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Yes. That's why we roll dice. Wargamers worked this out 100+ years ago. It's not as if the only alternative to GM storytelling is...

It means the GM's view of common sense. This is why most RPG worlds make no sense politically or sociologically, because - notoriously...

Trust is a red herring, as I've already explained. But what makes you think the GM will have trouble following rules? I mean, I do a lot...

It doesn’t say that. But so what? I wasn’t only talking about modern D&D. My point was how practices established in the early days of...

Self-restraint means adopting some sort of principle or process or heuristic. It's not an alternative to it. EDIT: Also, what...

That's their problem (well, and the problem to some degree of the people they insist on it from). But it doesn't change that you can't...

Not nearly as much as they used to. Resource management of the mundane sort is not really a major concern with D&D these days, Lanefan...

I think some geographical space is all that's needed. Like I said, I had a sandbox that almost never left one city district. Okay, to...

Self-analysis--which is what Lanefan talked about--is not automatically "jargon-filled game theory". It still requires introspection...

Fortunately, dice do a pretty good job preventing those sort of situations from occurring. Although it would be a little weird to bribe...

Let's say you're correct in you assessing your own abilities and style here. What in the world makes you think this is at all common...

Is that so? Feel free to ask me about my play... I'll gladly answer with specifics.

See the more the GM defines the NPCs in ways that I can't interact with, and the more he keeps that information from me, and the more he...

Well, I asked these questions of @robertsconley not of you. It's fine that you answered, but if you feel they are not helpful or...

At some point, if you're going to talk about them at least, they kind of do. You don't have to want to do that, of course.