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Oh, I’m not surprised by that at all. I’ve never played that way, even in the AD&D days. Sometimes you have to discuss things as players...

People also choose to go along with the pressure to do otherwise at least as often. That's what the dice are for.

The problem is when the discussion involve terms that seemingly cannot have a well defined meaning outside the scope of a given system...

Sure...unless you just haven't been persuaded by the right person, in the right circumstance. Imagining it as a white-room scenario...

D&D is just not the game to mechanically enforce that. Got to rely on the social contractand session 0.

Seems a little reductive. It's not like the GM is seizing control of the PCs left and right in any of these games.

Entertaining though. Big fan of House here.

I don't disagree. The problem comes when you take one really-well-done mechanical element from this game, another from that game, a...

I think we can all call upon stories where this has happened in real life without any magic involved, though. It's quite common for...

Bluntly put: yes. If one's enjoyment of a character in part hinges on that character's possession and-or use of a possibly-fragile...

the magnitude, sure, but how many D&D computer games are there in any given month? It’s not like they were so busy doing stuff for all...

I'll outright say that there are mechanical elements of D&D that I think a large number of other games just handle better. I just don't...

Now I start wondering how confusing it would be if we start using "roll for initiative" as a universal shorthand for starting combat...

No one says that, but I must admit I sometimes get that impression.

Because there's not enough people complaining and comparing D&D to other games and how (almost always) other games handle things better...