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I don't see it as necessarily being poor design, though. When I design a dungeon-type adventure, unless I'm intentionally designing...

Forget the ducks, I fear the Canadian Goose PCs/NPCs.

Really? I had the players in my city-based game meet a potential adversary (potential in the sense that the players chose to talk their...

Are they? You've looked at every sandbox ever made, including the homebrew ones, and determined this is the case all the time? It's...

In isolation, they make perfect sense. When it happens every time a roll is failed, however, it quickly starts looking contrived...

And yet even then sometimes the module beat you. Could be because you missed something vital, could be because you got in over your...

For me it's about general approach. Nobody thinks D&D (or any other RPG that I know of) is a particularly good simulation of the real...

IMO. Fail forward usually invalidates some premises of traditional play. Things like: Success is completing the task not some...

Haggling is still quite common now depending on where you are. For that matter, haggling is still standard in the US for certain products.

It doesn't happen in modern stores for the most part, but it was a common practice in the time period range that D&D is set in. That's...

You don't get to tell us how we get to run our games, man. We are telling you that you can run into CR 20 stuff. Remember that running...

It's a failure completely unrelated to the failed climb check. That's the whole issue here. I want a game where if you failed the climb...

Yeah. As a DM and a player I love downtime. It's where a lot of RP lives, and its the glue that make all the high stakes crazy...

Haggling on a shopping trip in-game is something that has played out more than once at my table. Heck, even Critical Role has done it a...

Are you sure about there being no RPG that work like the real world? ;)