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I'm pretty awkward socially (my wife and I are virtually convinced I'm on the spectrum), but I am working on it.

Fair enough. Although, keep in mind that you can also get your existing players to do recruiting for you. About half of my current group...

I don't really know you, but you seem to me to be the sort of person who's able to recruit entirely new players into the hobby. It's...

Yeah, I'm all good with people choosing to block anyone they want for any reason they want, but it's very unfortunate that the board...

I too am locked out, but the thread is still there if I'm logged out, so I presume it is a multi-poster-blocking event. Quite strange...

Yes, that's a fair point. Instead of time pressure, it would be farier to say, resource pressure with time being one possible resource.

In this context, no meaningful consequence of failure is being taken as, "no meaningful difference between success and failure". I roll...

No one's saying roll if the situation can't change. The dispute is whether to roll when change isnt guaranteed. Everyone in this...

In my opinion, the real thing that makes RPGs RPGs isn't "storytelling" but agency -- the ability to do (or try) anything.

In a manner of speaking, I suppose. However, what I keep hearing here is that any situation where after a roll the DM narrates "nothing...

A small difference isn't meaningful and it all has to be taken into account. You can't just ignore the requirement that failure be...

Those all sound like meaningful consequences to me, and one of them is likely to apply to some degree nearly all the time, so to me to...

I partially disagree with the conclusion regarding metagaming, but not sufficiently so that I feel motivated enough to argue about it...

I think its not a VERSUS. Sometimes you need or want player skill, sometimes character skill. For me personally TTRPG is about making...

It doesn't add to the game. Rather, it subtracts from the game in that there's less challenge for the PCs, and by extension the...