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So, there are basically 4 places we could block any given action in a roleplaying game: Intent: a character wants to do something...

Yes, we know. Yet others may find it desirable to do so. That you don't is both clear and also irrelevant to that. And that concern...

That would be the conservative argument, yes.

That certainly makes it sound like the “purpose of a role-playing game” is a bunch of in-character dialogue and thespianism; that might...

I've posted several examples upthread. Here's a repost from #3352, of a typical sequence of social interactions from my TB2e game. It...

Just commenting on this part of your post: in Apocalypse World (and as per the rules text that I posted upthread), Be a fan of the...

Of course it doesn't. D&D never does because, as we've established, D&D isn't a simulation game. The mechanics are always divorced...

Why does the label matter? Do you think fail without retry is a useful part of your repertoire as a D&D GM? Then use it. Do you think...

To me, this is a pretty odd claim. Particularly given that I know some of the processes that you use: eg rolling some dice to see who...

Is this based on your reading of the text, or on the opinions of others (eg @Maxperson) who haven't read the text. Like, what is...

I think this is separate from the issue of rolling dice. I'm sure in the history of human beings there have been cases where a single...

Obviously the universe doesn't. But some people go through life without losing their precious stuff, so it's not as if it would be...

I thought it was clear, from @TwoSix's post, that the runes were runes of demon summoning. The PC discovered as much by trying to read...

When I do stuff like this in most games I run right now, it’s a “pay a cost to resist or succumb” type situation. Blades gives me Stress...

Well no. They don’t tell you anything because DnD is in no ways a sim game. And longsword isn’t vex. Vex grants you advantage. Long...