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You know how I feel about doing something in an RPG because it'll make a good story (unless it happen to be a personality trait of the...

I always want more content, but I simply have no faith that a publically-traded company is going to put enough effort and resources into...

Using dice helps people overcome their natural inclination to prioritize their own self-interest over what the character would plausibly do.

Which brings the FTL (generally replicable in most settings) back to technology.

What if they are sure what to do, but what that is runs against what the PC would plausibly do, by the metrics I've outlined above? By...

For me, responsible use of that power is simply to have every NPC act according to their personality, capabilities, and knowledge, under...

And why can't that apply to the PCs? The Player can believe that the PC(s) might be plausibly, but not definitely, persuaded by the...

Same for me That said, any example given in this thread will be subjective to a certain extent.

How is a successful Persuasion check by the PCs not "mind control"?

What counts as "more recent"? I've read the newer Thrawn books, Dark Disciple, Catalyst, Ahsoka, Lords of the Sith, the Rise of Empire...

If Hope and Fear happen in the game for diagetic reasons, I'm prepared to think of them as diagetic mechanics. That's my (personal) line.

That last is why it wouldn't work for me, but that doesn't mean it isn't a working system that does what it intends to do.

In theory, I suppose it is possible. In practice, I cannot currently think of a reason why we would want this. Even if we don't worry...

That is definitely a subjective call. I am very familiar with TOR and never encountered any issue with it's travel rules. Encountering...

Yeah...I don't know. There's some weird epistemology going on there.