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Two friends are arguing about where to go for dinner. They toss a coin to resolve the dispute. That doesn't mean that it doesn't matter...

As far as flashbacks are concerned, these seem to be rather ubiquitous in RPGing. For instance, here's a post from a couple of weeks ago...

The GM is assessing the cost of doing the thing that's worn you down between when you starting planning for the score and the current...

It’s a currency, but not one that’s fully meta like idk Hope and Fear from Daggerheart or Fabula Points or whatever. It’s certainly less...

The orc chieftain, makes a final plea to the PC's explaining that the attack on their homestead was made by his younger and ambitious...

Huh? Why does comparing the roll of a die in a RPG to the toss of a coin imply that it doesn't matter? I don't follow that ostensible...

This is what I'm saying is not true in most of my RPGing. When characters fight; or when a character tries to pick a lock; there is...

Maybe a Typhoon Dragon (Tun Mi Lung) or similar? The way I'm thinking it makes sense that a typhoon dragon might be summoned from the...

Tossing a coin has a reason: it could be indifference (as you suggest), or fairness, or (in Two Face's case) a profound commitment to...

Given that we're talking about the rules of the game, and how declared actions are resolved, I don't think that PC vs NPC is a very...

In the context of flashbacks, they represent the stress of making things line up perfectly so they’re just-so in the moment now. That...

I was wanting to make a post in this thread, and your post helped me focus my thoughts. To my mind, a lot of games that others...

D&D has no intended playstyle and everyone plays it! It can do Doctor Who, Critical Role, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Lord of the Rings...

Generally, I think this is more a player approach situation. There’s a large contingent of TTRPG tables that think of every game as...

If you want to play Movies / Shows Star Wars with folks who are all onboard and into working together to craft exciting scenes mediated...