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You can find or create subsystems if you want to take a D&D-style game farther. I do it all the time

sure, i'll try find and reread that post in a moment, but just because they have been made to take an action doesn't mean they have to...

There are games where the stakes involved in a roll require the player to act in accordance, and rationalize, a decision that the player...

I once had my character's plans foiled and was subsequently killed by another party member whom I had earlier betrayed and who had...

Honestly, for me, assuming a D&D-like game, if I don't have at least one character die on me (as a player), I feel like I wasn't really...

when do the dice ever actually say something like 'you like this NPC' though? yes, they say things like 'they make a convincing argument...

Because there are some (many) games that you don't want to play in an immersive fashion. To me, those kinds of complaints feel somewhat...

I don't use TIBFs (they don't exist in my version of 5e. People make up their own versions of that stuff for themselves at my table.

I'm one of those crazy people who has no qualms about bad things happening to my PC. I'll play them honestly to the setting as long as...

I think that’s actually a big part of this. That ownership that we all can't help but feel toward our characters. That bit of self...

That's not surprising yourself. That's you making a decision in improv.

Method acting isn't the only form of acting, nor is it inherently a superior form of acting.

Because they enjoy other kinds of immersion, or immersion isn't a priority for them at all?

The term 'character destroyed' is pretty loaded, verging on outright purple prose. Probably not a useful term for civilized discussion. :D

I strongly dislike using either meta-currency or XP as carrots. I'd much rather go the stick approach, where a penalty is leveled on...