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Well then, I consider that objection pretty seriously problematic, if retrocausality is totally unacceptable from one participant and...

I tried to "cut the cord" with WotC. I literally didn't find games. The absolute, overwhelming hegemony of D&D is too much.

Nothing comes to mind, but I'm sick and operating on a grand total of three hours of sleep (2 early this morning, another 1 about five...

Not me. I'm not the one being asked to change. The game is what is being asked to change (or, where it already pleases such folks, to...

By definition, you have. To have authority MEANS to expect obedience. authority: "the power to determine, adjudicate, or otherwise...

This stance has nothing to do with my experience with GMs. Anyone--literally anyone--claiming any form of authority over others must...

This conflicts with the repeated assertion that "the GM is reality". By definition--by your definition--the GM cannot disrupt the game...

Sure. Judges don't have absolute authority in their courtrooms, but they do have extremely high authority and literally have officers of...

It's more like a puzzle where the corner pieces have been put in... ...and the GM can then spindle, fold, and mutilate the remaining...

We learn that the character did not observe the thing... And then, only AFTER knowing that the character did not observe the thing, we...

I mean, I've convinced at least a couple people in this very thread of my position, or to move closer to my position. So...kind of yeah...

I mean, yeah, I'm going to hold the person claiming "absolute authority" to a higher standard than the people who are expected to fall...

I don't understand why scale and responsibility matter when the (claimed) issue is one of principle. If it is principle that is actually...

Then why is absolute authority for GMs--meaning, absolute obedience from the players--so goddamn important?! Absolute authority for X...

... Are you seriously not noticing the demand for game design that satisfies the simulationist desire? The utter rejection of anything...