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Wasn’t there an entire thread or side tangent of a thread about 2024 DMG complaining about the idea of communication tools being...

When I do stuff like this in most games I run right now, it’s a “pay a cost to resist or succumb” type situation. Blades gives me Stress...

Note, as I commented before, that's not how some people will feel about it; they'll see it as a failure where you've been tossed a bone.

Plus Sherlock didn't diagnose you with lupus and almost kill you three times before miraculously coming up with the answer.

Though, I have to say as someone who's only dipping in every few pages, the ratio of comments to participants is clearly very high.

This is very much a misreading and misunderstanding of how social mechanics work. In exactly the same way that social mechanics cannot...

Well, if nothing else, we seem to be containing our nonsense to a single thread which is nice.

Well, House MD isn't Sherlock. By being a different character, even if he is inspired by the (crappy) interpretations of Sherlock...

I'm saying it needs to be one or the other--and the character needs to remain consistent from one instance to the next. If player A can...

I can't say I'm surprised that you would cavalierly destroy the things that make your players enjoy your game in order to uphold perfect...

Because I would be able to give actual, concrete examples I have personally played or run, rather than pure hypotheticals. I don't...

It 100% comes across as extremely flippant about player investment and preferences, yes, and treating the player's enjoyment of the game...

A regular basis??! Martyrs are known because they are exceptional, no? As for the rest, people overestimate their willpower all the...

Ok, so I (mostly) agree with pretty much everything you've written here*, especially these parts: "The GM doesn’t own the PCs." "It...

You keep bringing up one bad example (instead of all the good examples that can be found by googling it, which you claim to have done)...