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The conversation that is play. Like....that's literally how the game works. It is NOT simply "success on a search roll"--whatever that...

Like I said game rules don't prevent you using loaded dice for your rules. And how is anyone going to know to ban them afterwards? Are...

But this has nothing to do with @pemerton's objection? You're saying "you've been surprised". Of course. But that is irrelevant to the...

"I did badly enough at singing that made an awful caterwauling somewhere near where a guard was and now he's come to investigate? I...

No. You're taking the existing fiction "We are on a mission to find the Desert Rose" and taking a giant steaming dump on it. You are...

And I am saying that you are clearly using the social contract of any game that allows player authorship for toilet paper. And if you...

I just thought I'd clarify some of this. We have two different modes of Game Mastering being discussed here. The Trad Simulationist and...

There is nothing "illogical" about a guard approaching a singing person. There is nothing "non-diegetic" about a guard approaching a...

Okay, finally here. So: the game I know is Dungeon World. In this post, I will not be talking about anything except Dungeon World. I...

Obviously the rules of the game tell the GM to do do something and the GM chose something that was plausible for the fiction of the...

I've only ever come across "goal and approach" as an idea for doing action resolution in 5e D&D. I don't know how it works. "Intent and...

I'm not sure it's that strange. The posters who object to connecting the consequence to a player-side dice roll take it for granted that...

Just to step in, I'd add one in circumstances where it was appropriate to the game and style I was running the game in. To illustrate...

As I said to you quite a few pages ago when you were talking about exactly this example you can be a deliberate jerk. You can also bring...

I've never really understood this mindset and that's as someone who's often described as a killer referee. The referee should never...