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That's been my usual experience, generally along the lines of: Player: "I try to do [something impossible in the fiction]" DM (me)...

Yet in your game Einstein indeed would cause things to be as he postulated. You cannot just reverse the causality and pretend that it...

Agreed; as DM I'd be all over this and would be fine with it as a player. However, without rules to back it up a player has a legit...

Huh. Good. In my defense, it's about 11 years since I read it... :)

Ok. I'm at Gencon right now, so I visited the Iron Crown booth and picked up a copy of Rolemaster Core Law. We'll see if everybody's...

Hard to see why, given that such things are almost always good for a laugh if nothing else.

You're conflating intent and action here (and also pointing out the reason I'm not thrilled with systems that demand intent as part of...

While I'm fully on board with this I suspect the designers of both 4e and 5e are not, seeing as (to the best of my knowledge and-or...

If the player rejects the DM's narrative, then they should have a mature discussion, either there or after the session. As for the rope...

No. They do not. They cannot say priest give me all your churches riches, that is the thing i want. Or priest I want you to cast...

In my opinion, yes. The DM just makes the PC an NPC or has the former PC wander off and retire or whatever, and the game continues on...

Yeah. You don't veto something like that. You simply narrate the arrow going up a few hundred feet and dropping down to stick in the dirt.

I once tried just this, when a group of PCs had unintentionally got themselves punted to what amounted to a Plane of Dreams. With...

The DM isn't reality in that manner. The DM is reality in that they play the game universe and everything in it. That doesn't mean...

The look of my character Black Leaf is very much patterned after the DM in this game.