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If the rules or the players' action declarations or the dice or the situation dictate that these characters will die then I-as-DM feel...

While we don't agonize over every second of the PCs' existence, if it comes to a question of playing a given situation out in more...

Can't speak to Conan but in Frodo's case it's because his captors were, collectively, idiots. Same is true of many a James Bond...

When the players do stuff with their PCs, no matter how unimportant it might seem to the GM, the fiction is not "entirely unchanged".

The rules are important, but the fiction matters more. It's not collaborative storytelling. It's a game where the rules don't take...

The relevant feature for me is, to put it simply, character development. Wa-a-ay more of my characters' development comes through...

Okay. That's not how we do it. Any area, including a city, has the potential for CR 20+ stuff. The farther out you go, the more...

Perhaps. Not necessarily. In a true sandbox, the players won't know any of this until-unless they have their characters make some...

He usually strikes me as one of the most coherent arguments in this thread; I just think (and we've interacted enough in the past I...

Yes, we discussed this to death a few thousand posts ago. No one's imaginary gameworld is an accurate and comprehensive simulation with...

I think Micah is possibly the one person here open and clear that his preferences are such that “hewing as close to fictional reality”...

It's bending over backwards when a) the "something interesting" is clearly contrived just for that purpose and otherwise makes no...

This is one of those glorious kitchen-sink threads, where everything gets talked about at once rather than in fifteen different threads...

On a slightly different point, this comment helped me identify more clearly the problem I have with fail forward in a more grounded...

I am willing to accept that I am a gaming conservative (though I still don't like the nasty implications of the term). I object to it...