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I've certainly used it in 3.5, PF, 4e, and 5e. It's fairly trivial to use. "Oh, you failed your arcana check to identify the runes...

Because games are designed so that the players are having fun. How do they have fun? typically by having their characters encounter...

In my game I don't bother asking them, because if they fail a roll to dragon fear, they will tell me how their character is reacting on...

This is true. There some interesting ways to still give some agency to players. If a PC is affected by something that robs them of...

Oh look, that goalpost wizzed past again. Not sure if its a US goalpost or a UK one though. I am pretty sure they asked for you to...

Life is a highway, I'm gonna ride it all night long.

The problem I'm having with your way of playing is that there are billions of NPCs out there and I cannot know more than a very small...

It's not mind control to hit my character with a sword but - unless the blow puts me down for the count or worse - it is mind control to...

In fairness, I've DMed and played with one or two players who seemed constitutionally incapable of doing anything the least bit gonzo...

Neither am I. :) When someone posts some direct-quoted rules text and that text says X, it's not my fault if I read it as saying X even...

The problem with Gygax was that he was very schizophrenic in his writing, often writing passages and rules that were in complete...

While I agree with your point about mechanics being more neutral, I detest rules that work one way for PCs and another for NPCs. I'm a...

With the bolded, I agree. I don't need mechanics to force me to do it. It doesn't play nice with the "no companion left behind" types...

One of the main argument I have seen against this is that it is immersion breaking. The DM analogy do not work on this. Another with...

You can't just arbitrarily change the scope. The player has only 1 PC and has lost control over 100% of the characters he controls...