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So... The amount of simulation you lose from removing "random, unknown time limits that have a pretty decent chance of either not...

As a once-in-a-VERY-long-while subversion, maybe. More than once in a single campaign? No, absolutely not going to "love" that.

Unknown even to the GM, and randomly determined. Whether or not the players were told of this random, yet-unrevealed time limit at the...

Listen, I don’t have any kind of problem with a random encounter. But it’s not any different. And your rolling ahead of time doesn’t...

But that's the point. The GM cannot do that. They don't know. Nobody does, not until after the player has finished their actions. Only...

It's a place with rats. A rat could run into it and experience an animal desire, and boom, object consumed, rat's desire made manifest...

But that's the only way to get to what you're saying. That we must completely ignore the concern, because other concerns unequivocally...

shrug Folks complained, sometimes quite bitterly, about feeling "interrogated" before--yes, that word was actually used. If someone...

My understanding was that the only reason Lanefan brought it up was to say, basically, "yeah, this really did have rules, and this is...

Wheras for me, having my efforts snatched away from me even the one time would be a pretty serious party foul, and having it happen...

Okay...but the point was that you could not EVEN IN THEORY know that you'd gotten too much. There is no rhyme nor reason to who lasts...

So, if the PC's didn't go to that exact location, that random encounter would not happen?

No, you're playing the game wrong. When your argument gets shown to be without merit, instead of accepting that your argument was...

Whether it is like that or not in-play is not necessarily relevant. Someone, upthread, used a specific example from earlier (the "save a...

More the point was that "showing your work", as it were, exclusively after "your work" no longer communicates anything, won't really...