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Haggling is still quite common now depending on where you are. For that matter, haggling is still standard in the US for certain products.

Yes and no. Yes they encounter kings, monsters, and situations of note at FAR greater rates than the average Joe. In that regard...

The DM is more of a repair man in those situations. The vast majority of the time, nothing is broken so the DM just reacts to the...

This is one of those glorious kitchen-sink threads, where everything gets talked about at once rather than in fifteen different threads...

It doesn't happen in modern stores for the most part, but it was a common practice in the time period range that D&D is set in. That's...

Not really. I played WoW in vanilla. You generally saw the elites and other high level things way in advance of aggroing them and...

You don't get to tell us how we get to run our games, man. We are telling you that you can run into CR 20 stuff. Remember that running...

While the appearance of a duck can seem to be random, ducks always have a purpose and it is often a sinister one. Anatidaephobia is no...

🍿 I would almost subscribe to see @mearls return to run D&D.

Okay. That's not how we do it. Any area, including a city, has the potential for CR 20+ stuff. The farther out you go, the more...

And I'm correct one hundred and crazy percent of the time! Eh, it's not that I'm right. It's more about the wrongness of others.

It's fine to disagree. But I'm not calling anything the "one true way", I'm defining my own usage of the terms. Which I said myriad...

On a slightly different point, this comment helped me identify more clearly the problem I have with fail forward in a more grounded...

Plenty of people have talked about "the players do a [hard or soft] move so as GM I respond with a [hard or soft based on what the...