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Can't speak to Conan but in Frodo's case it's because his captors were, collectively, idiots. Same is true of many a James Bond...
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If you would prefer to imagine me yelling at you for choosing to define something your own way, that's also OK. Go wild. You have a...
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The relevant feature for me is, to put it simply, character development. Wa-a-ay more of my characters' development comes through...
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In which case yes, they're hosed. Roll up new characters. That they all got captured without even one managing to avoid it, however...
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I think it might hinge on the level of in-fiction contrivance required to keep making things happen where logic says nothing should.
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Thing is, a conflict-neutral or low-no stakes event now may - or may not - have all kinds of consequences down the road. And as you...
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When the players do stuff with their PCs, no matter how unimportant it might seem to the GM, the fiction is not "entirely unchanged".
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The rules are important, but the fiction matters more. It's not collaborative storytelling. It's a game where the rules don't take...
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Okay. That's not how we do it. Any area, including a city, has the potential for CR 20+ stuff. The farther out you go, the more...
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Before the first expansion, the human city in WoW - Stormwind - reachable at level 1, contained a black dragon and their minions that...
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I am beginning to think that despite all this great art, I should proceed directly to Dukk Borg.
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In the distant past when I designed worlds, there were indeed safer areas and more dangerous areas. And not at all because of level...
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:sigh: Yes you are pedantically correct. I still enjoy the stories that emerge from play. Better?
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