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I mean I feel like this is a pretty straightforward yes/no question. If you had to choose between ruining a player's experience...

Because I would be able to give actual, concrete examples I have personally played or run, rather than pure hypotheticals. I don't...

It 100% comes across as extremely flippant about player investment and preferences, yes, and treating the player's enjoyment of the game...

But I thought "ask the DM every time" was the correct and intended thing for D&D 5e? Like that was literally all people could talk about...

No. The point was, if it is on the table in the first place, it must have been possible to begin with. If it wasn't possible to begin...

So verisimilitude is more important than players enjoying the characters they wish to enjoy.

Short-and-sweet name for a useful thing to do when figuring out what a group wants from a game (e.g., something to deploy during Session...

I'd say the signal to noise ratio isn't great, but when you do get signal, it's something good. Panning for gold, one might say; a...

Do you feel that way about dice rolls/mechanics resulting in character death?

Fully agreed. There definitely sounds like some desire to have one's cake and eat it too, here, from those waving the "player agency"...

Other than gaining some biographical information that you’re willing to cut away a broad swathe of games and play techniques to fulfill...

I'm never going to say "Black Dragon" in the same way again.

A PC was negotiating with NPCs in Sigil. One of the NPCs used Detect Thoughts which allows one to pick up surface thoughts for free...

If it’s something that the PC would “never do”, then obviously it can’t be the result of a successful resolution roll in the game. If...

Even more specifically: it's not left there dangling as a sentence and a "ok cool, figure out how to do this." It's defined with...