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If you accept hit points while wanting simulationist mechanics as a general principle, it makes it very hard for us, as outsiders to...

I'm not, and have never been, saying you should. I have been responding to someone else who had said that it was a "structural...

For what it's worth - maybe not much - your play seems to me to include narrativist inclinations/tendencies, using the 5e D&D chassis...

Did you read my original post? Because it looks like you didn't read my original post. Where I specifically and explicitly said both...

Yes, I was in fact talking about that. I really did refer to the modules in specific: ---- "I can do whatever I want" has never, in my...

I think this sort of pawn stance with a splash of colour thrown over it is very common. And is what a typical D&D module/AP encourages...

He's joining our table, our ways. If I were joining another table I'd acclimatize to their style of play. We have a reward system in...

I remember when I was running a game for entirely new players/friends in the middle of the 2020 “everybody’s online” period they kept...

But do you see my point, Max? Or do you just want to keep trying to be technically right?

Gotta say, this thread is going to make for an incredible resource for an academic paper on the fragility of the Gamer Personality(tm)...

Again… sounds like a GM problem. Or maybe a combo of that player and GM. This isn’t generally a problem in the games I’ve run or...

Of your strong opinions I see consistently, this is the one that really makes me bristle every time. I disagree fervently, and I...

I think you’ve missed the point. If you have “that guy” pushing for a roll without doing anything to inform the fiction, then you tell...

Notice the phrase "too strident" in what I posted. I can understand people who consider things like armor class or hit points the price...

So: As a GM, you're (generic you're) going to act certain ways. But also, you don't want to see those ways written down. This makes...