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As noted by @Old Fezziwig two pages ago, Ron Edwards for Sorcerer.

I don't really see how killing minions is much different than a high level AD&D Fighter cutting down a dozen kobolds in one combat round...

People tend to avoid having to lose progress, so they tend to not want to die. What's even the alternative, really, presuming have a...

Re: TPKs I think the most straighforward solution is to just "reload" the game instead of ending it. There's no inherent virtue in...

As a gamist and a person who enjoys some grittiness I feel a True TPK (as you define it) should be an available option on the table but...

I'm not sure what you mean by "true TPK". If the PCs are all defeated in battle, that doesn't have to mean the end of the campaign. For...

If the campaign has a "save the world" premise, and the PCs all die, then it seems to me that the world hasn't been saved! Bringing in...

Would anyone be having this discussion about the morality of minion mechanics if you didn't also dislike minion mechanics for...

I think this shows the force of @chaochou's post upthread: if the "plot" is maintained, and new PCs are brought in to try and carry it...

Because you asked me upthread about my understanding of railroading, I just wanted to make an observation about this. The difference of...

That tells me nothing, in theory that could also show more demand, so they keep a larger stock. My supermarket has way more milk in...

Except that, as demonstrated by numerous posts in this thread, it clearly did. The Dark Sun mechanical baseline, i.e. the thing that...

Yeah, this is what I posted upthread. To be fair to @Charlaquin, I think she's imagining a baseline that is not set internally to the...

I have two fathers in my recently started DH game who Lined out violence to children righh at the start. I’ve had that be Veiled before...

Thanks for the reply. That's interesting, and makes sense.