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I mean, they are vague platitudes. I'm sorry. That's what they are. They don't actually mean anything. They're vague handwaving. There...

The point of analysis is, among other things, to explore unconscious biases, preconceptions, and so on at work in play. "Owning up to...

But that isn't what people tell us to do--over and over and over and over and over in these threads. It's never "the players have every...

This is what frustrates me about the "trust the GM" axiom: If the actual gameplay layer is transparently systematized in a compelling...

The appeal to the “real world” to me indicates that you have a priority other than player driven play. The amount of influence the GM...

So the answer to "why do we distrust players but trust GMs" is "because we do." Now you know why I have said the answers are...

That doesn't really answer the question, no. Whatever expectations there are, why should we distrust players more than DMs? I should...

Neither sorcerous burst nor chromatic orb is random. You decide what type they deal. Chaos bolt is random. It actually has you use one...

I'm not really sure I get what you're saying here. As GM, I can make off-battlefield stuff supremely important, in the sense that people...

Is it possible? Most certainly yes. Is it possible to do so in a way that doesn't meaningfully change the traditional uses of the six...

Well then, the TL;DR is that someone (I will note, someone who is specifically in favor of the "what the DM already knows" standard!)...

I mean, it can still be arbitrary, given what we're talking about is NOT "applying consistent internal logic", but rather "applying...

Well, to reiterate (since I have been dragged back into this thread quite against my preference in order to defend myself), I am not and...

I have, repeatedly, said precisely why that example trips it. It isn't because this person has things they cannot be persuaded to do. It...

I am otherwise checked out of the thread as explicitly said previously, because the very people complaining about terminology and...