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Except those aren't constraints. They're simply the same things that every GM does, but written down in a handy bulleted list. Here's...

I can't speak for others, but what I want is clear stakes. I want to know what I'm risking, what the potential rewards are, and how the...

Yes, actually. Those priorities, though, I have found, are better served through video games like Baldur's Gate, or campaign games like...

Of course it's tragic in the real world; no idea what you're trying to do by pointing out something so obvious, but sure, yeah, ok. In...

When talking about fiction-first games the fiction refers to the shared/established fictional situation the table has agreed upon. It...

But this of course simply kicks the bias up to a higher plane of abstraction: assigning the odds. Which is already a significant domain...

Retreating from combat: still engaging with the game and the story. Avoiding any activity that has a 1 in 20 chance of instant death...

And this, right here, is one of the things I find extremely frustrating about discussing game design. Note your comparison: literature...

In the scenario I describe above? Where the paladin rolls a 1 and as a result determined by his GM, he falls to his death? Yeah, I'd...

This is strawman crap.

No, it isn't. And as for 'pretty much every topic in existence' being in dispute, I heartily disagree. Most things are settled matters...

There's probably a discussion to be had about that, sure, but the scenario I described above? Makes sense in a kind of comedic...

No, we can let him die and ressurrect him later. Your words.

...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.