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Explosive Rules

What I'd like (and probably won't get, but whatever) in 6e: --- species mechanics strengthened and expanded: more baked-in benefits and...

In other words, a new enhanced version of the Exploding Runes spell. :)

With regards to D&D and other RPGs, BADD and the Moral Majority did their level best to make this connection in the 1980s and, to the...

The very fantasy settings in D&D and other RPGs reflect a different morality than modern 21st century US/Western World. You cannot have...

The same as in the real world today. Morality and definitions of what is moral and what isn't have changed greatly over real-world...

Have you talked about it with the other players? As I said earlier in the thread, my players are 100% fine with the scout going ahead...

OK then, you stop the good guys when they're in the middle of doing good guy stuff. Whatever.

My experience is precisely the opposite: they can't keep it separate and either play using that knowledge or overcompensate in trying...

Ideally, yes; if it's a mystery to the character then it should also be a mystery to that character's player. When that increased...

This makes a big underlying assumption that IMO and IME needn't always be true: that the PCs are the good guys. Yes it's marketed that...

Which makes me ask, then, if it's not necessarily immoral in play why bring it up in the first place? Most (nearly all?) D&D-like game...

Oh, same here. And while the platform I provided wasn't (and, let's be honest, still isn't) always perfect, it did the job well enough...

And then the rest of the players are left having to meta-play that their characters don't know about the lie or alteration to the info...

"I've had these conversations, now I talk with my battleaxe I've got my alignment, don't confuse me with the facts" - a line from one...