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1. Ask your contacts in the city’s underworld whether they have a contact in the guards who is bribeable. 2. Surveil the guard and...

that still requires trust that the DM will play their role correctly / as intended. That holds true regardless of the system. Maybe some...

and your answer to not trusting DMs is to make up rules to use and then trust those same DMs follow the rules?

If you can't trust the referee the game is probably not going to be successful regardless of what rules you have in place.

I don’t think that we have established that the DM wants the characters to do anything at all, all we know is that they won’t get it by...

they can know that the guy follows his religion very strictly and part of it is to not drink alcohol, and that he never drinks alcohol...

were the companions of the ring railroaded when they failed on the mountain pass and had to go through Moria? When would you consider...

the why is not really the relevant part, the fact that one NPC being ‘immune’ to being persuaded of one thing has no bearing on it being...

Or he turns you in for attempted bribery. Or at the very least doesn't let you through the gate. Where if the situation were real they...

I am agreeing that a DM just acting on their fancy is a problem, I am disagreeing that unless there is a procedure to prevent this at...

Fair enough! Unlike @pemerton I genuinely could not care less what the old editions of D&D had to say except as a matter of historical...

I believe this line from a post of yours started this sidetrack If the DM deciding does not mean unpredictability, then the players...

you had the following reply to a post To me that sounds like what is referenced below

5.5e or the DM side to me was a great success. 5.5e on the player side needed a whole new class skeleton reshifting. But 5.0e was too...

Notably, the attempt to tightly control TSR Intellectual Property (whence TSR for "They Sue Regularly") didnt help the business...