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Well if a hypothetical you were interested in that type of stuff happening then you could create characters and setting that made it far...

They just give up the XP

Well, "setting logic" of course depends on how the setting is written. For instance, the setting logic of Middle Earth or Dragonlance or...

I would say that there is significant crossover in the way some people run D&D (mostly younger gamers I've come across) and Monster of...

He's joining our table, our ways. If I were joining another table I'd acclimatize to their style of play. We have a reward system in...

I think this sort of pawn stance with a splash of colour thrown over it is very common. And is what a typical D&D module/AP encourages...

I mentioned it upthread that D&D sadly trains players to act in ways that many DMs feel is out of character for their creations. Lanefan...

How can D&D be both a simulationist game and worship at the altar of the hp god?

I disagree. They're very different from what a sandbox GM is doing in trad games.

I can get that. I just think anyone who's willing to deal with D&D style hit points shouldn't get too strident talking about gamism as...

Nor are you forced to play a RPG that has rules like those found in Classic Traveller or Pendragon.

I disagree on both. You're framing player motivation as something inherently suspect. That because players express themselves through a...

Moral: pertaining to how people should treat one another (perhaps also themselves; perhaps non-human animals; perhaps "the world"; etc)...

Conflict across a moral line. Here's an example of conflict that is not across a moral line: do we go overland, risking frostbite, or...

At bare minimum in order to get to the point where we can even roll the dice we need to establish the following: fictional positioning...