Sure...unless you just haven't been persuaded by the right person, in the right circumstance. Imagining it as a white-room scenario...

That's what you think, huh? That when Vince and Meg Baker wrote Apocalypse World, that they said "we need some marketing phrases that...

No. The point was, if it is on the table in the first place, it must have been possible to begin with. If it wasn't possible to begin...

I think we can all call upon stories where this has happened in real life without any magic involved, though. It's quite common for...

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Do you feel that way about dice rolls/mechanics resulting in character death?

Again, you never allow players to persuade an NPC to do something they would never do, so, why are you allowing an NPC to do it? If the...