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Bad things happening more often to the unskilled?!?! What kind of insanity is that?!?! Sure… because attracting attention is a risk of...

What I'm speaking to is what sort of fiction different approaches are most well suited to. Task resolution is much more well suited to...

What I was trying to say is that the play techniques and play loops we commonly associate with D&D and similar games do an excellent job...

So now we have more hit points because we're tough and get a saving throw because we're tough? Why doesn't my tough character get a save...

See, from the point of view of common sense, this doesn't make sense to me. Either the sword cuts me, or it doesn't. (But even if it...

Your last sentence contains an ambiguity: you use "causes the cook to be there" without clarifying whether you mean causes, in the...

I've run two free-form murder mysteries. One I adapted from an old Traveller module; I wrote up the 3 player characters and played the...

Right, so to kind of give some historical perspective: you can look at the evolution of RPG design and practice as a process of both...

I stated my view: that D&D surprise rules, from AD&D and from 5e, involve retrofitting a fictional explanation of a situation whose...

Schroedinger's wind? Instead there is quantum colour-blending; quantum sun-reflecting; and quantum sneezing.

For what? I'm talking about the role of the GM in creating, guiding, etc the fiction. It captures that well enough.

No. White Plume Mountain is GM-created. (Or analogous to.) But play in WPM using classic D&D need not be GM-driven/GM-centred play...

And thus the exhausting, essential conservatism. There's no looking for a path towards realizing any sort of play goal, there's just...

But a burglary check clearly does involve other people - all the people who are in, or might be in, the place being burgled. As I...

It's nothing to do with a straw man. I'm simply pointing out that, as many RPGers in the late 70s and early 80s noticed, that D&D is...