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No but it makes it pretty bloody useless to try and get consensus on. It is what it is.

I'm sorry. You are the player. You make the decisions. Sometimes those decisions get you ganked. Don't blame the GM for that shizz.

So long as the players stay within the lines of their PCs, I don't care if they run roughshod over the setting. Once play begins, that's...

I do my best.

That's down to style and preference. I don't yuck other people's yum for no reason. I do levy consequences in my own games that might...

While I don't entirely disagree, this is an area people tend to feel fairly strongly about, so in some cases it may not be so much...

Yup. But being subjective doesn't make the issue any less important to the player, and thus to the table.

Yup, this is why conversations about immersion always flounder in the shallows of opinion.

I know it's a thing, and I try to respect it when I run games. But it really bothers me sometimes. Feels inauthentic.

They're not sure why, IMO, because it's a preference. People feel good about things they like, and bad about things they don't. But...

Yeah, but it's still irritating to me. To my mind, sometimes PCs die, and then you make another one. While they're there you care about...

Yeah, probably not, but I'm of the opinion that a lot of players are more attached to their characters than I like.

I mean, in D&D, the tuning forks are literally the way that magic works across all planes. Why is this "weirdly specific and contrived"?

I've expressed my feeling about backgrounds as a substitute for skills, so I shan't belabor it. But even backgrounds are adding...

Depends how long you expect combat to go. There are D&D adjacents where you might roll 3-5 rolls in a given combat. There are...