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Here is the introduction to the D&D basic rules, on DnD Beyond: The Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game is about storytelling in worlds...

Are the players informed, in advance, about this "logical conclusion given setting assumptions"? Or are they expected to work it out for...

Here is @hawkeyefan's post, to which you are replying: And what you are stating - "in sandbox play, you generally aren't doing this" -...

OK, then why do you seem to misdescribe them?

Is this because you think there's a difference between using reaction tables, and making the decision unilaterally and in secret as a...

What is the relationship between the last two sentences, and the first one? Classic Traveller's bribery rules, for instance, create a...

The nice thing about formalized rules is that by agreeing to play under them, all the participants accept that implicit accountability...

Yet, as far as I know, you resolve combat in your RPGs under the constraint of mechanical systems, rather than just GM adjudication of...

I don't think anyone supports forcing things on others in the context of voluntary leisure activities. To the extent that I don't really...

The second sentence seems self-contradictory. And the first is just wrong. The phrase "legislating at the game level" makes no sense...

The point of analysis is, among other things, to explore unconscious biases, preconceptions, and so on at work in play. "Owning up to...

1. Ask your contacts in the city’s underworld whether they have a contact in the guards who is bribeable. 2. Surveil the guard and...

Luckily, when I play I can trust my GM not to railroad. And to apply the rules of the game. You seem to imply it's a character flaw, in...

Right... but most games would say to let the dice resolve that uncertainty. When it's just "well I envisioned this guard as a highly...

Because on this account every game is a sandbox as long as the GM doesn't ignore the players' choices. So a game in which the GM riffs...