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Fair enough. Edit: Although in looking over the maneuver, it's still one that's only rarely going to affect PCs--I don't think many DMs...

It used to be that you subtracted your armor value from the damage you took in order to figure out your damage threshold (most of the...

These are vastly different in one key way: In the murder example, the inability to act is (by system decree) due to something internal...

Ravenloft had rules like this. I was and am fine with that, but I would also want to explicitly discuss the use of such rules and what...

Yes, I think it removes the fun because it takes what could be an interesting discussion between PCs or their players and turns it into...

Well, I honestly don't know of really any games that actually allow one PC to force another PC to think or act a certain way due to...

Depends on whether Player/PC 2 is allowed to voluntarily concede the duel of wits before (or even after) the roll is made.

Two things of interest here: 1. There's nothing there saying another player can call for a Steel test, only the GM can. 2. If in my...

When I asked you if every single thing a player wants to do needs to be rolled for, you said no. So which is it? If every single...

At one point up thread I asked @pemerton whether my living world campaign was a railroad (his definition), at first he evaded the...

Yeah it is. That the players are OK with it, or even wanted it, is irrelevant. Having an adventure where there is only one option to...

Absolutely. I've played and run many games like that. As a GM, I expect players to play these traits out and earn the benefits they...

You also said that a player "put on their GM hat" and insisted on the roll. Insist =/= suggest. No. This was about an unusual...

I would not "find out" anything about my character other than that I failed or succeeded a die roll. But this argument is just on repeat.

A perception check or knowledge/history check is not an emotional state check.