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Because the players know better than to make the game silly. If they can't do that, then play a game where the DM can force compliance...

This is nonsense. You did it earlier in the thread and now again. You hurl out a criticism that’s unfounded, but you couch it as “I...

Then you have heard completely incorrectly. Like I have no idea how you have come to that conclusion. At all.

Sounds pretty much like what I said, mundane, mundane weird and magic. And if in the case of a situation when it is uncertain where...

Who have you heard this from? Which games did they play? What happened in these sessions?

See, that's the point. There's nothing in the mechanics that necessitates that. I mean, how does a skill check make my rope break...

Can a Dragon fly in an anti-magic sphere or a Giant walk? I don't believe it it's that simple. I would have at least 3 spheres, the...

You did note I was referring to the context of running a historical game right? I bring this up because I have the strong impression...

Do I agree that in order to imagine fantasy worlds you need to be willing to imagine things you know are unrealistic? That's what you...

Okay. I don't think we need a hypothesis to tell us that (a) taste varies and (b) different people know different stuff. I mean, I've...

If there is a strength to Free Kreigspiel I think it is less in the approach itself than in the weaknesses of the typical rpg approach...

So, because the DM is free to narrate anything he or she pleases to justify any result that the mechanics give you, that makes it...

In the passage you quote, @Micah Sweet refers to for me and my table. Which does not address what I asked, which was How can an episode...

FKR advocates have setup a boogie man of rigid mechanics to strike down, assuming a given event must be resolved either entirely through...

This claim--if a rule is broad it necessarily has more corner cases--only applies if the rule is, as I have said many many times...