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Castle Amber and The Lost City are much-loved examples with great ideas that couldn't really fit into the 28-32 page format. Still...

Castle Amber was excellent, but not easy to run.

"Make your own fun" adventures can be great, if the table enjoys that kind of thing. In the early 1980s, for us, they were basically an...

And, frankly, again, there's a million ways to bias an encounter. Just off the top of my head: Do monsters "focus fire" - each...

There are too many problematic implications around what may properly count as a rule or a game, for me to engage with the "by its very...

But an encounter can be unfair to the players, due to bad design. Me changing it on the fly could make it fair to the players.

This example does not match what I described. If a poker tournament's rules expressly state that telepathy is allowed, it can hardly be...

Yes, in fact if the books declare you can do it, it does mean that it isn't cheating. The players have access to the books. They have...

I don't think it's an answer of convenience. Degree is the difference between a tap and a punch, or a glass of water and a swimming...

That is also true. And, of course, there are non-cheaty ways to get around these issues as well. Like running away. Weak enemies could...

I do have to point out you can think its ethically OK but think there's a loss of something in the illusion of the game if its visible...

See, on the issue of fudging - it's more nuanced than simply changing die rolls. I mean, I've been playing online with VTT's for about...

What unchangeable by the DM rule did the DM violate?

I miss morale, and the reaction roll.

Come to think about it, I could just state at the beginning that "I might have missed some parts of the design of the monsters. Do you...