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Restoring or preserving fairness--as noted above--rarely has any positive impact on the player's experience. I brought up the Dark Souls...

I would argue that what you describe isn’t what is happening. Instead, what you get is more akin to “Trad DMs would never add setting...

Yes. So they appear or disappear out of nowhere--just out of sight. Exactly as video games do. Almost always with a planned possible...

As stated, that does not to me sound like there is unfairness in the combat. The GM made a mistake, doing something stronger than they...

Whereas, for me, I think we should apply the rules--which everyone can see, so they know what they're getting--fairly. If the results...

I laid out what "fairness" means--at least to me. A rule that is applied consistently is fair. A rule that is applied inconsistently is...

But strangely, you don't like having rules telling you how to GM. There you want guidelines--meaning you have to make up the GM role on...

"Balancing encounters a touch" by adding additional foes is exactly "spawning in" enemies. If it's being done to "balance" the...

How is that possible? Seriously. If the encounter is too strong to be beaten, that isn't "unfair to the players". It is fair that some...

Not at all. It is most strongly motivated by: Preserving the appearance that the GM does not make mistakes Preserving the "experience"...

He made his, I made mine. He opened the door to a gamist note when mentioning the players enjoyed getting crits.

That's been my point all the way along though. I'm not the one insisting that setting changes cannot be done. Of course they are done...

The weakness of such allegory is that as by externalising these aspects of human experience to distinct and fixed groups, you elide the...

Exactly. In a book filled with spectacular advice and great design it's one of maybe four hiccups.

I think this is better advice than what is given in the book. Like, I realize they wanted to give people a rule of thumb, and a certain...