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See, but here's the problem. What do you do when the player rejects the DM's narrative. When the player finds the DM's post hoc...

Players declare actions to confer benefits on their PCs all the time. The runes case wasn't mechanically easier than any other...

Right, which is why suggestions of "cheating" or "get-out-of-jail-free cards" is irrelevant to this discussion. Something done...

Aren't you a proponent of abstraction? I take it, then, that you don't have @Maxperson's objection to the Cunning Expert PC build element.

IOW, you don't want simulationist mechanics. Why is that hard to admit? You want the simulation to come from the DM. Great. No...

Surely this only makes sense as a concern in terms of challenge base play? All play changes the narrative and the current state of the...

You are asserting that you can tell me how your rogue climbed the wall. But you can't! All you can say is that, because the rogue is a...

What handholds did your rogue use? Which fingers? What sorts of grips? How did they use their legs, vs their arms and shoulders? I've...

The GM calls for a WIS (Perception) check. The player fails, and so their PC fails to notice something. The GM narrates that as "While...

How is the timespan longer? What time passes in the imagined world if a step in our resolution establishes something narrated to be ten...

See, I generally prefer more simulation that D&D offers, which is one reason why I play and enjoy Burning Wheel and Torchbearer 2e...

I don't mind inconsistency--when people aren't making demands or expecting something that everyone else must live with. When...

The script used by the builders of Moria is explicitly called runic in the text. The Book of Marzabul is written in at least two...

I think there's a distinction between "how you like your game" and what a good objective description of that game are. I don't have any...

The question makes assumptions about the place that I did not have in mind. That seems like a reasonable possibility for some imaginary...