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That's an easy one: because 2014 was wildly successful and they'd rather not kill the golden goose quite yet.

"I didn't just get the contents of his pocket, dammit, I got the pocket as well!" :)

Which can't possibly be the case if I-as-player am able to affect the fiction beyond what my character can know about, as seems to be...

I used to think that. Then I learned that it's very hard indeed, if one wants things like adjoining rooms and-or assorted disparate...

None of which goes any distance toward explaining the rather odd "Read Language" ability 1e Thieves pick up around 4th level and that...

Because some of us take the player and the character to be one and the same when engaging with the fiction in situations where the...

I just treat the two bolded pieces as synonymous; that a player asking "Is there a Cleric in town" means that player's character is...

They're not the same, to be sure, but I've sure seen the first discussion turn into the second on more than one occasion on a...

Perhaps, but IME* most player ejection requests are initiated by one or more other players rather than the DM. * - fortunately, all...

Same here, for the most part; but if a general handwave is enough to provide a vaguely-simulative experience on the player side, that's...

Because then you would likely have to go back and rewrite all of your history to match the newly created reality. Do you, or the players...

I just don't want to be telling to the players that their characters cannot try to cut a rope with a frozen herring just because the...

If the town is not preauthored, then the DM would have to author that fiction. He'd probably make some rolls based on the probability a...

I’m in disbelief that I’m even having to point out that a d&d persuasion check involving an established cleric that can cast remove...

It's not hard to understand. People just don't like it.