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I've always found it weird that metacurrencies are considered a narrative mechanic. Their meta-narrative nature always distinguished...

Try to read again. It was not the characters, but the actions of the characters that was claimed to be less substantive. This is a...

Fortunately for me, what I wanted from the 2014 DMG was a worldbuilding guide, because its by far my favorite part of the game.

A wealthy noble with a closet of holding to manage their hopeless fashion addiction seems well within the bounds of D&D.

No, I'm defining failure as failure and success as success. They're a binary thing, and can't both happen at once. What you're not...

I can think of a rather ridiculous number of cliffs and banks that I tried and failed to climb as a kid (and a much lower number where I...

Then you can count me in that number as well, although it depends on the check. Previous versions had this a bit more spelled out that...

I'm not sure citing persons who self-identified simulationists reject as having mischaracterised their playstyle is a particularly good...

When the roll says fail and yet you narrate success anyway, what was the point of the roll? Or was success always guaranteed and the...

And two comments I thought that revealed things in a particular salient way. @pemerton doesn't mean this positively, but I think it...

In days of old, perhaps, but I think most people today tend to use "castle" for any big structure made of stone that isn't a church...

Wasn't the whole issue that PbtA doesn't have "you just fail" as an option?

In my games if the player takes time to examine the cliff and can see enough detail I'll give them a check which would lower the target...

I know some people were complaining about being stuck with a secret door in Rime if the Frostmaiden. They were really stuck behind...

In fairness, we aren't told the staffing levels of this hypothetical house. If it's Downton Abbey then sure, there's multiple kitchen...