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I think the point here is that the GM has to agree with the stakes first - it's not that the roll is made and then on a success the...

Yes, this is what I did. I said “this roll isn’t so much about making it to the top as it is about how fast you can do so because the...

No. In D&D combat, no one decides who lives and who dies. A mechanical process is used, and all the participants are agreed to go along...

I swear to god you either have to be doing this on purpose to be difficult or somehow failing to read a jillion replies to you on how...

Yeah wasn’t including you there, just grousing about how often I see people who should know better making assumptions not that different...

I see this in games that explicitly have metacurreny that allow it (Fabula Points in Fabula Ultima come to mind, FATE as well maybe?)...

Right. I post about Apocalypse World and (less frequently) Dungeon World based on my knowledge of them. I've thought a lot about AW...

Also the non-ghost player is decidedly not “fit!” The expected outcome is generally “eaten by ghost.” For some additional context to...

Have you ever described a player, in D&D, who rolls a successful attack as having decided that they hit their oppoinent? Have you ever...

No, the GM decided based on the idea the player expressed as the hope of their character… which was reasonable and didn’t contradict...

Edit: early post dupe

If the wished for result was contradictory to what had been established or was otherwise nonsensical. Real life isn’t a game with...

I don't agree with this. No. They stated what they hoped it would say. Then that hope was put to the test of a dice roll. And the player...

No. Here is the post: That doesn't say that on a failure they would have been incapacitated. It just described some possibilities, by...

If an important element of someone's RPG play is for the players (i) to gain information from the GM about the setting and situation, so...