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How can D&D be both a simulationist game and worship at the altar of the hp god?

In Monster of the Week, there's a move called Manipulate Someone. It can be used on another PC. If the manipulator succeeds on their...

Moving on from there being a conventional wisdom of what roleplaying games are and can be is an improvement from my perspective. Not...

I disagree. They're very different from what a sandbox GM is doing in trad games.

I disagree on both. You're framing player motivation as something inherently suspect. That because players express themselves through a...

I find the idea that you don't care about standards beyond your own game to be dubious given the nature of the majority of your posts...

Is this fair? Doesn't this reasoning presume bad faith? The whole argument is built on the assumption that players are trying to get...

A standard would be one true way... which given your tendency to rail against that... or even prescribed methods in many cases... I...

Why does the label matter? Do you think fail without retry is a useful part of your repertoire as a D&D GM? Then use it. Do you think...

Right, but we’ve moved past the point where there is a conventional wisdom about this. Because the conventional wisdom aligns with your...

At bare minimum in order to get to the point where we can even roll the dice we need to establish the following: fictional positioning...

Isn't that the point? That there isn't necessarily conventional wisdom to be offered? That we've moved past the point where the “purpose...

So, there are basically 4 places we could block any given action in a roleplaying game: Intent: a character wants to do something...

That would be the conservative argument, yes.

Yes, they are. That's what makes them negative. It's the definition of the word. If it's a part of the game, and it's a known risk...