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I can see it. So much that causes hit point damage can't possibly be doing any real physical harm in the fiction anyway.

I’m guessing it’s the equivalent of D&D’s rare/very rare/legendary tiers of magic items, so there wouldn’t be improved versions. I’m...

Bespoke terminology and extraordinarily precise verbiage?

Unfortunately, some games—like D&D—don’t have social-specific resources to be drained, which undoubtedly leads people into thinking that...

Realistically, it's pretty rare that you can't rapidly tell that people you're working with are idiots. Even assuming no interviews and...

So “GM comes up with something on the fly, players decide to move around it” isn’t a satisfying answer? What more do you want?

I'll admit, I'm not a fan of what the hypothetic GM did in this example, but by itself, it's not indicative of anything, which is why...

Consider a locked door. The PCs want something in the room on the other side of the door. The PCs use Stone Shape to make a hole in the...

Hey, the verb form is used pretty darn often! 😀 PbtA games do tend to have a “one true way”-ism feel to them, which can be very...

Again, appreciate the explanation. But this thread is the first time I remember seeing a real definition although it would have been...

@overgeeked, I think a psionic domain (Thought?) should be made and then used to replace Codex, thus turning wizards and bards into...

One thing I always do is look at how you could do something like Dark Sun in whatever fantasy game comes out. Surprisingly there's very...

Except I’ve described how it works without pre-planning several times already.

Not quite. An encounter is also a thing that will occur unless steps are taken to prevent it from occurring. I see you coming toward...

I'd define it as a foreseeable or foreseen encounter that was intentionally avoided by the PCs. That takes the planning piece out of it...