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Yeah, those are probably the only place we'll see a mind goblin showing up. True, true, but by that same token, they took the risk of...

To me, this still seems to involve a bit of a non-sequitur - because a physical altercation can involve meaningful stakes other than...

If someone else hadn't made the joke, I was going to.

In the Homeric poems, Zeus also guides fate, weighing Hector vs Achilles, and so on. It isn't like any of the old mythological systems...

Sure. But it then follows that simply stating your preference will not really inform others of your thinking.

Whereas, despite being a GM, I approach it almost purely from a player perspective. I'm a player. I want my choices to matter. When my...

This is an empirical conjecture. My experience doesn't bear it out. Yes, agreed.

As I've noted before, this would define the vast majority of superhero campaigns as having no significant stakes. Yeah, no.

Whereas I find that character death makes players entirely check out of the game. "Oh, my character can just die randomly despite my...

This is a common sentiment when this topic comes up, but what it really reveals is the shallowness of the campaign in question, or the...

Defeat in combat doesn't have to mean death. I know that in D&D that's the default; but it's possible to narrate being dropped to zero...

There have been variant kobolds of various colors at various points, and the coloring on the main entry art in 3rd/3.5 was ambiguous...

While I understand that you see character death as absolutely necessary for any actions to have any meaning, there really are other...

There are stories and traditions in which the Greek Fates could be placated - for that to have meaning, they must have some influence on...

Yeah...this is why I always have a good conversation with the GM of a game about these kinds of things before agreeing to join a...