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I have to just note that there are plenty of people who, effectively, play RPGs as single-character board games where they get to define...

Sometimes the desires we have are strings that don't meet in the middle. But I just wanted to note that if you want someone to be able...

You don't think undead erasing your memories is supernatural?

I've always had it that level-draining undead are in fact messing with your memory such that you forget your recent training and field...

BEFORE you've got the XP. You train for 1st level (before coming into play) then go out and earn xp by putting that training to use...

i'd say no, they don't want to be scared, a game is not a movie and people engage with them in different ways, what i believe that...

To have fun playing a game that includes the tropes of the desired genre without necessarily getting personally uncomfortable.

Additionally, at a table that cares about consent, triggering a phobia to the point of anxiety or fear would probably be off the table...

You both are right, for your preferred style, horror is hard. It's not about making characters scared, anxious, uncomfortable. It's...

I suppose, but I'm not sure you need to restrict it further with XP when downtime, and access to training materials / teachers, can also...

Not necessarily. They're an abstraction, sure, but an abstraction of something very real in the fiction: becoming better at what you do...

Fair enough. In those situations my primary focus is on emotion-based decision making, not reason-based. Also I really don't like...

They almost certainly do, but whether their plan matches the kind of game the GM wants to run / play is another thing. Like: I played...

I suspect that's a one way relationship. A more consistent TTRPG isn't going to make the fiction more consistent. I stepped off the...

I am not. "Don't Prep Plots, Prep Situations" is solid advice. Definitely. Though you can obviously record it, much of what's happening...