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I guess I'd better repeat: that riddle-door situation only happened once. Most of the time we solve puzzles pretty fast (sometimes...

The agency to play my character in the way I want to play it is the only type of player agency that matters. Without that, no other...

Might I offer an ‘out’? A single mechanic on its own may not recognizably support one interest-set (leaving aside whether GNS or GN or...

Depends. If one approaches the whole game as more or less a puzzle of exploration, trial and error, and discovery (in both the...

Right I once played a large dumb brute of a barbarian, he once seen the small goblin wizard cast shield and block the attack of a stone...

This is untrue. People have said to extend basic trust, not total. I said to look for patterns of behavior that pointed at actual...

I thought there'd be several, but no luck.

I'm playing a character - or maybe more than one, depending on situation - and that's it. That character is, I hope, an individual...

True, but those things are part of the Living World I like to see in games I play too.

Oh, I'll gladly admit to being a chaos gremlin. :) Not with every character, but certainly with some. And I'm far from the...

I have been in many a party that ventured into PvP territory. On a couple occasions I was even an Iinstigator of it, but in none of them...

Which is also fine, as different people are going to have different "tells" if-when they are lying and each listener is likely going to...

As long as there is something else you can do then why not?

If I want the players to know that the NPC is nervous or lying, I've always been able to make it pretty obvious.

Reality, Ohio, is a very small unincorporated community.........................