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There’s another solution as well. Amend ‘fair use doctrine by judicial interpretation to include all content used to train AI and put...

If I used random encounters, I would roll for the encounter and then set the scene for the encounter that's about to happen in. "You...

Yes--the fact that things have explicit examples and definitions does not preclude it from being jargon. It's usually a characteristic...

Yes, I agree. But this isn't what the roll is doing. Compare three cases: 1) A master thief with fixed world abilities would get a...

Cool example. I agree that the narrative mechanics are very useful in running a no prep game, and I've ported them over before in order...

Different strokes for different folks. In my games if the characters are breaking into a house I'll know who's there, whether there are...

Not to an extent. It's completely true. You can in fact play D&D like that. This is in my opinion most of what makes D&D so popular...

I've come across mountain lion scat (bits of rabbit fur in obviously fresh poo) and I'm sure the cat knew we were there. Been in...

So the lockpick roll… I’d use one roll to determine the outcome overall. I wouldn’t require a lockpick and then a stealth roll to pick...

There have been many threads over the years that were longer, not just 3. :P

True to an extent. But then when I give a concrete example of picking the lock and the quantum cook, I get "What the goal and...

Yes. He makes up what was there all along that existed independently of the PCs. Nothing is made up FOR THE PCs. The cook is both...

Several years ago my mother and a bunch of her girlfriends(about 10 in total) went on a women's retreat to a ranch in Central California...

What type of rolls would you use to resolve conflicts in D&D? I assume you're not just talking about combat. Opposed skill rolls? What...

As an example: ‘Acting under fire’ is a name for an approach not for an intended goal. As I said, Terribly named.