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I don't doubt either is true, but I would say that is probably unusual. I tried a Monty Python quote on a 35-ish nerd I know recently...

I'm a bit put off by this, personally. The level of staggeringly broad assumption here is truly remarkable. Just a real "everyone who...

Not really imho. Cleric is a complicated set of fictional, mythohistorical, and mostly-Abrahamic religious concepts rolled into one...

In order to make logistics matter you need to strip out a heck of a lot of spells, and turn the game low magic. People tend to get very...

I think they can, actually. I agree - but that's because it rarely comes up in things like Critical Role or BG3 or even discussions of...

I think that's optimistic, but if they do half-arse it, I hope you're right.

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I don't make assumptions about the system's intentions. I take one that's close and make it more like what I want (generally, more sim...

Oh I was talking from a designer perspective primarily. A designer should understand what they're doing and why re: fiction and...

Yeah page 154:

Interestingly, this is exactly the opposite of what player skill means in the context of most discussions about it.

I get that you just jumped in without reading the thread and we all do that sometimes, but I politely suggest you read the thread...

Those are two separate issues though. The fiction can need it in a non-simulationist game (indeed I'd argue Shadowdark is primarily...

Yeah Shadowdark (bought it, still haven't read it, I will eventually!) does this right? It presumably has to in order to make the torch...

My favorite OSR specifically removes darkvision and the like from PC species, but leaves it for the monsters. Light is everyone's...