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It is poor DMing for producing the kind of gameplay I enjoy. I will accordingly not enjoy a game where someone runs it like that. That...

Let me try something new. In the games where these fail forward techniques are properly implemented (which exclude all variants of D&D...

Do you think deciding to read something should in itself determine what that something means?

No, I don't like a consequence of an action that has consequences not directly tied to the action taken. In your climb check you...

I'm not seeing how this is all that different from a quantum superposition. Until the dice are rolled and result in known (i.e. the cat...

@The Firebird explicitly claimed his statements as personal opinion. Turns out we're all allowed to do that, even if other people don't...

The rune example is exactly what I have in mind here.

Ok, now that you are done with the ad hominem argument against me, maybe you can try to adress the substance of the matter? My posts in...

Go back to the Aristotelian idea I set up a while back...the right amount of improvising is 'some'. If you're improvising everything, it...

We understand how it works, we just don't care for it.

I don't think this is right. It is meaningfully different because if the character improves in an unrelated skill, then in one case they...

I'm not sure citing persons who self-identified simulationists reject as having mischaracterised their playstyle is a particularly good...

I think this shows a similar idiosyncrasy to mine with roll-under. There's acknowledgement that it's not born of logic, but...

I think the contention stems from the fact that not only in their view should players affect the world in a Watsonian/diegetic manner...

I do think that more tables could probably benefit from the GM utilising more passive checks, automatic success/failure, etc. Take 10...