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Who says it often doesn't happen? Have you been on many overland expeditions? I haven't. My experience with them, such as it is, comes...

I don't think you're lying. But you appear to use the D&D combat rules. That's enough for me to infer how versimilitudinous combat is. I...

Yes, exactly. But that’s why you reference experts, they have access to the evidence to support the claims they’re making. But I’m not...

No protagonists? Do you just mean characters? So a cook is very likely to be found in a kitchen, right? But the cook will not spend...

Because I referred to the Burning Wheel rulebooks as evidence of how Luke Crane - one of the designers who coined the notion "fail...

Well, I think your "proper definition" is silly. I learned a few nuclear decay sequences in high school physics. I learned that the...

You are the one referring to "supposed" experts. Do you think that the rules of Burning Wheel are only "supposedly" authoritative on...

Appeal to an authority is not a fallacy. For instance, I believe that exposure to radiation in large doses is harmful to human health...

Yes, it's a consequence of failure. If you succeeded, you wouldn't suffer the complication. Eg if you get to the top of the cliff in...

I’ll do that, but 5e has added millions to the player base; obviously I can’t stop until I’m sure that every single one of them has been...

No, that's not quite right; it's a fallacy when one appeals to an authority that lacks expertise in the matter being discussed...like...

Because why not? The characters are traveling. We should assume all sorts of things they do while traveling. Foraging and hunting would...

You could even say it's "exhausting". :)

An appeal to authority is fallacious in the case where the authority isn't a credible responder to the question being asked. The...

It's a skill that needs to be developed and you are basically starting at square one as a GM. Experience running more conventional games...