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Exactly. If I invite people over for board game night, I expect them to be open to most board games, although I expect a veto to pop up...

I think things like dragon fear and the charmed condition are examples that prove otherwise. Yes, they mostly have the lampshade of...

For most folks, I wouldn't expect the tribal aspect to matter at all.

Nah. I definitely am going to assume a trad gamer is open to other gaming styles until proven otherwise.

There's nothing to do here with validity. It's reasonable to have the expectation that your median gamer has little knowledge of how...

It's nothing to do with my preferences. It's the fact that classic play and trad play are far older and have more adherents and people...

Right. That is the core gameplay loop for D&D and most conventional RPGs. It's not for a number of games. Including fairly conventional...

But the lack of courage is caused by something external. And it may be an involuntary response. Now... some people don't want that in...

I regularly remind players of things their characters should remember that they don't. If it's been 2 hours for a character but 3 weeks...

I don't think anyone is wrong about what they would prefer, but I do think people who lack experience say some pretty phenomenal wild...

That's generally how I would do it as well. Whether I use approximate odds (easy, moderate, etc.) or exact odds ("You need a 12 or...

And if you roll a 1 on your Climb check, that is what happens. But most cases, it seems to me that a character that is trained in...

Your ability to influence play of a game as a player is different than your ability to influence the real world as a person. There's...

Just saw this after sending my previous post. This is a huge part of what I'm talking about. Just being aware of how we as GMs control...

For the record I have never stated that characters should have more information (in more conventional play) than makes logical sense...