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The real question is did they account for the fact that the people are driving upside down because they're in Australia?

Is there a reason why you can't just make it up in your head instead of random tables? Do you simply not want to? Is it something you...

This. Back in 1e, there was an optional rule in the DMG that, after every in-game month, the players needed to make percentile checks...

Sure. But the core point remains: even from the very foundation of the hobby, even from the moment that what most folks see as the...

In my group, I tend to read a lot of RPGs and then write up reviews for them for my friends to read. This is primarily to help me...

It's not skipping those details and procedures. What it's doing is not (necessarily) requiring a roll for each and every one of them...

Except those aren't constraints. They're simply the same things that every GM does, but written down in a handy bulleted list. Here's...

What is? That it's baked into the rules?

I disagree. That makes everything feel scripted and unchanging. So, what, the PCs can't interact with NPCs unless you have deemed them...

You keep pointing to an example where the consequence - the screaming cook - has not been telegraphed, has not been expressly or...

Sure, if it's a CoC-type game, where people going nuts/dying is part of the genre, fine. Players approach the genre with genre...

I think you're conflating expert knowledge (things we can't judge without extensive training) with general experience here. But not...

Who says any of us care what Luke Crane (or Gary Gygax, or Ron Edwards, or or or) have to say about this? We all make our own decisions...

Hopefully. Hopefully the GM will also let me know if there's a 1 in 20 chance of dying doing these activities.