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All the time, huh? With 5% chance of dying every time? Or every 30 feet? I don't really believe you, but whatever.

"Appeal to authority fallacy refers to the use of an expert’s opinion to back up an argument. Instead of justifying one’s claim, a...

1) Sure, a series of them...like in combat. Of course, even then, players can decide to retreat; I can't decide to not fall. 2) Any...

No, that's not quite right; it's a fallacy when one appeals to an authority that lacks expertise in the matter being discussed...like...

For sure. My first post indicated that I am sure there are players that love it when their characters die this way.

Still more than 1 in 100 though...which is pretty high, considering the character dies otherwise. In the real world, would you engage...

Character death due to arbitrary roll is not high-stakes, though; it's random crap. In fact, character death is the least imaginative...

The point can be made more analytically, I think. Let's suppose that there are three salient characters: H(ero), who is a player's...

Why do you offer a save?

I mean, I know GMs used to be that way back in the day, but...if a bad roll or two is all it takes to wipe out months of investing in a...

So, with my 4 free hours of game time available per month, I have invested in this character, and rolling a 1 trying to scale the cliff...

True. My bad.

In this case, it’s not about fail forward. It’s about a GM designing a dungeon or a scenario where there is one path forward to...

That’s all fine. My point is not that anyone has to like this approach… it was that your characterization of it was inaccurate. There’s...

I don't know what you mean by "story driven play". I mean, you're the guy who says that you want fiction over rules; yet you seem to be...