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The entire presumption that "if you portray something evil in your work of creative fiction, and don't issue a disclaimer about how you...

I don't understand these situations you envisage. First it's a complex multi-part conflict such that we want to break out the skill...

I think this would be fine, if the proponents of the playstyle didn’t denigrate anything they perceived as outside the playstyle...

To be fair, while not difficult to get sodium bromide, this guy had to special order it off the internet, and it was likely labeled as a...

I have fairly experienced players that I’ve played with for a while. When we had session zero for a sandbox homebrew campaign with a...

One is visible to the players, the other is not. One is set, the other is not. This sounds more like a quality of yours rather than...

The question is demonstrably absurd. If there were real causality the GM would be unable to break it - because the outcome would be down...

Ouija board roleplaying. I'm not moving the planchette, the causality of the fiction simply has an undeniable momentum of its own!

There is no causality in fiction. There is only the fiction of causality, which - of course - can be anything the author chooses which...

Yes, but for the purposes of the discussion, that's what was being discussed. These posts are like if the discussion was labeled...

It's going to get pretty tiresome if you just keep posting 'I don't like this playstyle' again and again.

Obviously. The 'you' includes the players.

Maybe don't use a lot of skill challenges then.

No I have shown that I decided, not 'the fiction' or 'the simulated world'. A man kicks a ball. It's a goal! A man kicks a ball. It...

A skill challenge is one way of establishing latent scenes/situations, and then activating/triggering them, and progressing from one to...