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What this ignores, though, is the idea of there being external factors that ruined what otherwise would have been a perfect shot. An...

This tangent was taken from discussions of fail forward techniques. There's nothing wrong with those techniques (even if I don't really...

Have you ever played billiards? You know, hit the white ball with a cue trying to hit another ball into a pocket, called pool in the...

Problem with the runes example was not that it was made up on the spot. If the GM had decided on the spot before any roll was made what...

Generally years long, with lots of sessions that ranged from 3 to 8 hours. I can't really be more specific- each was different, and the...

These are always good. I sometimes find my long-term characters switching between static and story-resolving and back depending on the...

That might be in part because they threw out all the data from the older - and thus likelier to be longer-term players - respondents.

What level spell is this one? :)

The TSR editions (other than BECMI) tended to kinda tap out around 12th if not sooner, with the "sweet spot" being about 3rd-8th. 3e...

As someone who is in a stable group (over 20 years now) and has done I think eight level 1-20 campaigns in that time (and a couple of...

I actually left one out- it's seven groups. I play in three and run four. The first one I play in is every other Friday, but we miss...

Correct. I have a second, DM-side version of the map with lots more info on it. This is one of those "fill in a blank spot on the map"...

As always I dread to discuss immersion, but this whole thing feels like a diversion from arguing that player and character decision...

This seems to come down to a simple question of whether diegetics can survive being put through the strainer of the abstractions we need...

Adding fluff and detail does not change the essence of the fiction. No author of any book ever fills in exactly every detail. No plans...