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So I agree with the basic premise, negotiation can lead to degenerate gameplay and yet in practice I observe most 5e play doesn’t...

Do they? Or is it indeed the GM that listens to player input, and from that migrate fictional possibilities into actualities? The...

Prompting the dm to consider whether there is a cleric there that wasn’t pre authored by him still has nothing to do with the persuasion...

The assigned role of the DM though is to run a campaign fairly and to have fun. He has no "in world" objectives. It is why he...

Well I believe it, but it’s hard for me to understand why.

I mean, it’s the entire point of doing it that way. It gives players more agency over the fiction. It makes player driven either...

I’m in disbelief that I’m even having to point out that a d&d persuasion check involving an established cleric that can cast remove...

But not to decide what that information is. No. The character decides that they try to persuade the cleric to cast the spell, and they...

They do this not by authoring the cleric exists and has the spell they want him to cast but by persuading an already established cleric...

No. You cannot rewrite reality (our reality) and make words say things they don't. If a player chooses to author some fiction, that is...

It's not hard to understand. People just don't like it.

When I propose a difference you say it’s not. So if you aren’t denying differences altogether, then what differences in your cleric...

It’s not clear what you see established about the cleric before the persuasion check. If it’s just that this is a level 5 cleric that...

I don’t pretend those activities are the same decision space for player and character. They are clearly not. I can’t tell if your...

Also why I bristle when someone suggests that the rest of the game should be structured more like the combat, wanting some tactical...