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No. Next question? :)

None of that counts as ironclad, just designer intent (and after publishing, really). And as you say, it's just default, which means...

Yeah, the problem with Ezekiel's argument is that he's assuming there's no price for supporting the player's investment in important...

I don't trust WotC's current design philosophy enough to trust them with anything new, but I could get behind reprints of their older...

Hence the advice in the book explaining what using these rules risks. Way better IMO than just saying "no". No table is required to use...

That isn't a simple question. Let me try an allegory; would you houserule a board game in the middle of play if a player wasn't enjoying...

I have to agree. There's no ironclad reason social skills can't work on PCs. Just common (but not universal) custom.

Is it "not supposed to happen" in D&D? That implies there are things that are and aren't "supposed to happen" in D&D. Where do you...

Fair enough. Good to know where the lines are.

And like I just said, I'm sure that's how you are seeing it. I don't. Why do you assume that the player doesn't value that...

I certainly believe that it comes across that way for you, but please speak for yourself.

Do you believe in different rules for NPCs and PCs?

A regular basis??! Martyrs are known because they are exceptional, no? As for the rest, people overestimate their willpower all the...

Ok, so I (mostly) agree with pretty much everything you've written here*, especially these parts: "The GM doesn’t own the PCs." "It...

Do you carefully consider every one of those actions for every creature on every turn?