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Heh. How to say you only play D&D without saying you only play D&D. ((Sorry, that might be more snarky than it's meant. It is meant...

Gotta admit, this is a new one to me. I've never had a player even suggest this one. Yeah, no. Lantern on belt is a no-no. It just...

No. That's what YOU are insisting we talk about. No one else is talking about this. I presume that this is something that has been...

But, you've got this backward. The DM has had the NPC try to persuade the PC to do something and is rolling for the NPC. It's not that...

Again, you never allow players to persuade an NPC to do something they would never do, so, why are you allowing an NPC to do it? If the...

That is flat out untrue. Since the check will not make the PC do something that the character would never do, your "no agency at all"...

From my personal point of view, the reason for this is pacing. I want my games to have a MUCH higher pace than you do. We've had...

But, you just got through saying that adding mechanical heft to this is impossible since players cannot be trusted to act in good faith...

Again though, let's not get too far into the weeds. We're not talking about "ways". We're talking about a single way. Same as a social...

The problem here is that different systems have different granularity for rolls. For example, if a system has an "Explore" roll - be it...

Kinda, yeah. But I've written about the problems and nature of second-order design before, as well as the issues and differences with...

Do you allow players to persuade NPC's to do things that that NPC would never do? Through a simple die roll? Do you allow PC's to mind...

No one knows. Or at least, it seems to me that there are several things being discussed at the same time. For a while it was the...

This kind of play, I feel, is fostered because of D&D where the overwhelming real consequence in the game is PC Death (even for NPCs)...

I'm sorry, but there are all sorts of games that do exactly that. You get hit, take damage, and the mechanics tell you how you react...