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Exactly. "Common sense" is often neither common to all participants in a game, nor particularly sensible! And yes, I have found very...

It means the GM's view of common sense. This is why most RPG worlds make no sense politically or sociologically, because - notoriously...

Except that well-constructed mechanics are specifically a thing IN ORDER TO get people on the same page. Like...that's one of the most...

As with far, far too many things, I find that the issue isn't the approach itself. It is the unfamiliarity of the approach. You are...

For me, the difference is that acceptance/allowance/etc. (I've used more than one term in the thread, my apologies!) has an expiration...

Respect must also be earned. Respect takes much longer to earn than basic trust, because you have to meet a much higher bar. That is...

A "deity of alcohol"? No. The wine cult predates Dionysus. I know this is a religious thing. But a "deity of alcohol" who would damn...

You can reject it all you like. It is literally true. This is actually fact. You are, quite literally, denying actual facts. How can...

Totally unsatisfactory. No one--not even the GM--deserves trust. It must be earned. That's what trust is. I agree that allowance of...

That doesn't answer the question though. Like this is a complete and total dodge of actually answering the question. "Sometimes those...

No, you don't understand. You can't chop your way through. Any cubes you chop through are immediately replaced by more. That's what the...

Mostly at the edges. Dexterity is still Initiative and a stupidly large number of skills, and has been for as long as there have been...

This reads to me as "well no, but actually yes." Calling it "dumb" is precisely the problem here. It is so monumentally dumb, I can't...

I've been going through unprecedented growth of character over the last 15 years. I have a lot of love in my heart for AD&D 1E, but it's...

Not sure if this has gotten a response from someone else yet (with over 12 pages of replies, that's at least 220 posts, and I just do...