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I'm not sure I understand the confusion. The two options for this feature, Hunter's Target and Swift Feet both have "Once you use this...

Thanks. To my reading, those posters had in mind something like an adventure path or preordained story. They worried about failing a...

I'd probably lean more toward a unique mechanic, more like "pick a list of monsters, here's the point cost for each one from your daily...

This is just confusion about fandom vs. sports teams, right? We're mixing up "be interested in" and "root for?" Mostly this feels like...

I'm not entirely sold that we can't do a summoning class honestly, with actual stat blocks and all, but I definitely don't think it...

To a degree, this is the core of the difference between Conjure animals (2014), conjure animals (2024) and summon animals. 2014 created...

I'm suddenly getting a massive whitespace appended to the end of every post in the mobile view. I haven't seen anything like it before...

I assumed you're pointing at something here like my frustration with stories where two characters who ostensibly share a goal fail to...

So fail-forward is about railroading? Of course that's not what you mean, but pursuing dramatic narrative has been observed to be in...

(Emphasis mine.) Alternatively, 'instead of that flowing into new directions, as the party leverage other abilities and everything...

I have heard folk saying they have felt an aversion to doing things that could invoke fail-forward rolls, because they worry about the...

the quoted sentence continues beyond the part you bolded you know: it's not asking for pure logical constructs of rationality, it's...

I have absolutely now words for how much I hate this notion. It has poisoned almost all modern fiction. If you look at the great works...

Yeah, I didn't find the idea of exploration of system sitting alongside exploration of genre compelling either, but I still think the...

I don't think what you're talking about here fits into the same category either. I'm not totally sure I buy the case, but that seems...