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The 1e PHB, DMG and MM.

Just because metagaming is incorporated into the rules and guidance of those games, and you are okay with it happening, doesn't make it...

In your haste to mock me, which you like to do fairly often, you flubbed it. This is what you said... "First is you stop caring about...

The "" around metagaming and the declaration that there is only the game is a statement that metagming doesn't exist. It's okay if you...

Not sure what that has to do with anything under discussion. I feel about 4e almost exactly the opposite of @pemerton . It is the least...

That's a different statement than "didn't give me what I wanted." It's moving the goalposts, though it's more accurate to what I know...

It does. Edit: to elaborate - the connotation of the phrase ‘actually gives me what I wanted’ implies a lack of satisfaction with...

Yes it does.

It actually does imply that, even though I know from prior interactions that you didn't dislike all previous versions of D&D. If you...

Well...it's not really any of those things. I want to frame scenes that inspire the players to take action*, in order to find out what...

It's interesting how many different ways the game was played back then. None of the games I was in would have done those things. I...

So?

Metagaming exists and is antithetical to the kind of game that I enjoy playing and running.

Metagaming is something used at many gamist tables. Not all gamist tables would use it, but I've seen it mentioned here as acceptable...

Rather than characterize Fail Forward as a "recommendable principle in traditional play - with a lower priority than the principle of...