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Sounds like a perfectly good Ahab and the White Whale moment to me.

Going from memory it stated nothing about the goal of climbing the cliff. It was that you climb the cliff, the friend is dead because...

I’ve never understood this and it’s from 2 perspectives. 1. You advocate for a technique where any 1 of hundreds of die rolls could...

This seems to be along the lines of "when should one's opponent in chess knock over their king". Ought they to wait until checkmate is...

When the table I'm using is written out on paper, "not having rules at all" no longer applies. I've never watched Matt Colville run a...

With rare exceptions, pretty much hard 'no' for me. The PCs are part of the setting just like anyone else, it's what they do that makes...

It works fine for me. :) Just as in the Game of Thrones books, you run it in chapters - play one party for a while, then put them on...

Kids playing on a playground. As a DM, I provide the structures with hints of what you could use them for. The players decide on how...

Further to a discussion several hundred posts upthread about DMs revealing hidden information when it doesn't matter any more, this just...

Part of the issue is that there's no way of knowing which lowlights now will affect which highlights later until (sometimes quite a...

I was reflecting on the proposition that the two sequences of play (where L is lowlight and H is highlight) LLLHLLHLLLH HHH would...

The GM could just say that but IMO it would all depend on just what's going on up there. If the friend is in combat then probably best...

Oh, my players absolutely took this route to convincing the bugbears (or was it the Hobgoblins?) in Lost Mines that they should stop...

There is a fix to this, though 5e-by-RAW types sure wouldn't like it. If A's initiative is 15 and her declared action is to move, then...

Because the roll is about trying to climb a wall (presumably using a metric related to climbing), not why you're climbing a wall. That's...