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Mmm, happy to leave this topic, but a point I do want to raise is that all of my positions start from a sadly unusual intolerance for...

I am really not an OSR guy, and really don't have a lot of background in their procedures. I don't know that I've ever used an encounter...

I simply don't see a conflict. If you're using something other than the outcome prompted by the rules to draw conclusions (i.e...

If you're going to flatly reject the premise, I can't engage. My point is that if you treat setting truths as encoded in the rules...

What an odd thing to say. Moving on I guess.

This happens to me all the freakin' time in real life. It's getting to the point where I don't even want to go to fancy dress balls...

I think you're conflating two different things here, @Fenris-77. I would object that whatever the rules model is true, not the other...

I agree with your point broadly, but I think we would call exactly the opposite things in that situation "meta-gaming." XD Knowing the...

I think I disagree. I suspect it's got much more to do with how variable the costs and impacts are between the group collective total of...

Is this a problem if that's obvious? Like, definitely there's some issues with forced party splitting that constrain adventure design...

I do think this is the source of the scope problem; is the game about gambling and spinning up reactions to the results of that gambling...

Which makes having skills (or learning) worthless. And it’s far from democratic - the person who owns the AI controls the skills, and...

One factor that's relevant here, I do feel like the been a shift towards a gameplay loop that calls for individual character actions in...

I don't really think so. I'm my 3e days, there was a lot of stuff like making the barbarian Large and tying ourselves to them to deal...

That's hopefully what the monsters are for. A sufficient scary world should push players away from that, but frankly if that's what the...