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'Hello a strange man with a time machine gave me $10 million dollars, I would now like to ask the tax authorities what my liability is...

If there's a bunch of other full prescience 6 year olds unleashed in the timeline with you who also want to change stuff, nothing will...

Oops! Yes you're right, it really does come up more often than I think 🙂

Well, this is a 1 in 1,296 chance to get to the fourth d6. Personally I have a good enough grasp of probabilities that I would not be...

OK. I had read the poster I was responding to as saying that 'low HP paranoia' was an advantage of D&D style HP systems in the sense of...

Someone attacks me with a longsword and there is a 1 in 8 chance that I take an additional d8 damage. A d8 does an average of 4.5...

You can put characters into a position of being 'one or two hits away from zero', sure, but there are a lot more ablative hit points to...

Well, that might extend the 'level one' type experience for another level or so, but I don't think it would have any significant effect...

I agree that's a cool thing at low levels. However, there is a big 'but' here, because once you get to mid levels (or even earlier in...

I cannot comment on anyone's particular D&D game. It's quite possible to run games in a Narrativist even if they are supported by the...

So the colour text, but not the content. You are so on the money here it's unreal, this is definitely what is happening, the...

I think you and I have different understandings of what 'creating the bulk of the fiction' looks like. Note that all of these game...

I present a dynamic situation where some ball is about to roll down some hill and ask players what their characters are going to do...

This is only true of some trad play. In other trad play like Vampire (and increasingly I suggest modern D&D) this would be absolutely...

Fair enough. For me, the past 15 years of discussion here have helped me to try multiple new systems at my tables, and identify what...