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Most games where the dm doesn’t roll have the players make all rolls. So a roll randomized still happens it’s just the player rolling...

Sure, but that also happens when players make all the rolls. If I roll, I'm surprised by the players. If I don't roll, I'm surprised by...

The thing is that you're moving the goalposts from "stolen from the PCs, especially in an invasive way with no respect for precautions...

It’s a tangent and not related to the OP but I can’t agree with you here. There is a huge difference between the - as you say - popular...

It never occured to me that the plot "your stuff got stolen" was particularly common, I've not had any adventures involving that yet. I...

Yes, they require limitations. But the thing is that if the way by which the PCs were prevented from leaving seems contrived to the...

I agree with your first paragraph for some scenarios. But for something like escaping a plane, in a game like D&D where players rarely...

The GM literally are god in many RPGs. If something happens to a player character its on the GM. If a GM can randomly steal players...

Yes - this seems pretty obvious to me! Quite.

Well, I was commenting on what @Micah Sweet shared, and his exchange with @TwoSix . But if you don’t think they’re necessary, that...

Here's a character sheet from Cthulhu Dark: Name: Jack Occupation: Longshoreman I GMed a session of Cthulhu Dark where someone played...

No but it makes it pretty bloody useless to try and get consensus on. It is what it is.

I think you're misreading my post. I'm saying the rules exist to check "narrative contrivance". Transferring authority to the setting...

Trying to do something different and interesting isn't the same as exclusionary. The fact that people felt that way is something else...

Yeah, I see this kind of comment fairly frequently, and I know I’ve seen you say it plenty of times. To me, it makes about as much sense...