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I don't know which people you are saying do this. It's not something that I've experienced. I posted links to examples upthread - not...

I don't follow why risk has to equate to risk of death. What about other sorts of risk that inhere in physical altercation - eg being...

But we're not talking about what is an end for, or what is valuable to, a sapient being. We're talking about what makes for satisfying...

Plenty of spells and features in 2014 broke bounded accuracy. God forbid the Fighter finally get a feature that does. Which leads to my...

Nah. I have no particular opinion on the '24 fighter, but the 4e fighter is absolutely the high point of fighter design. It has a...

To me, this still seems to involve a bit of a non-sequitur - because a physical altercation can involve meaningful stakes other than...

The statement that the only thing that matters in an an RPG is whether or not you die is a very foreign one to me. For me, the core of a...

This is a common sentiment when this topic comes up, but what it really reveals is the shallowness of the campaign in question, or the...

This is an empirical conjecture. My experience doesn't bear it out. Yes, agreed.

Yes - Thor modified MouseGuard to play a bit more like classic D&D.

Sounds like Torchbearer works alot like MouseGuard. In which case the tension comes from knowing the stakes beforehand, and the...

Defeat in combat doesn't have to mean death. I know that in D&D that's the default; but it's possible to narrate being dropped to zero...

The example I gave wasn't fudging dice: rather, making choices like "If the PC has AC 20, then give the NPC a +15 attack bonus" or "If...

Whether or not it is cheating would depend on the agreed rules. But the GM making the risks, the stakes, and the consequences be...

I recently read something online that said that a D&D GM is not really bound by any rules: for instance, they're not bound in any...