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I think if the conclusion here is "people dislike narrative games for well founded reasons about what they get out of play" rather than...

If in-character prep doesn't and can't improve your root chance of there being no complications, then why bother? All your prep can do...

I want to emphasize and pull out this point because it demonstrates exactly my problem with these systems. Here, the players took some...

If you're in the woods and encounter a bear does it matter if it's not the same bear you would have encountered a couple miles east...

The very thing you frame as problematic here we would frame as a virtue. As players we want an experience where all that is possible...

it makes a difference because then it matters what approach the PCs take in the entry, the NPCs do exist in their set locations, the GM...

Of those, I'm always fine with 11. 12 can be cool too: they expect an Ogre but only find its looted corpse, clearly slain by swords -...

I think we're in broad agreement here, though the devil is in the details. :) Where I prefer the granular approach, within reason, as...

1e had some rules and guidelines (in the DMG, I think) around recruiting and treatment of henches, but I think pay was intended to be...

That was meant to be in there. I just made a quick edit to 5, from "If the attacker moves first, delay their attack by 1 initiative...

Personally I like to keep things a bit less granular and more abstract. I privilege location and placing over initiative and speed. My...

Well, and possibly how fast they'll tend to. If most skill accumulation in a day-to-day situation is a lot slower than in high-stress...

It's a problem the moment you need even one replacement, for any reason: --- an existing PC gets captured long-term and its player...

Following on from my previous post: Yet another very related question is whether rules and game mechanics apply equally to PCs and NPCs...

"Most of my hair has already sailed into the west..."