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I agree that these things are vesitigial now, and have been vestigial for a long time (certainly back to 4e, and probably 3e to a large...

Existing things redefined literally: Dust of Disappearance ('Oh, it's gone') Turn Undead ('Brains...') Cloudkill ('Take that, you dirty...

Some spells: Fold Person (2nd) Find the Bath (6th) Fish (9th)

John Harper had a good diagram to illustrate this "jigsaw pieces" approach: The Mighty Atom

I understand all of this. I was trying to characterise what strict TR looks like in response to someone who broadly denied it existed.

Yes. It doesn't have to. The GM in my example has been my regular GM for a long time and isn't normally like that (hence why I remember...

This came up a few times in discussions of 4e: what's the DC for a Diplomacy check to allow another character to spend a healing surge...

I think this illustrates how task resolution, in combination with no sense that the GM is obliged to honour the intent, is a recipe for...

For me roleplaying is quite a personal thing that you do with friends. I've been to loads of cons for wargaming and MtG, some of which...

It's interesting you pick those examples. In every example, the leader has a specific task (or set of tasks) that need to be completed...

Why? I realize that this has been the general sort of consensus for years, but, why? Why not vote? Why must the decision be the DM's...

I have read you at various points as saying that D&D does feature rolling for intent instead of rolling for effect. What I'm saying...

Golden Age 2: Gold Harder

There's a ton of player-defined stakes games out there (including one I wrote) and they all tend to have a big discussion about this...

It's nice to see the courts speed running to that Cyperpunk corp-o owned dystopia that I've always read about.