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There was both power and a push in the setup of Stanford due to its setup and the closest thing we have to reproducing it (due to...

Doing encounter map/digital busywork.

Look at the Stanford Prison Experiment or the Milgram Experiment. No amount of rules restrictions will make a jerk into a non-jerk, but...

So we should thus roll out the red carpet and bend over backwards to help them be jerks, rather than lift a finger to do better? No...

That you keep bringing up how much the books empower the GM to be a jerk "if [they are] that kind of person" does not bespeak of such a...

The problem was the inclusion of skills at all.

And the players can (and should) walk away and find a new DM.

And you wonder why I take the view I take on your posts. Should do the respectful and positive thing, not have to--every GM always has...

It's been in the game for 23 years and three editions! That's almost half the game's existence! But it’s based on traditions that go...

But by that same token, the GM is not a unilateral voice either. Despite the many (many...many...) claims to the contrary, the player...

Turned into? I thought that that was the premise of the thread - that the warlock didn't just give all agency to the DM

Most questions about RPGs, especially trad-leaning ones, are ultimately questions about the division of authority between GMs and...

In my experience the biggest problem with the classic Paladin rules was that they told uncertain and new DMs to do bad things. Not to...

It makes exactly as much sense as eliminating the Warlock solely because folks are not champing at the bit to get screwed over. Meaning...

It was necessary to solve another another big problem - DMs screwing with paladins. But there is no reason the player can’t expand on...