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Physical challenge vs mental challenge. The trapdoor is a clear and obvious physical challenge for the PC(s) to overcome. Physical...

If it's not about solving puzzles then why was such an obvious solve-this-puzzle situation presented?

While it may not affect your greater point, I feel obliged to point out that the two modules you reference here weren't entirely...

I don't object to an abstracted mechanic in principle, but I prefer the abstraction be minimized. My main issue with the runes example...

Vegetable juice? Hell, no. He's using a big ol' Cadillac gas-guzzlin' engine from the 1970s. :)

In all fairness, taken at face value I have to agree with this. Which means my issue isn't with what the player did in this case, it's...

In fairness, running it that way is usually light-years easier on the DM; which may well be why a lot of them do it.

I don't think so but maybe for different reasons than the ones Umbran mentioned. Most of the 5e campaigns I played or ran tended to fall...

I do, in that it seems reasonable to posit that older players and DMs will tend towards having settled in to what they're doing, and-or...

Yes, you can easily be both iconic and boring. Like Superman.

I'm not sure I'm following the argument. As long as there's no deception as to the premise, the players are agreeing to the terms...

This is a big point of contention. You seem to believe that mutually happy compromise is possible 99% of the time, and look to accuse...

Well, if they have enough players for the campaign, they obviously sold it well enough!

This is just your strawman scaremongering you always resort to in these discussions. Of course the GM needs to sell their premise to the...

Yes, some of your original sets did not include dragonborn. However, in the later example a GM has chosen a set, and the difference...