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I disagree that kobolds have evolved, considering both Drak and Alrune are attested "dragon-type" names for certain kobolds in German...

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Terrin is unsure of the loyalty of a former rival of Imani, but he has no time for mistrust. "I accept your help and will follow you...

It's a possibility, yes, but you've been posting as if it's a preordained certainty in all cases that characters have no knowledge of...

How was it established the character was previously unaware of and had no opportunity to acquire information about dragons? Do you play...

Team Infiltrate One-by-one, Imani's Agents dropped through the open grate, with Copper closing it behind them and making it more...

Player knowledge doesn't preclude character knowledge. It's just orthogonal, as is your tangent about metagaming.

No, not really. Why wouldn't characters know anything about dragons?

Player skill, when the DM plunks down a dragon mini painted (or describes a dragon of) a particular color, players with the experience...

They go back to a series of articles Gary Gygax published in a Diplomacy fanzine called Thangorodrim in 1969 and 1970. Gygax seems to...

I wonder if you've ever read Elfs, by Ron Edwards. You might find it interesting. Essentially the characters are dumbass lowlifes, and...

In Burning Wheel, the rule for failure is this (I'm quoting from Gold Revised p 31; the text on p 34 of Revised is pretty similar)...

I'm curious about this possibility with regard to conflict resolution. Even though it honors the failure result of the roll (i.e. it...

This sounds like it doesn't so much give the GM in BW and TB2e authority over genre and/or fictional positioning, and so might not come...