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So .... why then in the 20+ years of playing "trad" games with "trad" GMs has it never once occurred to any of my GMs to actually do it...

... snip ... I think this plays right along with my description of character intent. It's not simply that characters have the "agency"...

So going back to the Monte Cook separation of "player agency" vs. "narrative control". I think there is a missing component that lives...

If you want a more elegant 3.X chassis with the kind of monster templating and stats being described, then ditch Pathfinder and go...

Again, who do you think doesn't? I mean, I know of examples of D&D play that don't worry about an internally consistent world: dungeon...

OK? @Manbearcat's point, from which my post followed, was about the whether a situation is gameable. If consequences are unknowable...

I don't have time to engage with any posts (nor the large ones I've been tagged in), but I do want to say a few brief things. No I...

What you say here is reasonable but I have certainly seen many posts here (not necessarily this thread) that absolutely suggest that...

Two things on this. First, yes, I get what you’re saying. I don’t think this is something exclusive to one set of GMs. I think almost...

Yes, of course a GM can make good faith decisions for NPCs. I've said a few times that I'm not really worried about bad faith GMing...

Pretty classic technique, sure. D&D does it all the time, like in combat. 5e skills work this way too. What TB2 has done is just...

When this happens, my experience tends to indicate that it's a function of me as GM wanting to unnecessarily drag out "the mystery."...

- Put my recently purchased Ironsworn: Sundered Isles material to use. - Enjoy playing in a Pathfinder 2 campaign being run by another...

I think another thing about ratings is that, I dunno about anyone else, but my feelings about a book often change a bit over time. My...

I was curious about that one