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...OK, you know it doesn't have to be a cook, right? It could be a member of the house having a midnight snack. It could be the dog. It...

It's over for the paladin...and in very lame fashion.

No protagonists? Do you just mean characters? So a cook is very likely to be found in a kitchen, right? But the cook will not spend...

Someone upthread asked what "fail forward" is/looks like. Given that Luke Crane is one of those who coined the concept, it seems to me...

Those are what I am talking about, unfortunately.

Sure, if it's a CoC-type game, where people going nuts/dying is part of the genre, fine. Players approach the genre with genre...

They can choose to retreat. They may or may not be successful, but they can choose it. I can't choose to not roll a 1.

You are no longer arguing the same thing. The argument was about death through a random roll, not player choice. I said myself that...

Sure. Some play games with death by a random dice roll. Fun!

While a legitimate point, the numbers I quoted were not for just professional climbers but competent amateurs too, and while I agree...

Hopefully. Hopefully the GM will also let me know if there's a 1 in 20 chance of dying doing these activities.

I was re-reading some fairly old V. Baker posts recently (I think I talked about this ages ago in this thread as well), and he notes...

Sure. That doesn't mean that it's a fallacy to believe them because of their expertise. I can tell you that drivers in Australia travel...

Huh? That's the authority I'm referring to. I read a book and listened to the teacher. I didn't perform any experiments involving...

Exactly. It can be a fallacy if your electrician starts expounding upon your plumbing.