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I don't see how a GM prevents that in my experience.

Businesses do, in fact, have hierarchy. Often one actually backed up by the force of law, ultimately. Friendships, in general, do not...

It would seem inaccurate caricature is not exclusive to those who are critical of classic gameplay styles.

Good. Sustained bad-faith player behavior should get no more (nor less) respect than bad-faith GM behavior.

I had a fellow player insist his Paladin taking on an assassination contract without even bothering to check if the target was guilty...

Do you want me to answer the question, or respect your choice to bow out? I feel I've gotten a mixed message here. But the TL;DR of my...

But that isn't the only way to create party interdependence. 4e was--by far--the best edition yet made for actually inducing party...

If the GM is guaranteed to occasionally act in bad faith, should we not prepare for that inevitability, rather than shrugging and...

If one plays with bad faith players, then I suppose you can't trust them to interpret their character correctly, especially their...

Genuinely: Why should we design a game with the expectation that characters will be kinda bad at most of the things they'll do, and only...

Utility is a fancy word for "do everything". They were useful in combat (fireball, magic missile), exploration (invisibility, dimension...

Hell, you barely even have that. At least in Gauntlet, it's always some kind of combat challenge so you're always contributing.

My goal is not to be bored when playing my character. If all the fighter can do it fight, the cleric heal, the thief find traps and the...

Oh, no I understood what you meant (I think, anyway). I was just expressing my position, because it seemed so at odds with the position...

Why? ALignment is based on character right? And PC's have primacy control over their character no?