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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...

That's almost certainly going to be an improvement, since your numerical bonus won't be used by mechanics nearly that much, so the GM...

Sure, that's fair. I was mostly trying to create an example that was distinct from the "save my friend about to be sacrificed" thing...

I joined late--the group needed a replacement for a player who had left, and we played for a couple levels before the GM decided "it...

No, that's not what I had said, though I was the one who gave the example. My example was one where the player is fighting in a place...

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

Well, at least from where I'm coming from, they should have gone with a two- or three-tier system. I haven't thought enough about how a...

And how can players distinguish that? Perhaps. As noted, you are insulated from a lot of things because your group has remained...

I don't follow. Ahab was doomed and it's quite clear from the very beginning that he's doomed. Further--isn't this the very...

Sure. But the core point remains: even from the very foundation of the hobby, even from the moment that what most folks see as the...

No. What I mean is, Advantage and Disadvantage was used as the weapon of first resort. As in, it was THE go-to thing for functionally...