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I always found that an endearing quirk of the game.

I don't know. I play the 1977 version, with bits of 1981 and the supplements/additional books, plus some White Dwarf stuff, mixed in...

Right and it’s been useful. It’s teased out a lot of I’m okay with this variation of it but not with this. I don’t like that because X...

I hate quoting myself, but I posit that while D&D players are generally okay with wandering monster checks made by the DM, that if...

I've played D&D like this for over a decade, so....

Though I have to point out its entirely possible to have had preferences that never aligned much with D&D that don't really align...

What?! You didn't enjoy getting most of the way through making a Traveler character only to have it die before it was even finished...

Alternatively why can’t those with a narrativist preference just be ex-d&d gamers whose preferences never aligned much with d&d who...

I haven't. I've said it doesn't work for me, because I prep stuff and it would end up with an absurdity if I did it.

This is true. It really depends on the system. In default D&D, the skill is Open Locks, not Open Locks and Avoid Bad Stuff. The roll...

I didn't make up the example, and I get that it's a bad one since the cook would almost surely not be in the kitchen, but it's the one...

For literally at least the dozenth time, nobody is saying that other variations are wrong. :rolleyes: Sure. LOTS of cook are up at...

You aren't reading to understand, just to respond. Try reading to understand. If your party is going through the forest, wandering...

There's also a big difference to me between "You succeed no matter what you roll..." and "If you get really close to success...".

That is true. In my experience, though, players rarely leave the road to go into the more dangerous wilderness without some sort of...