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I think that would be pretty unrealistic. Everyone knows that pseudo-mediaeval prison guards never drink to excess!

This is the post that I was responding to: Given that most moves/abilities in 5e D&D pertain to combat, and that combat in 5e D&D...

Why wouldn't it? Where is it laid up in RPG heaven that passion and motivation are things that don't matter in RPG action resolution?

I didn't realise that combat - one of the most quintessential D&D-ish things, and the thing that I mostly see talked about whenever I...

Causality gets broken routinely - as in my example, A gets to duck behind cover at the end of their 6 seconds of action, and that...

To be clear: I am not complaining about turn-by-turn combat resolution. I'm just pointing out that it doesn't conform to forwards...

But then why is A frozen in inaction while B performs exactly the same amount of action as A performed?

Why can B not shoot A on B's turn, even though A hasn't yet shut the door?

As I posted, why do I care how some random website defines "fail forward" when I know how the actual RPG invented by one of those who...

Person A moves 20' down a corridor to a doorway with an open door, shoots at Person B who is back near where A started, steps through...

If only a version of D&D had been published that did all this!

Why should I care what some random website says? I'm talking about an actual thing invented by actual game designers and incorporated...

Let me restate my point, then: The 2024 rules tell players to declare actions for their PCs having regard to the social desirability of...

I'll point out people have heart attacks and die, but we don't normally do that in a game. So its not a question of "does it happen"...

I fully accept your preferences. What personally bothers me is the way you leap to conclusions about how these techniques are used in...