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But if the PCs are aware of that pattern as you suggest, why wouldn't they act on that knowledge?

It is if you're arbitrarily blocking an action that is clearly allowed by the rules and supported by the fictional situation. It is not...

I've always preferred, "you can certainly try" over "no" myself.

I'm sorry, I could get more detailed, but I do feel at this point the nitpicking is going to continue no matter how thoroughly I type...

Yeah, so blatant railroading; that is terrible GMing. GM should merely remind the players of the time pressure, what might happen if...

If characters don't know their abilities mechanically, wouldn't there be moments where the wizard tries to cast Fireball but fails to do...

So my issue with this is that the character and player decision space becomes divergent. Like the characters cannot make plans based on...

Emphasis added. That's why time pressure is important. It's not that difficult to do, either, in a narrative fashion. And if the...

This. The rules are there to inform the players about things the character knows and feels intuitively and are of course in part an...

"My magic has yet to recover. We may still face significant peril, so I say we wait a day or two before we face the enemy head on." The...

FWIW, I don't think that contemporary approaches to TTRPGs are necessarily opposed to simulationism as was earlier discussed. However, I...

I think this issue of NPC and PC build and stats is an interesting one. D&D did not try to establish any sort of parallel or...

Pretty sure that's just one subjective interpretation of how to translate the mechanics of spellcasting into the setting.

I want to highlight a few passages which I think will be important later (it will be important when we get to checks). I think we're...

That's not minutiae. That's literally the single most important source of power in 5e. Knowing when your powers become available to...