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If nothing else this thread might have sold me on watching the Superman film.

dice result meta-knowledge has never really been something that's quite sat right with me on certain kinds of checks, people like to...

We have a formal HR process, starting with verbal warnings, escalating to written warnings, before the final sanction, which is ejection...

Normally the PC just sort of hangs out in the background. Only rarely (and out of necessity) would another player roleplay them...

Or, he can, you know, just accept that he doesn't need to be the final word in absolutely everything in the game. That's not required...

As the DM . . . no you don't. But, IMO, that is being a pretty poor player and friend, and it's a huge "red flag" for me. I mean, if...

Well . . . How much fidelity a group is paying an established setting is also a "dial" that can be tuned! If the DM and the play group...

I suggest that anyone who has experience of being a manager or leader in the real world knows that it is done with consent. In fact...

Catching up on the thread, but can I just check what you mean here? I agree that if the premise is explicitly 'you are all dwarves' or...

Unless they want to play a Tortleman! Those people can just get the hell out, no discussion.

I'm sorry if I've bummed you out. But yes, I do think that a GM that thinks something like "Eberron but with Tolkien races only" is a...

I was coming to say that this is another way I handle it when I remember to (old habits and the fun of the secret roll cup die hard)...

I agree that as a player, if you agree to a curated setting, you're being problematic if you later on try to renegotiate that curation...

Wow. Apparently I don't friend correct for Enworld! Proof @EzekielRaiden was right. If you were here to lecture about unsafe social...

I like to use something I called a Deferred Conflict. Basically, instead of having the player roll the dice when they take the action...